Many major 20th-century designers and artistsamong them, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, and Mies van der Rohewere associated with the Bauhaus. I expand on this distinction in terms of a differential sense schematic approach to movement, one being visual, the other proprioceptive. A selected list of guides to to the Bauhaus school, founded Apin Weimar, Germany (moving to Dessau in 1925) by architect Walter Gropius, and highlights of some of its major figures. Schlemmer, on the other hand, promoted a synthesis of abstract and physical, as part of a model for live performance known as 'balletic mathematics'.
I discuss the concept of 'abstract dance' promoted by Kandinsky, in terms of a visualistic method, where movement is rendered both as a succession of still images and as an imaginary process. Bauli In Piazza - We Make Events Italia è unassociazione senza scopo di lucro, formata da professionisti del settore. I argue that despite stylistic similarities, these works present a divergent approach to the question of a geometrized motion design, which Schlemmer called 'mathematics in motion'. Whiht their contribution has been widely recognized in terms of a cross-pollination of ideas from the fine arts to the performing arts, this essay aho addresses the influence that compositional methods, based on techniques derived from figural drawing, as well as the study of form and geometry, might have had in their choreographic practice.
This essay looks at the seminal work of Bauhaus practitioners Wassily Kandinksy and Oskar Schlemmer in terms of their multidisciplinary approach to the performing arts, and the dance in particular.