...with the Triadisches Ballet!
One of my favorites. The Triadisches Ballet is a ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer. The ballet became the most widely performed and one of the most avant-garde artistic dance ballets, and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus. I have always enjoyed it. Now you understand what it's like in my mind!!! Just throw in a few naked men and your there. Very visually stunning. Enjoy the show kids!
Wow.... It's a bit like Fantasia. I wonder how it would register if you watched it high?
ReplyDeleteI'll get back to on that.......
DeleteI would much rather watch this than traditional ballet!
ReplyDeleteSounds Stravinsky ish
ReplyDeleteI agree with Big.
ReplyDeleteIt gives me Fantasia. Bauhaus was a very particular movement and this looks fab.
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I love it. It arty, fun and fanatical, while still giving me some willies and feels a tad scary at times. I love that feeling.
DeleteI don't get high anymore, but this would definitely do things to my mind if I did.
ReplyDeleteI have watched this in the past. Adore. Very creative. Very unique. I like the mix of aesthetics. Thanks for sharing. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteI was going to post the long version....but I figured people might want lunch some time today.
DeleteI like most ballet music but the dancing itself leaves me cold; I have no joy in watching people ruin their feet.
ReplyDeleteSchlemmer’s ballet came at a time of experiments in dance in Germany with the likes of dance innovators and pioneers: Rudolph von Laban, Harald Kreutzberg, Mary Wigman, Hanya Holm, Kurt Jooss.
ReplyDeleteThe Bauhaus was originally founded in Weimar in 1919 and moved to Dessau in 1925 at the behest of aircraft magnet Hugo Junkers, who funded the construction of its campus. (both Schlemmer and Junkers would run afoul of the Nazis) In 1932 the Dessau campus was closed, the school then moved to Berlin where the Bauhaus remained until 1933 when it was pressured into closing for good by the Nazis. Like many other artists, Schlemmer was forced into a form of internal exile in Germany by the Nazi regime, their art condemned and not allowed to be shown in public. Schlemmer had designed the Bauhaus emblem of a worker’s profile in abstract.
-Rj
That was all very fascinating RJ!!!! I never knew any of that. This is so different I can't imagine it being condemned.
DeleteI find that whole inter-war era of Weimar Berlin utterly fascinating (if a bid sad, when one thinks what may have been, had the Nazis not killed it all off) - and the Triadisches Ballet in particular! Fab-u-lous! Jx
ReplyDeleteMe too Gin Blossom!!!!! It's it just. Cheers!
DeleteNow that was fun to watch; I love the inventiveness and the what the fuckery of it all!
ReplyDeleteOh my lands.....I never know what I'm walking into when I arrive at this blog. I loved this. The artist content is off the charts. And the ensembles!!!!! I enjoyed this.
ReplyDeleteOh wow. I wonder what people back then thought of it, or said about it. It still so modern even today (or is that my lack of ballet knowledge or art for that matter thinking this).
ReplyDeleteI think so too. I forget just how old it is.
DeleteI appreciate that Bauhaus and Art Deco are complimentary design styles in furniture, architecture and utilitarian objects, however, I prefer more traditional ballets. This one evoked creepy robots, balloon animals, mimes and the Michelin Tire Man all at once -- not my cup of tea, but whatever floats your boat, Maddie!
ReplyDeleteSo see, you basically were just inside my mine.!
DeleteFirst I've heard of it but I don't think I've ever seen a real ballet ever
ReplyDeleteI was only ever to two ballets. This one is definitely a "out of the box"
DeleteTruly bizarre.
ReplyDeleteI wish this was what it looked like inside my mind. Visually stunning. I can see why you would love this. Amazing that this was created 100 years ago!
ReplyDeleteVery witty ~ very beautiful! If not a bit creppy.
ReplyDeleteSo modern! And to think... Incredible that this ballet is almost 100 years old.
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about this kind of this kind of art. But I'm very surprised by the fact that this is from the year 1922, it seems like a very modern concept in general. The Germans changed the world in a way that I could never understand, they were always ahead of its time, it´s just magic.
ReplyDeleteWonderfully unique.
ReplyDeleteI have read that this was revolutionary for its time, but I think that this is revolutionary for OUR time as well, and perhaps maybe, ALL time?!
ReplyDeleteThis is the only time that I have enjoyed "modern" art.
Absolutely awesome ! Would have freaked me as a kid but I love it ! Strange yet very fascinating!
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