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Hoop Dance*. Performers: Manda von Kreibig, Karla Grosch I

   
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Reifentanz. Darstellerinnen: Manda von Kreibig, Karla Grosch I
Hoop Dance*. Performers: Manda von Kreibig, Karla Grosch I 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. 229. [Scene from Part 4]

  • [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

Ausdruckstanz und Bauhausbühne. 2019 Hannover, (Reproduktion)

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

Literature

Le Coreografie astratte di Oskar Schlemmer - arte totale e teatro totale. Lino Cabras 2022 Melfi, Italy, S./p. 104, Abb./ill.

Fotografie am Bauhaus - Überblick über eine Periode der Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert. Jeannine Fiedler, Sabine Hartmann,  u.a./et al 1990 Berlin, S./p. 246, Abb./ill. 394 [hic Albert Braun]

TANZ:FOTO - Annäherungen und Experimente 1880-1940. Monika Faber 1990 Wien, S./p. 71, Abb./ill.

Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne. Dirk Scheper 1988 Berlin, S./p. 199. Abb./ill. 229.

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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