Toys comes to life in 1920’s German geometric ballet

Ballet is no stranger to precision movements, but rarely have they been as mathematically exact as those featured in the works of 1920’s German choreographer Oskar Schlemmer, pioneer of the Bauhaus School. Obsessed with the idea of freeing art from its restrictions, he used choreographed geography to push the boundaries of the way we use our body. His strange, captivating, and somewhat eerie ballet was performed from 1922 to 1929, when it fell victim to the stock market crash that brought the western world to its knees. Below is a reproduction from the 1970s, and it’s hard not to see the dancers as toys come to life.

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