Planethugill by Robert Hugill

Death in Venice

Paul Curran and choreographer (and assistant director) Andreas Heise really used dance to create an expressive language for Tadzio, his family and the young men on the beach. And they were young men, not boys, all wearing figure hugging period bathing costumes which revealed every inch of their stunning musculature, giving the beach scenes a strong homo-erotic element. But this was visual beauty, and Celesin Boutin's dancing ensured that Tadzio was highly expressive but completely separate from Paul Nilon's Aschenbach.