Bliss Dance (40-foot)

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

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Bliss Dance is a 40-foot steel-mesh sculpture of a dancing woman by Marco Cochrane, modelled on Deja Solis. After Burning Man in 2010 and San Francisco's Treasure Island, it was installed at The Park, beside T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip, in 2016.

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Bliss Dance is a 40-foot figure of a dancing woman, installed in The Park beside T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. She is balanced on one leg with her back arched and arms outstretched. Artist Marco Cochrane told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 2016 that the pose came from his model, Deja Solis; his own site describes the figure dancing with her eyes closed.

Cochrane built it over about a year, without computers, and it debuted at the Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert in 2010. The Review-Journal gave its size as 40 feet high, 29 feet wide and 15 feet deep, and its weight as 7,500 pounds. A steel skeleton joined by steel balls is covered in stainless-steel mesh and lit by about 3,000 red, green and blue LEDs. The newspaper put the construction time at 10,000 hours.

From 2011 to 2015 it stood on the Great Lawn at Treasure Island in San Francisco, where MGM Resorts officials first saw the sculpture. For its move to Las Vegas it was given a new lighting system, new silver paint inside and new mesh, because the old skin, Cochrane said, "had rust all over it". It was lit at a ceremony at The Park, MGM Resorts' outdoor dining and entertainment district beside T-Mobile Arena, in April 2016.

Cochrane said he wanted a nude figure in which "the expression of self was stronger than the nudity", and the Review-Journal reported that a 40-foot radius around it lets visitors see it from all sides. His website, archived in April 2025, calls The Park its permanent home.

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Installed outdoors in The Park, MGM Resorts' dining and entertainment district beside T-Mobile Arena; the artist's website, archived in April 2025, gives Las Vegas as its current location. The Review-Journal reported in 2016 that a 40-foot radius around the sculpture lets visitors see it from every side, and that it carries about 3,000 LED lights.

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In The Park, an outdoor pedestrian district beside T-Mobile Arena and New York-New York on the Las Vegas Strip.

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