The statue depicts Wouters' wife and muse, Nel Deurinckx, in a dynamic and ecstatic dancing pose.

Wouters very often painted, drew and sculpted his wife in charming, everyday settings, while she was sleeping, reading, or doing domestic chores.

With this sensual sculpture, Wouters clearly distanced himself from the emotionlessness of academic art of his time.

[1] Wouters became inspired for this sculpture when he and Nel visited a 1907 performance by the American modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan in the Muntschouwburg in Brussels.

Casts of the sculpture are part of the following art collections: The statue is a central motif in Joris Vermassen's graphic novel 'Het Zotte Geweld'.