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Formalism & Constructivism

... STYLES

dada welcoms you

Reaction to Realism

Dada & Brecht

"webdada"?

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada * Dada & BioMechanics Related Pages:

Formalism

Symbolism

Non-Real and Absurd (read before or after)!

Epic Theatre and deconstruction

Summary

I use this page to support Non-Realistic Theatre ideas and the Theatre of the Absurd (historical perspective). Also, for my acting and directing classes.

Questions

beckett page reference * Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook of Radical Thinking Herbert Blau, University of Wisconsin: "The selections are wide-ranging, historically informed, judicious ... the commentary by Drain is marked by its fluency and unpretentiousness.."

Notes

Dada and Surrealist Performance (Paj Books) The anarchic Dada movement is the subject of continuing interest among literary and cultural studies scholars as well as among theater professionals. In Dada and Surrealist Performance Annabelle Melzer describes the founding of the movement among the Zurich performance collective known as the Cabaret Voltaire -- including Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Francois Picabia, and Wassily Kandinksy -- and traces its scandalous history through the rift in the 1920s that separated Dada, with its dedication to political provocation, from the more contemplative Surrealism.

German Expressionism

Dada:

Mama Dada:

Belgian Modernism

Modern French Theatre

V. Meyerhold:

2006. I do not remember when and why I made this page. NTL, I use Dada texts rehearsing Godot. Next -- Pinter (Fall).

Dada and Surrealist Performance (PAJ Books) (Paperback) by Annabelle Melzer 0801848458

Dada Performance (PAJ Publications) (Paperback) by Mel Gordon (Editor) 1555540112

Expressionist Texts (PAJ Publications) (Paperback) by Mel Gordon (Editor) 1555540139
Expressionism has been a dominant force in painting, film, graphics, theatre, literature, and music throughout the twentieth century. Several of the classics of the style are represented in this volume, including: Sphinx and the Strawman by Oskar Kokoschka, Sancta Susanna by August Stramm, From Morn to Midnight by Georg Kaiser, Ithaka by Gottfried Benn, The Son by Walter Hasenclever, The Transfiguration by Ernst Toller, Crucifixion by Lothar Schreyer.

Theatre in Dada and surrealism (Unknown Binding) by J. H Matthews 0815600976
The anarchic Dada movement is the subject of continuing interest among literary and cultural studies scholars as well as among theater professionals. In Dada and Surrealist Performance Annabelle Melzer describes the founding of the movement among the Zurich performance collective known as the Cabaret Voltaire -- including Tristan Tzara, Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Francois Picabia, and Wassily Kandinksy -- and traces its scandalous history through the rift in the 1920s that separated Dada, with its dedication to political provocation, from the more contemplative Surrealism.

Dada: Art and Anti-Art (World of Art) (Paperback) by Hans Richter
"Where and how Dada began is almost as difficult to determine as Homer's birthplace," writes Hans Richter, who was associated with the movement from its early days. Here, through selections from key manifestos and other documents of the time, he records Dada's history, from its beginnings in wartime Zurich to its collapse in the Paris of the 1920s. Dada led on from Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism, and in turn prepared the way for Surrealism. It was enlivened by bizarre and extravagant personalities, notably Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Man Ray, whose contributions are fully discussed. The spirit of Dada reappeared in the 1960s in movements such as Pop Art, which are surveyed in the final section.

The Dada Painters and Poets : An Anthology, Second Edition (Paperbacks in Art History) (Paperback) by Jack D. Flam (Foreword), Robert Motherwell (Editor)
"This handsome volume," said LJ's reviewer (4/1/52) presents "those pronouncements in art and literature which should have meaning still . . . ." Originally published in 1951, this is a paperback reprint of the second edition (1981) of one of the first books written in English dealing with Dada; it's still one of the best.-- MR Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

http://www.jwz.org/dadadodo/


ARNALDO CORRADINI [GINNA] and BRUNO CORRA

[ Also, Dada & Biomechanics ]

Alternation of Character / Alternazione di Carattere

[ in class ]
HUSBAND: No. It is useless. It is time to finish it! I shall not deceive myself any longer because I make you cry immediately!

WIFE (crying): No! Carlo no! . . . come here . . . come here . . listen to me! ...

