They demonstrated the principles in the most simple and gigantic way imaginable. But Mummenschanz started small. But playing large and relying on economical gestures also has profound roots in the science and art of movement. You're reduced to elements of speed, shape, and weight. And it's amazing how much can be expressed just through those dynamics.
Mummenschanz masks are so abstract that many interpretations become possible.
Even the programs are drawn out as one long panel of shifting shapes and figures, rather than written, which leaves each viewer free to decide what is happening on stage. We are not telling the audience what they have to see or understand. They don't have to walk out of the show and think, 'Oh my god, I didn't understand anything. They are respected as a whole human being. Yes, in some ways.