ismail ivo – uncoy https://uncoy.com (many) winters in vienna. theatre, dance, poetry. and some politics. Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:05:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://uncoy.com/images/2017/07/cropped-uncoy-logo-nomargin-1-32x32.png ismail ivo – uncoy https://uncoy.com 32 32 ImPulsTanz 2012: Francis Bacon with Ismail Ivo https://uncoy.com/2012/08/francis-bacon-ismail-ivo.html https://uncoy.com/2012/08/francis-bacon-ismail-ivo.html#respond Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:05:13 +0000 http://uncoy.com/?p=808 One of the most awaited productions of the ImPulsTanz season includes co-artistic director Ismail Ivo in the lead role. Mesmerising posters and entrancing video previews have worked there magic. The public hungered for the late premiere. Here at last, Francis Bacon is a complex tormented work. The subject is the imaginative world of Irish visual artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992).

We begin in a prison cell with metal walls. There are flashing lights which recall something from the film the Matrix. It’s good to see a choreographic production challenging (if in miniature) the opera productions and the main stage theatre productions in production design. Great to get away from the empty black room at last. Fantastic work from production designer Penelope Wehrli.

Ismail Ivo is naked in a blanket, bare naked. The bottom of his feet are painted red, reminding us all that he and we are made of blood.

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