Figur im Raum - Schattenpantomime, (Pantomime with Figures ans Translucent Walls)
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1927, in Dessau
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I. Schriftenreihe der Akademie der Künste Band 20, Dirk Scheper, Oskar Schlemmer - Das Triadische Ballett und die Bauhausbühne, S./p. 258. Abb./ill. 269: Pantomime with figures and translucent walls*
[Bauhaus stage Dessau, conceived and directed by Oskar Schlemmer. On 16 March 1927, addressing an audience of the 'Circle of the Friends of the Bauhaus', and following Oskar Schlemmer's related lecture, the Bauhaus stage performs its Demonstration of systematical Exploration of the formal Elements for stage production, a program of different scenes dealing with dance, staging and the figure in space [cf. 209, 210]
Scheper: "The demonstration of [Shadow] Pantomime with figures and translucent walls ... deals with the distribution and the design of the stage-space while using modular walls and light. Experiments of this kind follow the ambition ... to replace the conventional backdrops by an arrangement derived from the elementary formal means of staging... The performance demonstrates the emergence of imaginary spatial units by using light and shade - building a space in a space. This setting plus the interaction with the moving dancer and movable lighting creates the complex experience of dynamic spaces."* [209, S. 141, 143-144]
Schlemmer: "... since we have no interest in make-believe forests, mountains, lakes or rooms - we have constructed simple flats of wood and white canvas that can be slid back and forth on a series of parallel tracks and can be used as screens for light projection. ... we can also make them into translucent curtains or wall areas and thereby achieve an illusion of a higher order. ... we let the light function by itself, for what it is ... Let us rather open our eyes and expore our minds to the pure power of color and light."* [210, p. 3]
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