The pastel Blue Dancers is the artist’s masterpiece on the ballet theme. Degas, a wonderful drawing artist, loved pastels, since the color and the line were one when working with it. The motif of conveying movement continued to interest him throughout his creative life. In this composition he breaks up the movement in a time sequence, showing its different steps. It is difficult to say whether the moment of a dance or a rehearsal is depicted here. It could be that the one painting is depicting the figure of one and the same ballerina but in different poses and turns. The artist portrayed the figure in a close-up view, combining the direct and inverted perspective in the composition. He uses his favorite methods of framing and recreating movements and gestures from memory.