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 New Stagecraft's lettering (Keep lettering minimal and let projected titles follow the light values) 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 New Stagecraft (Plain grey surfaces and drapes, with color carried only by light).
- Colour
- Build on #ededeb, #f0c419, #212022 and admit one accent from #dacfbc, #8b7d70, #483b36.
Where they fight
- Bauhaus Stage and New Stagecraft both belong to Stage Design, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
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.
- New Stagecraft Assuming that light alone makes abstraction leaves the step heights and the performer's paths undecided, and the stage becomes merely a dim room.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Bauhaus Stage (style, 1921–1929) and their accent from New Stagecraft (style, 1890s–1930s). ## 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 New Stagecraft, used sparingly - Form made by light - Abstract space of steps and ramps - Painted flats banished - Compositions of simple volumes Let one material quality come from it: Plain grey surfaces and drapes, with color carried only by light. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #ededeb, carry the structure in #f0c419 and #212022, and let a single accent come from #8b7d70. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: play, futurity, technique, calm, exhilaration. ## Where they fight - Bauhaus Stage and New Stagecraft both belong to Stage Design, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable. ## 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. - New Stagecraft: Assuming that light alone makes abstraction leaves the step heights and the performer's paths undecided, and the stage becomes merely a dim room. ## 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.
- New Stagecraft 1890s–1930s / Style / Stage Design
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.
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