Egon Schiele – Self Portrait

The production team, led by choreographer Jan Kodet, has prepared a dance theatre performance for the Revolving Auditorium, inspired by details from Egon Schiele’s paintings and drawings – long arms, piercing eyes, erotic facial expressions, dynamic gestures – and also by the words of his poems and letters. The audience will witness the return of Egon Schiele’s spirit to the castle gardens in the figure of a man looking at himself in the mirror, as in a photograph taken in his studio in 1915. The X-ray gaze of the genius, who was ahead of his time and who tried to free the human spirit, overcome the limits of morality and merge with nature, penetrates deep under the skin of his models. It is as if he were exploring the boundary between life and death. And we can see a beautiful free man full of love and sexual desire. We can see his muscles, his bones, his silhouette. We can see the pulsating line of life. We can see a young man, a house, a mirror and nature in a impetuous avidity before his untimely death. We can see Egon Schiele and our attempt at his self-portrait.

Let us enter the world behind the mirror in a dance project that combines sound, light, stage and movement.
 

Egon Schiele to Anton Peschka, a letter, 1910