Abstract
The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketch Books of Egon Schiele was created in 1998 by the contemporary British choreographer Lea Anderson for her all-male group, The Featherstonehaughs.1 The dance, 60 minutes long, was first performed in the 1998 Spring Loaded Festival, at the Place Theatre, London.2
What Anderson has done, while remaining true to the mechanics of Schiele’s implied movement, is to create a vision of an artistic milieu which draws out of the connections between Schiele’s own Viennese party animal days and the way his influence has permeated over the decades.
(Watson, 1998, p. 6)
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Rottenberg, H. (2008). Lea Anderson, Dancing and Drawing the Past into the Present. In: Lansdale, J. (eds) Decentring Dancing Texts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584426_9
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