Dance performance and film screening
Bauhaus and dance
Bauhaus was not limited to minimalist and revolutionary design, as it also hosted often themed costume parties and evenings of theatre and dance. At this event, the Bauhaus aspects of costumes and dance are explored through dance performances with specially made costumes and a film screening.
The evening starts with the performance Homage, where three dancers, in their specially made sculptural body extensions show a new interpretation of Oskar Schlemmer’s triadic ballet, almost 100 years after its premiere in 1922. The scultpural forms - body extensions, which play a vital role in this dance performance, were created by students under the guidance of Melita Couta at the Fine Art Department (University of Nicosia).
The film Triadic ballet by Oskar Schlemmer leads us directly into the world of Bauhaus and its famous ballet. It premiered in Stuttgart, on 30-31 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith, after formative performances dating back to 1916. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance. Oskar Schlemmer began to conceive of the human body as a new artistic medium. He saw ballet and pantomime as free from the historical baggage of theatre and opera and thus able to present his ideas of choreographed geometry, man as dancer, transformed by costume, moving in space.
Following the screening, Arianna Economou shows the choreography Knot/Homage inspired by a gouache painting by Anni Albers titled Knot, from 1974. In her choreographic interpretation of Albers artwork, she traces the movement of the three strings, in yellow, red and blue “taking them for a walk”.
This event is taking place in collaboration with Dance Gate Lefkosia.
Dance Gate Lefkosia would like to thank Dancehouse Lefkosia for collaboration.
Film screening:
Das triadische Ballett (Triadic ballet) by Oskar Schlemmer (1922)
Screenplay and choreography: Margarete Hasting, Franz Schömbs, Georg Verden
Music: Erich Ferstl
Dancers: Edith Demharter, Ralph Smolik, Hannes Winkler
Dance performances:
Choreography: Arianna Economou
Dancers: Stephanie Pastella, Sotiris Sotiriou, Belinda Papavasileiou, Ianthe Economou
Costume design: Chrysanthos Diamantakis, Kleantis Constantinou, Miriam Gatt, Christina Georgiadou, Elena Hadjigeorgiou, Nafsika Demetriou
Melita Couta has been working extensively in theatre and performing arts as a director, scenographer and project co-ordinator. Since 2006, she has been the co-founder of Paravan, an independent company who is focusing on experimental theatre, performance and curating. Since 2016, she has been teaching at the Nicosia University Fine Art Department.
Details
Dancehouse Lefkosia
25, Parthenonos
Ayios Andreas
1105 Nicosia
Language: German, English
Price: Admission free
+357 22 674606
kultur-nikosia@goethe.de
Part of series Bauhaus Open House