#triadic ballet

[diana-andraste]

Oskar Schlemmer's Das Triadisches Ballett, costumes and mask, 1920s

Animation from Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016. In Das Triadische Ballett (Triadic Ballet), 1970, Oskar Schlemmer’s dancers transform space “through form, color, and light.”

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Oskar Schlemmer 

Das Triadische Ballett: Drahtfigur, 1922

[the-cricket-chirps]

Karl Grill, Untitled (Spiral Costume, from the Triadic Ballet) c. 1926-1927

Oskar Schlemmer, Das Triadische Ballett Costumes, 1922

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The Triadic Ballet (1970)

[nyc-looks]

Thanh, 30

“I’m wearing a Vaquera top layered over a mesh top, Clara Collins skirt, and APC shoes. The grandma moss bag is my service pet at this point and the costume jewelry will stay on til it falls apart. All gifted or thrifted. I don’t think I have enough control or a cohesive language around my own style – it’s all seems gestural and a fully based in realms of moods/physical tension. I knew I’d going to Greenwood cemetery afterwards to hear a flutist Concrete Husband perform and watch a movie about NYC psychics. A few influences that have stuck with me throughout the years are Chinatown grandma layering, the color of pomegranate, Erykah Badu, my friends, House, and the Triadic ballet.“

Aug 16, 2024 ∙ MoMA PS1

[door]

i wanna take a minute and talk about my friend coleman.

coleman and i have been buds for a long time! when we both moved to the same city we achieved a bond that many service workers do: that of mutual discounts. coleman was a barista across the street from where i was a bookseller, and we passed each other as many free/discounted books and coffees as we could get away with. i always felt i had the better deal, however, because while i got cheap lattes i also got a glimpse into what coleman was thinking about and working on.

"do you have any patricia highsmith" he'd text me, and i'd raid the mystery section and think what story is going to come from this? he got very into oskar schlemmer's Triadic Ballet and i started checking any books we got in about the bauhaus for new images and texting them his way, knowing i was going to see it reflected in art someday soon. because the thing about coleman, maybe my favourite thing about him (among many, many things) is the way he will pursue a set of interests and then synthesize them all into a work of art that is entirely new and entirely him and like nothing i've ever seen before.

coleman makes comics. you might have seen his art in steven universe issues, or on tapas, or here on tumblr (like this one, about creating a personal color palette for himself, which literally changed my life). most of them you haven't seen, however, which kills me. i've edited a number of graphic novel pitches for coleman and i can tell you the stuff he comes up with is GOOD. it's weird and queer and earnest and original, all of it, every time. i really hope y'all will get to see some of it someday. but my point is that you can see this one thing right now:

coleman has been working on stone fruits for months and as of january 1st it's updating every day. it's a love letter to newspaper comics and early webcomics. it's about losing the spark of creativity and having to keep going anyway, and queer communities and weirdos and going home. this thing is so lovingly crafted, from the hand-drawn buttons (which change on certain days) to the fact that the website is .net. No element was too small to be considered, and it has been a joy to watch coleman consider them.

i want coleman to find his audience. he deserves it, and so does the audience. read stone fruits.

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Next Pixar movie is going to be called Colors. It will be about different colors living in color city

[the1920sinpictures]

1922 The “Triadic Ballet Company”. From Art Deco, FB.

[polish-art-tournament]

design round 1 poll 10

"Triadic folk" set of costumes, 2022:

propaganda: inspired by Oskar Schlemmer Triadic Ballet but with a clear touch of polish folkore

Belle costume (Belle and the Beast musical), 2023:

propaganda: The ball dress Belle wears in the animated movie from 1991 is beautiful, elegant but relative simple, due to the constrains of animating it (with then new "camera" animation), the 1994 Broadway adaption, went for my taste a bit too much, there are many frills, and ribbons, it for me doesn't look like something Belle would be the most comfortable in, the 2017 life action "remake" on the other hand went too far in the opposite direction despite not having the same constrains it is simpler than the animated version, for me it goes so far as too look cheap like a costume you buy for a child for carneval, it lacks the weight that made the movement of the dance feel elegant, but this! this version! is not a simple retreat of the previous it is something else and it is simple but elegant. the skirt has this layers that remaind me of monarch butterfly wings, its visual interesting without being overwhelming.

other costumes from the same musical

[bauhaus-movement]

Oskar Schlemmer's triadic #ballet of #geometry. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the #Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus.

[aliceisnotshort]

bauhaus

Triadisches

Unthinkable

render predation of tragic ballet

What is triadic ballet?

Oskar Schlemmer

Triadisches

Unthinkable

render predation of tragic ballet

What is triadic ballet?

True ethos of the Bauhaus movement

Avant-garde dance performance

opposition to the dance traditions

3acts/colors/moods/appearances

12 dances and 18 costumes

Oskar Schlemmer's interest - human body - body in motion - body in relation to space

Triadic Ballet costumes

Colorful three - dimensional objects

Made of various materials: metal, padded cloth, papier - mache

Represent abstractions of the human body

Form and material properties determine the dancers' movements

industrialism

relationship between body and space

Namely, form, order, and mechanic movement

the body in space, extending the body, augmenting parts of the body

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Oskar Schlemmer

Costume for the Triadic Ballet, Bauhaus. 1927.

Source

[the-cricket-chirps]

Oskar Schlemmer

Costume Design, Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet)

1921-1929

(New Production, 2014, color photos: Wilfried Hösl)

[victusinveritas]

Costume from The Triadic Ballet by Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer (1926)

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The Triadic Ballet (1970)

[thinkingimages]

Tadeusz Kantor next to the Goplana | Photo: Witold Witaliński

Goplana and the Elves

The exhibition evokes questions about the rank and status of objects. Goplana with Elves were not meant to be a decoration, but to “embody a stage character”. For Kantor, the object as a “form – a spatial sculpture with a metaphorical function” became an element of ambient art; arranging a space which is meant to ��absorb” the viewer.

The object “Goplana and the elves” refers to the play “Balladine” which Tadeusz Kantor directed in 1943 in the Underground Independent Theatre. Unlike in Słowacki’s text, Kantor’s Goplana is not an ethereal nymph. The human figure has been replaced by a simplified, geometric form. The artist’s radical gesture shows a fascination with Constructivism and Bauhaus theater, especially Oscar Schlemmer’s “Triadic Ballet.” Such a departure from realism was also a result of the experience of the occupation and the associated dehumanization that disparaged the human figure. 

No objects or props survived from the war. In the second half of the 1980s, with the Cricot 2 Theatre Museum in mind, Kantor began creating replicas of the objects that had not been preserved. They were supposed to evoke ideas that were important to him. “Goplana” was made of galvanized sheet metal and wood, which were the artist’s favourite materials. She is accompanied by two Elves made of light, openwork structures. 

Curators: Małgorzata Paluch-Cybulska, Bogdan Renczyński