Hoop Dance*. Performers: Manda von Kreibig, Karla Grosch II
Reifentanz. Darstellerinnen: Manda von Kreibig, Karla Grosch II
Repro: MAIN
1929, in Dessau
Negative untracable
Copy prints known:
I. Die Dame, Illustrierte Mode-Zeitschrift, Verlag Ullstein Berlin, 56. Jg., Heft 17, Zweites Maiheft 1929, p. 14 [Scene from Part 4, comp. Hoop Dance II]
[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.]
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