« Abstractes Ballett. De l’écriture de la danse à la danse de l’écriture »

Throughout his life, Klee was fascinated by the art of dance, as shown by around sixty works in his catalogue. After witnessing a performance by the Spanish dancer Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias in Rome in January of 1902, it became clear to him that “the artist can learn much here”, and that he would require greater contact with a dancer, “not only to feel the law of movement, but also to understand it”. During the Dessau period, Klee was friends with the German dancer Gret Palucca (1902–1993), who regularly performed her choreography at the Bauhaus.
Published in the catalogue of the Klee exhibition of the Centre Pompidou in Paris (6 April - 1st August 2016).