In this group of three paintings, Schapiro attempts to visualize her creative development through the imagery of theater and dance, media which have direct and indirect allusions to ideas about performance and masquerading as part of the process of constructing oneself and constructing gender.I'm Dancin' as Fast as I Can: the figure which represents Schapiro is fragmented, breaking into pieces, and caught between a male and female dancer. The male dancer appears to be marching off stage, while the female dancer is attached to the central figure by a rope-the symbol of an umbilical cord.. Although tied to one figure, the central figure seems to be pulling away from her, wanting to go after the man. The fragmentation can suggest two things: being torn apart, or coming together and becoming a self. If becoming, she is becoming herself in a position which is in-between the male and female dancers. No matter which way we see her, as being drawn to follow the male dancer or tied to the female dancer, it is a conflicted position which holds the possibility of further construction, presumably through art.