Focus on Latin American Grand Final and analyze the Composition.
Ballroom dancing was an activity that attracted Brack by means of its "absurdity ... a natural activity, such as dance, [converted] into a demanding and challenging ritual."
As part of his research Brack attended the 1967 World Ballroom Dancing Championships held at Festival Hall in Melbourne. He also collected photographs of ballroom dancing and subscribed to Australasian Dancing Times – a ballroom dancing magazine.The painting shows the "lissom dancers in their richly decorated dresses and high-heeled shoes". It also includes a self-portrait of the artist in the top-left corner, "more vulnerable than the rest, dancing alone without a partner."
The painting, with its blaze of neon pinks, stinging reds and sharp thrusts of black, is full of sexual symbolism set within a very formalised choreographed ritual. The generous billowing and bulbous ballroom dresses are frequently shown encroached upon by a dancer’s leg, either bold and erect or curved and limp
Festival Hall Ballroom Dancing