Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Bauhaus Stage: Think in plan and elevation, set positions on a drawn floor grid
- Type
- Set in Bauhaus Stage's manner (Geometric sans only, sized by the ratio of circle to square), and let Dance Notation's lettering (Direction in symbol shape, level in shading, sizes held constant) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Bauhaus Stage's material (Spheres, cones and cylinders in primary color and metallic sheen); bring in exactly one thing from Dance Notation (Symbol length equals duration, so run a beat scale down the edge).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Roughly 221 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- Bauhaus Stage Gluing spheres and cones onto a costume without choreographing the body as a moving form leaves only a geometric fancy dress party.
- Dance Notation Bending symbol length to capture how a move feels makes duration unreadable, and the revival comes out as a different dance.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Bauhaus Stage (Style, 1921–1929) and its accent from Dance Notation (Style, 1700– / 1928 Laban). Structural cues: Geometrized bodies; Costumes of spheres and cones; Three acts by color; Choreography as spatial figure. Accent cues, used sparingly: Time climbing a vertical staff; Columns of direction symbols; Body parts as columns; Trajectory abstracted. Composition: Think in plan and elevation, set positions on a drawn floor grid. Type and lettering: Geometric sans only, sized by the ratio of circle to square. Let one material quality come from the second style: Symbol length equals duration, so run a beat scale down the edge. Mood: Play, Futurism, Technology, Calm, Rebellion. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Bauhaus Stage 1921–1929 / Style / Stage Design
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 1700– / 1928 Laban / Style / Notation Systems
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.
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