A rare example of Rodchenko's manipulation of the photographic image, this is one of only three known hand-coloured prints, all variants on the theme of dance. The others titled and Rumba are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Rodchenko/Stepanova Archive, Moscow. A catalogue note for the latter exhibited in Photography in Russia 1840-1940 at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1992 suggests it was based on a production shot from Leonid Obolenskii's film Albidum, 1928, for which Rodchenko was the designer.

It was in 1935 that Rodchenko first started to paint again after a break of fifteen years.