Man as Dancer

Sketch by Oskar Schlemmer, 1925

Man as Dancer, writes Schlemmer, obeys the law of the body as well as the law of space; he follows his sense of himself as well as his sense of embracing space . . . Man as Dancer is the medium of transition into the great world of the theater." Both illustration and comments define Schlemmer's devotion to the simplest and most basic form of movement on the stage.