Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, 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 Labanotation'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 Labanotation (Symbol length equals duration, so run a beat scale down the edge).
- Colour
- Build on #ededeb, #f0c419, #212022 and admit one accent from #fdf3c2, #ab956f, #5f4b34.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
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.
- Labanotation Bending symbol length to capture how a move feels makes duration unreadable, and the revival comes out as a different dance.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Bauhaus Stage (style, 1921–1929) and their accent from Labanotation (style, 1928–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Bauhaus Stage exists for: stage costume and dance direction that recasts the body as pure geometry, or exhibition or brand film about the relation between figures and moving bodies. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Bauhaus Stage - Geometrized bodies - Costumes of spheres and cones - Three acts by color - Choreography as spatial figure 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. ## Accent comes from Labanotation, used sparingly - Symbols stacked without gaps on a vertical staff read from the bottom upward - Symbol shapes giving nine directions, with the centre line separating right from left - Shading inside each symbol standing for low, middle or high level - Symbol length equal to duration, with tick marks for beats and bar lines crossing the staff Let one material quality come from it: Symbol length equals duration, so run a beat scale down the edge. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #ededeb, carry the structure in #f0c419 and #212022, and let a single accent come from #ab956f. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: play, futurity, technique, calm, rebellion. ## What goes wrong - Bauhaus Stage: Gluing spheres and cones onto a costume without choreographing the body as a moving form leaves only a geometric fancy dress party. - Labanotation: Bending symbol length to capture how a move feels makes duration unreadable, and the revival comes out as a different dance. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions 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.
- Labanotation 1928– / Style / Notation Systems
A notation that turns bodily movement into one vertical staff read from the bottom upward. The shape of a symbol carries direction, its shading carries level, its length carries duration, and its position across the staff says which part of the body moves.
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