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Unveiling the Masked Figures: Introducing SurR.Ai's "Visions Hitherto Unseen" NFT Series.

From the Stage to the Digital Realm: SurR.Ai's "Visions Hitherto Unseen" NFT Series Honors the Pioneering Work of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt

Welcome to our latest blog post, "Unveiling the Masked Figures: Introducing SurR.Ai's "Visions Hitherto Unseen" NFT Series." In this post, we will be introducing a new digital collectible series created by the talented team at SurR.Ai, inspired by the work of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt, two of the most influential figures in the world of Expressionist dance in the 1920s.

"... a husband-and-wife team who realized visions hitherto unseen onstage..."

SurR.Ai's "Visions Hitherto Unseen" NFT series pays tribute to the creative genius of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt and celebrates the spirit of Expressionist dance. In this series, you will find a series of digital collectibles featuring masked figures, inspired by the expressive and imaginative costumes created by Holdt for Schulz's performances.

Expressionist dance was a movement that emerged in Germany in the early 20th century and was characterized by its emphasis on emotional expression and individualism. Expressionist dancers often used exaggerated, expressive movements and facial expressions to convey emotion and tell a story through dance. The costumes worn by Expressionist dancers were also important, and were often designed to enhance the expressive qualities of the dance.

Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt were a wife and husband partnership briefly famous in Germany during the early 1920s for their wild, Expressionist dance performances consisting of “creeping, stamping, squatting, crouching, kneeling, arching, striding, lunging, leaping in mostly diagonal-spiraling patterns” across the stage. Shulz believed “art should be…an expression of struggle” and used dance to express “the violent struggle of a female body to achieve central, dominant control of the performance space and its emptiness.” They created dances and costumes together, with masks consisting mostly of fantastically reptilian, insectoid, or robotic heads, and the rest of the costumes comprising eccentric patchworks of design, color, and material. According to one historian, their dances were “among the strangest produced by the whole Weimar dance culture.” 


Their designs sought something pagan, pre-Christian, that tapped into the “redemptive organic forms of nature and the animal world.” Little is known about Holdt, but it is known that Schulz studied dance and performance in Berlin in 1913 and became associated with the Expressionists who rebelled against the rigid, traditional forms of art in favor of a more subjective perspective. The couple moved away from Expressionism and sought inspiration from the supposed purity of pre-Judeo-Christian, Aryan-Nordic culture. They had a tempestuous relationship, which fed into their work, and they lived an austere existence in direst poverty. Between 1920-24, the couple performed their dance routines to the bewildered and often antagonistic audiences of Hamburg. Though some critics appreciated the pair’s talent and startling originality, this praise was never enough to pay the rent. In 1924, the couple were photographed in their costumes by Minya Diez-Dührkoop, and later that same year, on June 19th, four days before her birthday, Schulz, no longer able to withstand Holdt’s (suspected) adultery, shot her husband in a jealous rage several times at point blank range before turning the gun on herself. The couple were discovered dead lying on their bed of straw with their infant son between them. In 1925, their designs and costumes were gifted to the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG).

SurR.Ai's "Visions Hitherto Unseen" NFT series is a tribute to the legacy of Schulz and Holdt and the spirit of Expressionist dance. These digital collectibles are available for purchase on the OpenSea marketplace and offer a unique opportunity to own NFTs that celebrates the art of expression and the pioneering work of these two visionaries.

We hope that you have enjoyed exploring this series and learning about the impact of Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt on the world of dance. Thank you for joining us on this journey, and we hope that you will continue to follow along as we unveil more exciting NFT series in the future.

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