Even though it’s best known as an architecture and design academy, the Bauhaus school was actually the first official artistic institution containing performance as a necessary part of education; meaning that performance art was accepted as an individual art form different from traditional theater and dance, already in the 1920s, by the progressive teachers and students of the Bauhaus. It was explored trough an experimental Bauhaus Stage workshop, which was supposed to cure students from Expressionism, and the most important period of its development was while it was lead by Oskar Schlemmer, who has been invited to teach at the school based on his reputation as a painter, sculptor and an avant-garde artist interested in translating the visual language to the language of performance art.
The Bauhaus school of arts and design was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, in 1919. The urge for exploring performance in a school concerned mostly with architecture and design was caused by their deep understanding of the importance of space; which lead them to investigating the relation between humans and the space surrounding them, between ideal geometric forms which make up the essence of space itself and the possibilities of mechanical and human movement within them. But, unlike the Futurist or Dada performances which were mostly anarchist and rebellious, the Bauhaus performances were based on order, law and precise structure, as stated in the Bauhaus manifesto itself; where this entire educational project has been defined as a cathedral of Socialism aimed at unifying all of the arts and operating as a community where people worked and lived together.
23 янв 2019
