Diagramming Dada: Dance, Poetry and Gender in the Archives of the Avant-Garde

September 22, 2023

Doors: 6:30 PM | Talk Begins: 7 PM | Theatre

How to preserve for the purposes of repetition what is intended to be ephemeral? This traditional task of the score or diagram was put under pressure by the poets and dancers associated with the Dada movement in Zurich during the years of the First World War who invented new forms of notations for their chaotic dance and poetic performances. It will also reflect on the status of gender in Zurich Dada and the limitations of the archive.

This lecture is extended as a public program of Carol Sawyer: The Natalie Brettschneider Archive.