Cabaret Voltaire — Where Dada Was Born & Zurich's Cultural Underground
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Cabaret Voltaire — Where Dada Was Born & Zurich's Cultural Underground

Cabaret Voltaire (Spiegelgasse 1, Niederdorf, Zurich — the bar and performance space where the Dada movement was founded on February 5, 1916, by Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Sophie Taeuber): the founding of Dada in neutral Zurich in 1916 — by a group of artists and writers who had fled the madness of World War I — was one of the defining moments in 20th-century cultural history; Dada's anti-art, anti-logic, and anti-war stance, expressed through nonsense poetry, collage, performance art, and the deliberate rejection of conventional aesthetics, directly influenced Surrealism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Punk, and virtually every subsequent avant-garde movement in the 20th century.

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