Oskar Schlemmer, Group photo of Triadisches Ballett, 1927 / Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Fotograf: Ernst Schneider

Oskar Schlemmer, Group photo of Triadisches Ballett, 1927 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Fotograf: Ernst Schneider

Oskar Schlemmer, Group photo of Triadisches Ballett, 1927

The dancer at the centre is wearing a black costume under the wire costume for the Triadic Ballet, with a row of silvery buttons on the arms and shoulders. Her dance intensifies from slight rotation to strong rotation, so that the rings give the impression of being a coherent shape. In the dark, the silver of the wire and buttons shines, while the body clothed in black recedes: he looks almost dematerialized.

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