The Pilot Study of the Theater of the Bauhaus

After the establishment of Bauhaus School, in order to enable students to study across fields, the principal Walter Gropius hopes that the artist Oskar Schlemmer will be responsible for the drama course. From 1923 to 1929, Schlemmer led the Bauhaus theater course, creating the golden age of the Theater of the Bauhaus and becoming synonymous with the Theater of the Bauhaus. The simplest statement he puts forward is that “the human body is a mobile building.” «Triadic Ballet» tried to create with the students in a workshop led by Schlemmer in 1912. In 1923, at the Weimar National Theatre, which took ten years of experimentation, Schlemmer developed the potential of exploring theaters in a metaphorical way of dance and machine.This stylized theater dance became an important text for understanding modern art revolution and Bauhaus’s stage thoughts. Bauhausdances.org suggested: “Schlemmer influenced the performance theory of Moss Cunningham, John Cage, and Ivan Nicholas.” Compared with the research on Bauhaus, such as architecture and product design, the Theater of the Bauhaus is less discussion. However, the forward-looking experiments of the Theater of the Bauhaus «Triadic Ballet have profoundly influenced the integration and development of modern cross-disciplinary performing arts. This study attempts to analyze the Theater of the Bauhaus «Triadic Ballet» proposing the aesthetic view of human body in space, From the perspective of art history, this paper analyzes the contemporary significance of this work in the development of modernist art.