Bauhaus Stage vs Constructivist Stage
バウハウスの舞台 / 構成主義舞台美術
Both sit in Stage Design, so the question is not what they belong to but how they behave. Both are read here as style. They are reached for with some of the same intent, which is where they get confused.
Bauhaus Stage
Schlemmer's stage workshop turned the body into geometry. Spheres and cones in the Triadic Ballet costumes set the human figure dancing as a form in space, and performance art traces its origin to them.
Constructivist Stage
Revolutionary Russia's style that discarded painted backdrops for a bare working machine on stage. The turning structure Popova built for The Magnanimous Cuckold remade stage design as working construction.
| Bauhaus Stage | Constructivist Stage | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1921–1929 | 1922–1930s |
| Family | Stage Design | Stage Design |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Geometrized bodies / Costumes of spheres and cones / Three acts by color / Choreography as spatial figure | Bare structures / Turning wheels and ramps / No backdrop / Biomechanics of the actor's body |
| Best used for | Stage costume and dance direction that recasts the body as pure geometry · Exhibition or brand film about the relation between figures and moving bodies | Stage sets the actors climb and operate, where the structure itself performs · Trade booths and concert rigs that show their function instead of hiding it |
| Type | Geometric sans only, sized by the ratio of circle to square | Stencil the lettering straight onto the structure, fitted to each panel |
| Composition | Think in plan and elevation, set positions on a drawn floor grid | Leave the back empty and split the height into three working levels |
| Material | Spheres, cones and cylinders in primary color and metallic sheen | Raw timber and steel with wheels and pulleys left exposed |
| Caution | Gluing spheres and cones onto a costume without choreographing the body as a moving form leaves only a geometric fancy dress party. | A static decorative tower called constructivist becomes a prop the actors cannot use, and the premise that the structure works disappears. |