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very good but its a shame that her hands are partialy cropped.

From ballet performance....

Thanks Richard....I intentionally cropped portion of the hands... movement and energy extending past the frame. Thanks so much for stopping by. Regards....LJ

interesting, initially having exactly the same reaction as Richard about those cropped hands, after reading your answer, I actually can 'see' the exact shape of her hands coming out of the frame; on the other hand I'm getting the notion of the stick being the axis of her movement, which is at the same time reflecting her own body-axis - both are meeting each other (and the frame!) at the top of the picture . . in short: a perfect composition!

 

Looking in this way -this is a complete lecture in 'looking' you're giving me through this picture- I discover that her arms actually form a rectangle, parallel with the picture frame, and (sorry, there is no end to it! . .) her body and the stick are forming the figure '4', which also signifies the square in a mathemathical sense, and structure (earth, solidity) in a symbolic sense . . .