“ONE, THREE, TWO.”

Northern Advocate, 24 May 1929, Page 10

“ONE, THREE, TWO.”

MODERNIST DANCING. The Bauhaus. of Dessau, Germany’s modernist artistic school, recently gave a matinee of dance, pantomime and sketch at the Volksbuhne, Berlin. The Bauhaus group express the mechanistic tendencies of today, says the Berlin correspondent of the “Christian Science Monitor.” They use an almost mechanical rhythm, beat and ■ gesture. In this group it is what the dancer wears or carries that is important. 'Thus a “Dance in Metal” features not Maria Grosch, the young lady whose name appears appropriately, in smaller print on the programme, but * the silver shining metal of surroundings and costume. In the “Space Dance” three young men, dressed in primary colours, red, blue, and yellow, run, leap, creep, sit, and crawl about in curious but presumably logical attitudes. Later these three go even further in their eccentric movements. Round and round three screens: they walk and count. Individuality is added here where the dancers do not count regularly but thus: “One! three! two!” Among all this disturbing modernity there was one concession to convention, an item which revealed the ilancers as not merely robots dancing on a desert moon. The three young mem-dancers appeared as fashionably dressed spinsters of the last century. This break in the mathematical monotony aroused much laughter.