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Rodin and Dance review, Courtauld Gallery ★★★★★

20 Oct 16 – 22 Jan 17, Daily 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.30pm)

Utterly joyous: Rodin's Dancers leap and twirl around the London gallery

By CW Contributor on 19/10/2016

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Dance Movement  © Rodin Museum Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement is at the Courtauld Gallery
Dance Movement © Rodin Museum Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement is at the Courtauld Gallery
Rodin and Dance review, Courtauld Gallery 5 Rodin and Dance review, Courtauld Gallery Ella Cory-Wright
Degas and his tutus, Schiele and his balletic muses, Alexander Calder and his obsession with Josephine Baker: art and dance have a rich shared history. French sculptor Auguste Rodin, whose hyper-realist works exude life and physicality, tried to capture the essence of the human body through the observation and representation of movement.


From the very beginning of his career, Rodin would insist that his models move around his studio, rather than adopt classical, academic postures. The sculptor's fascination with movement evolved into a fascination with dance, and this relationship is to be the focus of a 2016 Courtauld Exhibition, Rodin's Dancers, a collection of drawings and sculpture.


At the heart of the show are the Dance Movements: a series of small-scale works that were found in Rodin's studio after his death in 1917. These are gorgeous little things, sculpted in terracotta and plaster and improbably kinetic. The works are based on real encounters: Rodin was enthralled by the Royal Cambodian dance troupe who visited Paris in 1906 (“I am a man who has devoted all his life to the study of nature, and whose constant admiration has been for the works of antiquity,” he wrote. “They made the antique live in me.”) Not to mention the various models (read: lovers) who would visit the artist's studio after dark.


These are joyous works: the furthest cry from the bulk of The Thinker or Kiss - enough to lighten the darkest of winter afternoons.


What Rodin and Dance review, Courtauld Gallery
Where Courtauld Gallery, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN | MAP
Nearest tube Temple (underground)
When 20 Oct 16 – 22 Jan 17, Daily 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.30pm)
Price £7 for adults
Website Click here for more information



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