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TERPSICHORE


one of the nine Muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosine. He presided over the dance, music and choirs. In pictorial and sculptural representations she is usually represented as a lively and joyful young woman crowned with garlands, holding a lyre or other instruments, to the sound of which she adjusts her steps according to the musical cadences.
In the work, the ballet pointe shoes are the detonator of an explosion of energy, as if an underlying and unstoppable motion started from them

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