Oskar Schlemmer

“If today’s arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.”

a leading practitioner of Bauhaus,
viewed three elements of the theater…
man in space
light in motion
and architecture

he was not interested in a representational theater
but a theater of abstraction.

he saw the life of our time as a product of mechanization
and that impulse
explains his insistence upon reducing form and motion
to the smallest number of shapes and movements