The danseuse in leading roles in celebrated Romantic and classical ballets including La Sylphide, Giselle, Coppélia, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker is depicted in Roseman's drawings on the dance at the Paris Opéra. Heroines with familiar names as Juliet, Manon, Carmen, and Cinderella portrayed by ballerinas at the Paris Opéra also inspired Roseman in his drawings on the dance. The artist's drawings present the danseuse in stage personae such as an Indian temple dancer, a Greek goddess, a sacrificial maiden of a primitive tribal rite in ancient Russia, and as her own identity in choreographic works of modern dance.