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Hoop Dance*. Performer: Manda von Kreibig II

   
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Reifentanz. Darstellerin: Manda von Kreibig II
Hoop Dance*. Performer: Manda von Kreibig II Repro: I. art-archives.net
  • 1929, in Dessau
  • Negative untracable

  • Copy prints known:
    I. Schriftenreihe der Akademie der Künste Band 20, Dirk Scheper, Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne, S./p. 199. Abb./ill. 228. [Scene form Part 3]

  • [Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer, choreography created in collaboration with Manda v. Kreibig, a professional ballet dancer who co-operates with Schlemmer since February 1928. The premiere of the Hoop Dance, a performance of c. four minutes devided in four parts, took place as part of the matinee show of the Bauhaus-Stage at the Volksbühne Berlin, on 3 March 1929.]

    [The four different sceneries:
    Part 1: In the dark decorated stage one dancer plays with a big white wooden hoop in swinging movements.
    Part 2: A background prospect of connected hoops ‘made of polished steel wire’ (TLF) is lowered into the stage, the dancer performes with five hoops of different sizes in front of it.
    Intermezzo (Ballet Méchanique/Material spectacle): Additionally two big spiraling figures - constructed from hoops ‘of polished steel wire’ (TLF) and in male and female shapes - are hung into the center of the stage. Finally two more hoop-prospects are lowered into the middle and the front stage.
    Part 3: Situated between the two front prospects and illuminated only from the side the dancer performs with two times 5 hoops of different sizes, letting them go in the end.
    Part 4: The huge hoop-puppets are illuminated, moved and pulled into the roof, the performer with her hoops dances over the stage. At the premiere, according to Scheper [209, p. 197-199], two more dancers - Karla Grosch und Georg Hartmann - performed in this final part.]

  • Themes:  Bauhaus-Stage,  Bauhaus

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Exhibitions

Still Undead: Pop Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus. 2019 Nottingham (GB) Still Undead explores the Bauhaus in relation to art and subculture in Britain. The exhibition coincides with the centenary of the pioneering yet short-lived art and design school’s founding in Weimar. It traces how Bauhaus experiments in light, sound and performance lived on, refracting into disparate fields: electronic music, kinetic sculpture, shop-window display, mod fashion, queer club culture. Spanning the 1920s to the 80s, the exhibition includes works by some 30 artists, designers and musicians.

Ausdruckstanz und Bauhausbühne. 2019 Hannover, (Reproduktion)

Das Bauhaus tanzt. 2015 Leverkusen, (Reproduktion) Eine Ausstellung der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau in Kooperation mit Bayer Kultur.

TANZ:FOTO - Annäherungen und Experimente 1880-1940. 1990 Wien

Experiment Bauhaus - Das Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin (West) zu Gast im Bauhaus Dessau, DDR. 1988 Dessau, Nr. 230

Literature

Ausdruckstanz und Bauhausbühne. Hubertus Adam, Sally Schöne 2019 Hannover, S./p.140, Abb./ill.

Das Bauhaus tanzt / Dance the Bauhaus. Torsten Blume 2015 Leipzig, S./p. 38, Abb./ill.

Oskar Schlemmer - Visionen einer neuen Welt. Ina Conzen, Susanne M. I. Kaufmann,  u.a./et al 2014 Stuttgart, S./p. 235, Abb./ill., Nr. 206 [hic: 1928/29]

Mensch Raum Maschine - Bühnenexperimente am Bauhaus / Human Space Machine - stage experiments at the Bauhaus. Torsten Blume [Hg./ed.], Christian Hiller [Hg./ed.],  u.a./et al 2013 Dessau, S./p. 187, Abb./ill.

TANZ:FOTO - Annäherungen und Experimente 1880-1940. Monika Faber 1990 Wien, S./p. 84, Abb./ill.

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 199. Abb./ill. 228.

Experiment Bauhaus - Das Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin (West) zu Gast im Bauhaus Dessau (DDR). Magdalena Droste, Jeannine Fiedler, Peter Hahn, Dirk Scheper, Klaus Weber,  u.a./et al 1988 Berlin, S./p. 276-277, Abb./ill.

Oskar Schlemmer. Arnold L. Lehman, Brenda Richardson, Nancy J. Troy, Karin von Maur,  u.a./et al 1986 Baltimore, MD, S./p. 186, Abb./ill.

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