100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS – THE LABORATORY OF MODERNISM

Founded 100 years ago in Weimar, the Bauhaus’s influence on architecture, art, design and educational science can still be felt today. 100 years ago, the question of people’s role in the mechanical age was tackled on the Bauhaus stage in both artistic and experimental terms.

DAS TOTALE TANZ THEATER

has taken up the theme, exploring the question of the role of people in the digital age in the form of a virtual reality dance experience, inspired by the stage experiments of Oskar Schlemmer and Walter Gropius, with choreography by Richard Siegal.

A DANCE ADDRESSING THE QUESTION: WHO CONTROLS WHO?

The interplay between dance, music and sound design, costume design and scenography with algorithms and digital technology brings the story to life across three levels: Together with a “Tanzmaschine”, users pass through a dance choreography, always accompanied by the question of the extent of the scope of their influence on the surrounding space and the machine.