Pink Schlemmer, 2025

Pink Schlemmer / 2025 / Running time 12:30min / Language: English, German / Subtitles: English / 2k / ProResHQ / 5.1 Surround sound

From the lines Oskar Schlemmer drew in his 1925 essay Man and Art Figure, through a 1969 16mm film of his choreographies, to that film's erosion by time until only pink remains, Pink Schlemmer layers choreography upon choreography upon choreography. The result bends the Bauhaus's utopian imagination toward something more speculative and inclusive. Where Schlemmer calculated proportion and geometry on a biological body stripped of attributes, here the bodies are hybrid and non-European, their gestures queer, and the classical Indian dance form Kathak meets Bauhaus geometry with its own.

dancer Tanveer Alam / music Matt Smith / costume Laura Honsberger / mask Tim Manolo / production assistance Alex Turgeon / commissioned by Goethe Institut Toronto / curator Jutta Brendemühl

Festivals: 2026: Berlinale Forum Expanded / Arkipel Jakarta / Performance Art Touring Program, Japan / New Zealand Film Festival, Wellington