Bauhaus Triadic Ballet

Triadisches ballett triadic ballet is a ballet developed by oskar schlemmer the ballet became the most widely performed avant garde artistic dance and while schlemmer was at the bauhaus from 1921 to 1929 the ballet toured helping to spread the ethos of the bauhaus.

Bauhaus triadic ballet. Like many of the bauhaus faculty schlemmer was attracted to a non hierarchic integration of multiple arts and nowhere was this mixture more dramatic than in his triadic ballet an unconventional performance piece that using a score by paul hindemith featured geometric costumes colorful sets and abstract choreography in a dynamic. View samples of animated performances inspired by schlemmer s ballet. He left the bauhaus on 11th july 1929. Schlemmer described his work as artistic metaphysical mathematics.

Few pieces of dance choreography have taken on such iconic status that they can be identified from a single still image even by people outside of the dance world. For a 1926 performance paul hindemith composed musical accompaniment. This dance performed by three dancers uses the human body as a medium experimenting with the interconnectedness of costumes music and movement as well as space color and form. Oskar schlemmer born september 4th 1888 in stuttgart gernany.

Schlemmer was the director of the bauhaus stage s national tour in 1928 to 1929. The triadic ballet bavarian junior ballet munich. In 1927 28 he taught figure drawing and offered his course der mensch the human being from 1928. The bauhaus has inspired everything from architectural wonders in brazil to your favorite album cover to your mom s.

The triadic ballet a symbol of the weimar era and modernism was designed and choreographed by bauhaus artist oskar schlemmer. Oskar schlemmer s triadic ballet a staple of contemporary dance history january 25 2019 by emily may. But oskar schlemmer s triadic ballet is an exception. He was a painter sculptor designer and choreographer.

From 1923 to 1929 he was the head of the stage workshop at the bauhaus in weimar and dessau. Reconstrucción del ballet triadico de oskar schlemmer para la bauhaus. Oskar schlemmer a bauhaus painter sculptor and teacher created the triadic ballet in 1922. Performance of these elements expressed the total work of art a central principle of the bauhaus.