# Question about the BAUHAUS **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 22, 1999, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-bauhaus/5514 "1999-12-22T21:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-bauhaus/5514/1 "1999-12-22T21:28:00Z")
I’ve become very interested in the Bauhaus movement, and done quite a bit of reading on it. I really like the furniture, and I understand that part of the course included dance. Somebody at the BAUHAUS came up with a dance called the “PROGRESSIVE BALLET”, and from the descriptions given, it was really weird. Does anybody know if this is ever performed today? ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-bauhaus/5514/2 "1999-12-22T23:20:00Z")
Whew. I’m gonna get burned on this one, I can feel it. Nevertheless, I will function as the voice of ignorance in an otherwise enlightened community. I think that the Bauhaus’ ballet style was based largely on the dance style embodied in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. I’ve seen a fine version filmed in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. You can probably still find it on videotape, should you want to view something that is (possibly) related. I hate unanswered posts. They’re like fresh poop to a clean dog. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 1999, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-bauhaus/5514/3 "1999-12-22T23:46:00Z")
I saw it last year…Peter Murphy mopes around his basement dancing and singing about bats and misery. I loved it! I’m going to see it again and again ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-bauhaus/5514/4 "1999-12-23T01:25:00Z")
Ah, a prediction… Mouthbreather is… 29 years old. Am I right? Am I right? Somewhere between 25 and 32 in any case? All I know about the ballets is that they were designed by Oskar Schlemmer (who was also a painter) if that helps you any. A book I have notes that they were sort of sculptural and humanized-robotic, so I have something in my mind’s eye like Kraftwerk Mensch-Maschine videos. Let us know if you find anything out. ---
**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-bauhaus/5514/5 "1999-12-23T16:01:00Z")
I located a good book on the BAUHAUS. Indeed, Oscar Schelmmer wrote the ballet, and designed some really weird costumes. From all accounts, Weimar germany didn’t know what to make of this. I would like to persue this-anybody know if any modern dance companies do this sort of thing? ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 1999, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-bauhaus/5514/6 "1999-12-23T17:27:00Z")
I asked my SO last night-- he said that in his video-art class these were mentioned, and that someone in Germany still does perform them. It sounds like they’re pretty minimalist-- they saw a little clip, so apparently clips are out there. I wonder if a [northernlight.com](http://northernlight.com) search for Oskar would work?