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Susan Rothenberg (American, 1945– ). Vertical Spin. 1986–1987. Oil on canvas. © 2008 Susan Rothenberg / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo Credit: Tate, London / Art Resource, NY.

Rothenberg painted a series of 12 works on spinning figures—here, a dancer at different phases of a leap. Rothenberg has said that she tries “to break down and record the conceivable placements and changes of the body on its way up, and into an airborne spin. This imagined projection of movement in time and space met the same obstacles a dancer would know in trying to defy gravity. A dancer cannot spin in the air forever, and a painter can't make literal movement or actual space” (Tate Collection, 2004).