Bauhaus Stage vs New Stagecraft
バウハウスの舞台 / 新舞台芸術
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.
New Stagecraft
The stage reform that dropped painted realism for light, levels and simple volumes shaping space for music and the body. Appia's living light and Craig's moving screens created the very profession of lighting design.
| Bauhaus Stage | New Stagecraft | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1921–1929 | 1890s–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 | Form made by light / Abstract space of steps and ramps / Painted flats banished / Compositions of simple volumes |
| 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 | Opera and music theatre where light and levels alone change the scene · Lighting plans that stand performers in abstract space for small houses |
| Type | Geometric sans only, sized by the ratio of circle to square | Keep lettering minimal and let projected titles follow the light values |
| Composition | Think in plan and elevation, set positions on a drawn floor grid | Carve the floor with steps and ramps, cut depth with hanging planes |
| Material | Spheres, cones and cylinders in primary color and metallic sheen | Plain grey surfaces and drapes, with color carried only by light |
| Caution | Gluing spheres and cones onto a costume without choreographing the body as a moving form leaves only a geometric fancy dress party. | Assuming that light alone makes abstraction leaves the step heights and the performer's paths undecided, and the stage becomes merely a dim room. |