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| Cubist witchdoctor outfit which Ball wore when he went into a trance during a chanting sound performance. |
During the war (WWI) 1,000,000 people died, which had a huge impact on the world at the time. The main impact was that, every country had some form of war going on, except for the two neutral countries; USA & Switzerland.
At that time, Hugo Ball and Emmy Hemmings, decided to open a expressional art bar in Zurich. They rented a vacant room with the promise that the new vacancy would have more opportunity for the landlord to sell more sausages and beers due to the amount of people who'd come. However, things didn't go to plan towards the end (but I will come to that later.) The bar they had opened was named Cabaret Voltaire and was the birth of Dadaism.
Here are the profiles of the primary input of the Cabaret Voltaire:
Hugo Ball
- Germany
- Poet, performer, creator of the Cabaret Voltaire
- Germany
- Regular performances at Cabaret Voltaire; also a poet
- Aged 19
- Poet from Romania/France
- Aged 20's
- Dancer, puppeteer, poet from Switzerland
The nightly performances became pure angst and it instantly became a problem because people would be very angry and leave.
The word dada was found by inserting a knife into a dictionary which they put their finger onto a random word; which resulted in the word Dada.
Dada means lots of different words around the world -
Yes yes in Russian
Hobby horse in French
and many more things in different languages also.
"Everything and nothing in the same breath."
Because Dada means a lot in a lot of languages, the above quote is quoted by Hugo Ball.
Marcel Yonko made some masks for people who chanted and rythmed a tune; somewhat african influenced, which people were not impressed.
"The word and the image are known"
Hugo Ball.
Words had seized to mean anything, corrupted by politicians. Ball decided the only way was through sound. (SOUND POETRY.)
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