The work depicts Jane Avril, one of the most celebrated dancers in Paris, and Toulouse-Lautrec's lover, intent on dancing the cancan. The
unleashed dance Toulouse-Lautrec was fascinated by trying to follow the movements of the body drawing of the dancer, the occasion gave him the opportunity to further enliven his dynamic style, which had already been directed to a radical synthesis.
In fact, just look at the picture and you realize that the artist was not important to complete the composition, but set the clean lines that define the environment in which the ballet dancer, this, in turn, is placed in emphasize the face, so melancholy and sad, tracing briefly the rest of the body. Yet
are the arms and legs scurrying vigorous shaking her skirts and petticoat.
the background, in a stage just mentioned, is a caricature of a couple. Looking
Jane Avril dancing reminded of the wild dancers by Degas, surprised to try the dance steps: the harmonious and elegant than they were, the more agitated and they are vulgar. But unlike Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec was important to capture that special atmosphere Tabarin in Paris.
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