ropius then introduced a requirement for everything produced in the studios: the quantity of parts must be kept to a minimum. The idea was to ready the process for mass production. The principles of what would eventually be known as “Bauhaus style” were now in place. Soon after a new master joined the faculty, Wassily Kandinsky, invited by Gropius following a long correspondence. Kandinsky’s specialty was classes in form and color.

In the theater department Oskar Schlemmer staged the Triadisches Ballett, the defining composition of his tenure. The ballet was designed in three parts (3 dancers, 12 dances in all), ascending from burlesque and comedy to the ceremonial and grand, peaking finally in fantasy.

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Oskar Schlemmer, Triadic Ballet costumes, 1926

Schlemmer proceeded by creating costumes suggestive of his paintings, then selecting music and mapping the movements of the dancers. Schlemmer offered something entirely innovative within the history of the theater.