HUSBAND (crying tenderly): Pardon me, Rosetta! Pardon me!

WIFE (enraged): For God's sake! If you don't stop with this inopportune sentimentality, I will slap you...

HUSBAND (at the height of his fury): Enough! . . . or I shall hurl you out of the window...

WIFE: Darling! Darling! How much I love you! Tenderness grips my heart . . . give me again your delicious reprimands.

HUSBAND: Ah! Rosetta. . . Rosetta! . . . my infinite love...

WIFE (exasperated): If you repeat that another time, I will divorce you! . . . (Precisely.) I will divorce you!..

HUSBAND (exploding): Ah! Ah! Wretch! . . . go away! . . . go away! . . . go away! ...

WIFE: I have never loved you more sweetly!

HUSBAND: Ah! Rosetta! Rosetta! ...

WIFE: Enough . . . (She slaps him.)

HUSBAND: Enough, I say. (Slaps her twice.)

WIFE (languidly): Give me your lips! Give me your lips...

HUSBAND: Here, treasure!

CURTAIN
(Texts from Dada Performance PAJ Publications, NY 1987 Ed. Mel Gorden)

Pre-pro I: Dada, Futurism, Surrealism

If you are in the show "Fish in A Tree" go through the links to read, to see, to understand!

Links (old):
Short tour of the Net & Web:

Past, Present and Future of Art-Protest

Dada Page

Manifesto

What is Dada?

Definitions

* Connections with the Situationalist International (Society of Spectacle), philosophy and politics. And - the anarchists. And Punk culture!

[IMG Picasso 2 -- pix are missing ]

FUTURISM

[ futurism.org.uk ]

[ IMG Picasso 3 ] Picasso (from Lycos Free Gallery)
SURREALISM

www.artcyclopedia.com/history/surrealism.html

Mayakovsky rolled Futurism till 1930 and then shot himself. How much futurism can you swallow when your phone rings all the time?
Futurists didn't noticed that they advocated the world without man... that is what we have.
Possible, possible. The world full of men without a single man. The more they you have the less of individual you get. Very Marxist in tendency. Our technology believes in Marxism.

Meyerhold's Biomechanics and his constructivism -- stage as machine. Actors = acrobats. Or workers!

Chekhov would think that Meyerhold went mad; he always thought that Meyerhold got too much brains to be an actor.

Our futurism (science fiction) is different -- horrific! The stage-machine is after actors! That's why they can't act...


Present day political situation: links are dead!

Censoring Internet
Free speech and the Supreme Court ...
The great Art is... POLITICAL? Dada didn't want to be engaged in politics as entertainment and this refusal is a political statement. Very much like punk culture is a statement -- the rejection!
Unfortunately, we don't know our roots... Postmodern doesn't credit Dada.


[ MuseumLink ]

Antirealism and Theatricality Topics: Meyerhold, dada, Surrealism, Futurism * Terms: Meyerhold (1874-1940) * stylized theatre * cabotin * biomechanics * defamiliarization * avant-garde * "Ubu Roi" (1896) * Alfred Jarry * Sigmund Freud * "The Interpretation of Dreams" (1899) * Carl Jung * archetypes * collective unconscious * expressionism * Georg Kaiser * "Gas I" * Edward Munch * Jessner* Futurism * Marinetti * Prampolini * sintesi * bruitisme * Tristan Tzara * surrealism * Andre Breton * Apollinaire * "The Breasts of Tiresias" * Jean Cocteau * "The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party"

I. Meyerhold

A. Core issues
1. Naturalism limits the imagination
2. Conscious stylization
3. Non-representational staging
4. Theatre of the triangle vs. straight line
5. Defamiliarization
B. Acting - biomechanics
1. innate capacity of reflex excitability
2. physical competence
3. intention-realization-reaction

II. Alfred Jarry (1873-1907)

A. Ubu Roi
B. Subjectivist approach C. Lugne-Poe's Theatre de l'Oeuvre

III. New Aesthetic Movements

A. Attempt to find new modes of expression
B. Influence of Freud's theories of the unconscious
C. Symbolism - truth is in dreams and intuition
D. Jung - cultural spread cannot account for the themes in dreams and visions
E. New interest in myth, archetype and symbol as keys to unconscious and art

F. Expressionism

1. Used in 1901 to distinguish group of paintings
2. "Die Brucke" group of artists
3. rejection of traditional forms
4. The material representation of a subjective state of being or experience through the use of stereotypes, stylization and instinctively derived symbols.

