Week Three

Introduction of DaDa cabaret

The roots of DaDa, especially the DaDa of the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I (not the 80s band named after the famed cabaret), are a response to the violence of war. The manifesto idea of the futurists was adopted to anti-violence, rather than the aesthetics of technology and violence. The DaDa cabaret will be introduced, and participants will prepare their contributions to a “new” DaDa cabaret.

Emmy Hennings and diseuse (poetry recitation); Hugo Ball

Tristan Tzara

Jean/Hans Arp and Sophie Tauber (cross-arts)


Picabia and Duchamp

Collage and Film


DaDa Manifesti

By Hugo Ball
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dada_Manifesto_%281916%2C_Hugo_Ball%29

By Tristan Tzara
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/tzara.html

By Tristan Tzara
http://www.ralphmag.org/AR/dada.html

See also Princeton Encyclopedia, "DaDa," pps. 268-270.