Twilight portrays a moment of inner and physical transformation: the twilight of a ballerina’s life and artistic career. Through an atmosphere charged with restrained emotion, the work confronts us with the fleeting nature of the body as an expressive instrument and the inevitable tension between beauty and decline. The female figure becomes a symbol of dedication, effort and discipline, but also of vulnerability and limitation.
The choice of title suggests the end of a luminous chapter, evoking the moment just before the dancer disappears from the stage. The expressive treatment, characteristic of the artist’s language, gives the scene an introspective and poetic quality, almost like a visual homage to the art of movement brought to a standstill.
"Dance, like every form of communication and emotional expression, is a necessity for those who feel it and practise it. Someone, I believe, must have said that ballet is the poetic expression of movement, and as poetry born of feeling, its themes are limitless. Yet the individual’s time of expression is limited: only a few years, after long and dedicated training and study. Here I have sought to portray the twilight in the life of a ballet dancer, whose anatomy, shaped and transformed by the demands of her art, can only fully reveal its beauty and ethereal quality through the rhythm of poetic and almost hallucinatory movement, bordering on ecstasy."
V. de Espona