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| Striking moments but lacks light and shade ... Staging Schiele. Photograph: Foteini Christofilopoulou |
Staging Schiele review – art, obsession and orgasmic yelps
DanceEast, Ipswich
The expressionist aesthetics of Egon Schiele’s nudes should make for riveting dance, but Shobana Jeyasingh’s production is a bit too beige
Sunday 20 October 2019
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t’s easy to see why the work of Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is tempting choreographic catnip. The expressionist aesthetics of Schiele’s nudes – emotionally charged and attenuated lines, tense dynamics and oddly contorted poses – seem like a natural fit for contemporary dance. Despite this felicitous figural match, Shobana Jeyasingh’s Staging Schiele doesn’t always make for riveting dance.
