The Bauhaus eschewed the macho, move fast and break things aesthetic of the Futurists.  Instead it espoused an Einheitskunstwerk, a "great construction that recognizes no boundaries between monumental and decorative art. "  This would lead directly to the fascination with "daily" movement in Postmodern dance and performance, which split its attention between 2 modes of "thingness" in dance":  the materiality of the body itself and the materiality of performance.

See below a still from Steve Paxton, a co-insurrectionist of Yvonne Rainer, in both the Judson Dance Theater and Grand Union, two pioneering postmodern dance collectives.  The image comes from Paxton's Satisfyin' Lover (1968/ 2011), in which the performers walked across stage in predetermined groupings with specified rests and bouts of sitting.

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