Abstract

This chapter presents a case study of The Featherstonehaughs Draw on The Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele, a key work by leading British choreographer Lea Anderson. I consider the ways in which Anderson’s choreographic techniques re-frame the artworksartwork of of the great Austrian artist Egon Schiele, including his apparently “pornographic” depictions of himself and young Viennese women. Anderson’s techniques seem to re-present those depictions with a brutal detachment, suggesting that the physical body is constituted as such through the ways in which it is measured and specularised. However, with reference to the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and particularly Jean-Luc Marion, I argue that those techniques effect an “erotic reduction”, opening up a radically different kind of corporeal experience in which the spectatorspectator crosses flesh with the dancer.