In his lifetime Xanti Alexander Schawinsky 190479 was best known for his work in the theater department at the Bauhaus. Fleeing Germany before the beginning of the Second World War he landed at Black Mountain College in North Carolina where in the 1930s he developed his theory of the Spectodrama. Involving multimedia productions examining elementary phenomena such as space motion light sound or color from scientific technical and performancebased perspectives the Spectodrama represents an earl