Washington St.įlicker Theatre & Bar becomes Cabaret Voltaire 1916 with a performance of Futurist poetry by visiting artist Luciano Chessa, “An Evening at the Cabaret Voltaire” Dada reenactments by students from the UGA Department of Theatre and Film Studies, a performance of Erik Satie’s “Trois morceaux en forme de poire” by UGA Music students Crystal Wu and Emma Lin, a presentation by Jed Rasula, author of “Destruction Was My Beatrice,” costumes, musical surprises, and much more! Lanier Chair of the Department of English at UGA present three evenings of performance and scholarship in celebration of the centennial year of Dada and experimental art for all time.įlicker Theatre & Bar, 263 W. Sponsored by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and the Helen S. Burroughs, Robert Rauschenberg, Marshall McLuhan, the Beatles, Monty Python, David Byrne, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, all of whom – along with untold others – owe a debt to the bizarre wartime escapades of the Dada vanguard.
The long tail of Dadaism can be traced even further, to artists as diverse as William S.
Three evenings of events to celebrate the centennial of Dada, an artistic phenomenon that began in February 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland and spread around the world! Although the venue where Dada was born closed after only four months and its acolytes scattered, the idea of Dada quickly spread to New York, where it influenced artists like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray to Berlin, where it inspired painters George Grosz and Hannah Hoch and to Paris, where it dethroned previous avant-garde movements like Fauvism and Cubism while inspiring early Surrealists like Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard.
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