The Featherstonehaughs Draw On The Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele
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I find Egon Schiele's sketches and paintings strikingly unapologetic. They seem to command your attention whilst simultaneously disdaining it - sneering at your compulsion to stare even as they force you into voyeurism... November 24, 2011
Search Amazon for The Featherstonehaughs Draw On The Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele items Search for tickets at TicketmasterNot so much a dance piece as a series of postures, Lea Anderson's 1998 work is a living drollery of painted mannequins directly inspired by the male figures in Schiele's 13 sketchbooks. Dressed in splash-painted two piece suits and later in Expressionist nude bodystockings, designed by triple Oscar-winner Sandy Powell, the six men deliver a series of twisted, angst-ridden tableaux and short, sharp sequences against a live soundtrack of dissonant rock music. At times it is like watching a group of street statue mimes gone rogue... November 9, 2010
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