Kandinsky: Dramatist, Poet. Talk and Reading: Lissa Tyler Renaud

Globus Books presents a talk on Wassily Kandinsky’s writings for the theatre and a reading of his poetry by Lissa Tyler Renaud, one of the world’s leading scholars of Kandinsky’s lesser-known rich legacy. PART 1 KANDINSKY: Dramatist, Dramaturg, and Demiurge of the Theatre Wassily Kandinsky, independently of his revolutionary contributions to painting, also wrote on and for the theatre from 1908 until his death in 1944. In his day, his theories of dramatic art, as well as his own plays, were hailed by great theatrical innovators such as Hugo Ball, founder of Dada, and Oskar Schlemmer, founder of the Bauhaus Theatre. He also crossed paths with important theatrical figures such as Diaghilev, Stanislavsky, Massine, Andre Breton, and many others. Today, although his writings offer an important link between traditional and experimental values in the theatre, they have been almost entirely neglected. This paper, delivered in an earlier version at the Russian State Institute of Performing