The Triadic Ballet is a performance created by Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943), “the master of the theatre workshop.” Premiered in 1922, the ballet had been born from a combination of artistic practices from the famous German art school, Bauhaus. Schlemmer originally collaborated with Paul Hindemith (1895-1963), the composer, for the music. It is considered an iconic performance piece of the Bauhaus.
The Bauhaus theater “is somehow the way to condense the work of all the workshops, to gather all the students to work together… a crystallization of many artistic ideas” from all disciplines involved. Music, dance, set design, visual art, and costume design all came together. Students worked side by side developing ideas.
Schlemmer was interested in presenting the human form as art itself and the functionality of Bauhaus through geometric costumes and robotic dance, contrasting with traditional ballet. The costumes represent geometric forms, particularly three forms - the square, triangle, and circle. There are three parts to the ballet - the yellow, pink, and black. There is the relationship between shapes, colours, and movement. The costume itself directly impacts the dance, creating doll-like figures of the dancers, due to their restrictive nature.
As time has gone on, the ballet continues to be performed and slightly adapted. It’s hard to believe that this dance was created in the early 20th century.
These gifs show snapshots from the 1970 film by Bavaria Film (on the left), and scenes from a recent version explained in a video with dancer Ivan Liška (1950- ) by Great Big Story (on the right).
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