‘Dream Dancer’ presents a prancing horse (originally George Stubbs’ Whistlejacket – National Gallery) and a frenzied, vibrantly coloured ‘Pied Piper-like’ spirit in the form of a tambourine playing woman, dressed in multicoloured clothes and a cloak.
 
The horse and woman appear trance like as though in a magic circus ring, their ‘dancing’ inferred but movement frozen. But for the reflections along the bottom edge of the scene, they dance in an empty space.