Alma Haser
To perform an egg dance ( Einen Eiertanz aufführen), 2023
Archival pigment print, cut and folded out
Unframed: 33 x 46cm
Framed: 44 x 56cm
Framed: 44 x 56cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
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This expression means; To dance around the subject and avoid getting to the point. An egg dance was a traditional Easter game dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries....
This expression means; To dance around the subject and avoid getting to the point.
An egg dance was a traditional Easter game dating back to the 16th
and 17th centuries. Originally, the expression “egg dance” referred
to an intricate dance that was performed among raw eggs –
sometimes even blindfolded. The eggs would be placed on the
ground for a dancer to then move among them, trying to break as
few as possible.
In Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795), the leading
character Wilhelm buys a young peasant girl from a band of
travelling performers after seeing her being beaten for refusing to
do the egg dance. To thank him for saving her from captivity she
performs her egg dance for him blindfolded. Nowadays, this idiom
describes someone who avoids talking about a problem the same
way the dancers avoided stepping on the raw eggs, all the while
moving carefully through the situation.
An egg dance was a traditional Easter game dating back to the 16th
and 17th centuries. Originally, the expression “egg dance” referred
to an intricate dance that was performed among raw eggs –
sometimes even blindfolded. The eggs would be placed on the
ground for a dancer to then move among them, trying to break as
few as possible.
In Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1795), the leading
character Wilhelm buys a young peasant girl from a band of
travelling performers after seeing her being beaten for refusing to
do the egg dance. To thank him for saving her from captivity she
performs her egg dance for him blindfolded. Nowadays, this idiom
describes someone who avoids talking about a problem the same
way the dancers avoided stepping on the raw eggs, all the while
moving carefully through the situation.