Using an economy of means, Rodin has rendered a simple warming-up exercise. The figure pulls in her raised leg with both hands in order to flex her knee.

The exercise is not part of a dance but preparatory to it. In making his "snapshot in clay" from which this plaster was molded, Rodin created a compact form with most of its mass and complexity on the top of the figure.

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