Filippo Marinetti -- Futurist Manifesto

Embracing a vision of the future centered on technology, with a heavy dose of absurdism and a deep desire to shake Italy out of what he saw as the near-death torpor of "tradition", Filippo Marinetti flung down a provocative, unsettling, feverishly poetic gauntlet: 

It is in Italy that we are issuing this manifesto of ruinous and incendiary violence, by which we today are founding Futurism, because we want to deliver Italy from its gangrene of professors, archaeologists, tourist guides and antiquaries.

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by Melissa Runnels

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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by Melissa Runnels