G. Futurism
1. Glorified energy and speed of machine age and war
2. Against museum art.
3. Argued that utilitarian objects are more beautiful than traditional works of art
4. bruitisme (music) - dynamic noise
5. sintesi (short plays) - jarring the spectators

H. dada
1. Tristan Tzara (1917)
2. Literary and artistic movement
3. Nihilistic

I. Surrealism
1. Breton breaks with dada (1923)
2. Apollinaire
3. Subjective, unpremeditated, inspired

PS

Theories leave very little time to analize the texts!

Must connect with METHODS (Marxism, socialism, communism, utopia and etc.)

Pata-Theatre and Para-Theatre in web-theatre directory. Total Theatre & Beyond Theatre (web directory links).

This is for 413 class only.

Homework

[ see Dada Page in Biomechanics directory ]
Next: postmodern & film
Film600: Bad Theory & Wrong Subjects

School/Movement - Dadaism
Dates - Zurich 1916-1917, Berlin 1919-1920, Cologne/Hanover 1918-1923, Paris 1920-1924

Description/Philosophy
Farce of nothingness
Dance based, melting pot of all artform
Anti-audience, but relied on audience
Rejected concept of art, were anti-war, many were refugees
Opposed tradition, subverted values of Boug. society, offered lies and insults, made use of masks/dances/music, bare stages
Anti-actor - performer is herself, no costume or a masquerade outfit
Art was a private affair - done for self

Founder/Key Influences
Hugo Ball, Emmie Hemmings
Manifestos - there were 7 composed between 1916-1920
Tristan Tzara - “First Celestial Experience of Antiphaline”

Plays and Playwrights
Simultaneous poetry bruitism spontaneity-basis for act
Plays had vague concern for future or none at all
Mainly based on improvisation, they loved to wing it
Plays were brief containing phrases, gibberish, free standing vowels, emphasis on sound not meaning

Other Important Names
Duchamp Mertz -collages
Artists framed household objects and called it art - wanted to knock art off its pedistal
Music - brutist music, sounds - natural rather than machine, homemade but natural

For Future Reference
Videos - Art in the 20th Century (series)
Dada Almanac - Richard Hulsenbeck
Dada Performance. . ., Dada and Surrealist Perform . . - see surrealism

http://www.geocities.com/shalyndria13/ref1.htm

Dada/About (in Russian) + http://www.danielcharms.com

Blue Notebook No. 10
or The Red-Haired Man

Once, there was a red-haired man who had neither eyes nor ears. He had no hair either so he was called "red-haired" only theoretically.

He could not speak since he had no mouth. He didn't have a nose either.

He had neither legs nor arms. He had no stomach, no back, no spine, and he had no insides whatsoever. He had nothing at all! Therefore, it's not clear who we are actually talking about.

In fact, we would rather not talk about him any more.

[ M. Levitin, Hermitage Theatre, Moscow -- Russian Stage Directors ]

Falling Old Ladies

A certain old lady, out of excessive curiosity, fell out of a window and splattered on the ground.

Another old lady peeked out of the window, staring down at the remains of the first one, but she also, out of excessive curiosity, fell out of the window and splattered on the ground.

Then a third old lady fell out of the window, then a fourth, then a fifth.

By the time the sixth old lady fell out of the window, I got bored watching them and went to Maltsev market where, they say, someone gave a knitted shawl to a certain blind man.

[ http://www.danielcharms.com/charms/plays/play3.html ]


DaDa Online http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics

Dada webmuseum, paris [summary] http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/dada

INTERNATIONAL DADA ARCHIVE www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/dada.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada

http://www.tranquileye.com/theatre/dada_theatre.html

http://www.salisbury.edu/theatre/Dada/dada%20timeline.htm

... photo-art : expressionism [ caligari'09 ]
From My Shows

Dada slideshow NYT

The ABC's of DADA (1 of 3)

... and popart?