 It was also performed in 1923 during the Bauhaus Week at the Nationaltheater, Weimar, and at the Annual Exhibition of German Crafts, Dresden.Inspired in part by Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" and his observations and experiences during the First World War, Oskar Schlemmer began to conceive of the human body as a new artistic medium.He saw ballet and pantomime as free from the historical baggage of theatre and opera and thus able to present his ideas of choreographed geometry, man as dancer, transformed by costume, moving in space.