Moving Away does not include the male dancer. The mother figure is fully costumed in the masquerade of feminity. The younger woman appears to have rejected this masquerade, in her body, her costume, and her movement away from the figure on the left. But can she succeed, and how real is this attempt to escape, given the two-dimensionality of the figures, the hint of real space on the floor of the stage but immediately denied by the flat and patterned background?