Bauhaus Stage vs Dance Notation
バウハウスの舞台 / 舞踊譜
Bauhaus Stage comes from Stage Design and Dance Notation from Notation Systems. 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.
Dance Notation
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A lineage of attempts to fix bodily movement on paper, from Feuillet's Baroque dance scores to Labanotation. Laban's vertical staff folds weight, direction and time into a single column, an alphabet of movement.
| Bauhaus Stage | Dance Notation | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1921–1929 | 1700– / 1928 Laban |
| Family | Stage Design | Notation Systems |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Geometrized bodies / Costumes of spheres and cones / Three acts by color / Choreography as spatial figure | Time climbing a vertical staff / Columns of direction symbols / Body parts as columns / Trajectory abstracted |
| 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 | Recording choreography so it can be revived without the original cast · Analyzing movement in comparable symbols rather than on video |
| Type | Geometric sans only, sized by the ratio of circle to square | Direction in symbol shape, level in shading, sizes held constant |
| Composition | Think in plan and elevation, set positions on a drawn floor grid | Time climbs from the bottom, one column for each body part |
| Material | Spheres, cones and cylinders in primary color and metallic sheen | Symbol length equals duration, so run a beat scale down the edge |
| Caution | Gluing spheres and cones onto a costume without choreographing the body as a moving form leaves only a geometric fancy dress party. | Bending symbol length to capture how a move feels makes duration unreadable, and the revival comes out as a different dance. |