T. Lux Feininger

Form Dance III. Performers: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer

Formentanz III. Darsteller: Werner Siedhoff, Albert Mentzel, Edward Fischer

Repro: MAIN

1929, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Copy Prints known:
I. Bauhaus-Archiv Museum / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, Inv. Nr.: Donation Dirk Scheper, gelatin silver print, 126 x 175 mm. Verso inscr. by another hand: Sied. Menzel, Fisher
[By the beginning of 1929 the Form Dance by Oskar Schlemmer, 2nd version (the dancers now wear monochromatic black leotards), is integral part of the repertory of the Bauhaus-Stage Dessau and performed within the program at the matinee show of the Volksbühne Berlin, on 3 March 1929.]

Schlemmer: "now we give them basic tools like sphere, club, stick and bar, and let use them and move, and thus a performance will emerge that we call 'form dance (formentanz)'"* [210, p. 3]

Scheper: "The 'fixation of constructive compositions' leads to eight 'living pictures' - altogether performed within one and a half minutes - during which the performers create a connection with the space inside the stage while inter-acting and while 'adapting the force of ego-motion of their various tools'**."* [209, S. 188, **O. Schlemmer, Bühnenelemente, 1931]
Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
Themes: Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Stage