Jaz-Age Alphabet Ballet from Prague

In 1926 the Czech dancer Milca Mayerová choreographed the alphabet as a photo-ballet. Each move in the dance is made to the visual counterpoint of Karel Teige's typographic music. Teige was a constructivist and a surrealist, a poet, collagist, photographer, typographer and architectural theorist, and his 1926 photomontage designs for the alphabet are a uniquely elegant and witty invention, and one of the enduring masterpieces of Czech modernism.


Teige's Alphabet is available as a postcard book, ALPHABET by Karel Teige, published by Redstone Press 2010, www.redstonepress.co.uk.

Buy ALPHABET at www.theredstoneshop.com