Egon

Symptoms of influenza mean the last days in the life of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele 18901918 seem to be played out beyond the confines of a set time and space His stylised portraits come to live and edge him further towards death Choreographer Stuart has transformed his images into a transparent movement language that by turns follows and ignores the music by Alexander von Zemlinsky The rawly expressive and confrontational imagery reflects the powerful effect of Schieles drawings and paintings