TATA DADA / THE REAL LIFE AND CELESTIAL ADVENTURES OF TRISTAN TZARA

Tristan Tzara, one of the most important figures in the twentieth century's most famous avant-garde movements, was born Samuel Rosen stock (or Samueli Rosenstok) in a provincial Romanian town, on April 16 (or 17, or 14, or 28) in 1896. Tzara became Tzara twenty yea rs later at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, when he and others (including Marcel Janco, Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Hans Arp ) invented Dada with a series of chaotic performances including multilingual (and nonlingual) shouting, music, drumming, and calisth enics. W...[Read more]