100 years ago today, on February 5, 1916, the now-legendary Cabaret Voltaire—the artist hangout that gave birth to the Dada movement—was opened in Zurich. It all started with a “Dada Evening” ...

Zurich is considered to be the launching point of Dada and the Cabaret Voltaire the sine qua non of Dada performance spaces. Join this celebration of the 100th anniversary of one of the key birth ...

Stephen Mallinder on the first decade of the Cabs, creating anti-fascist dance routines and the search for the ultimate drum machine.

Earlier this month, the renowned Cabaret Voltaire celebrated a century of operation. Yet despite its notoriety as the birthplace of Dada, the Zurich theater has been struggling financially, and ...

“I would never have thought that something like this could happen in Switzerland,” the gallerist Maria Bernheim told the Swiss newspaper NZZ on Friday 7 June. That day, the façade of her Zurich ...

Zurich was the birthplace of one of the most influential avant-garde movements of the 20th century. In Dadaism, art and life were meant to merge; materials from the surroundings were utilised, there ...

The sustained provocations to order, decency, taste and common sense unleashed at the infamous Cabaret Voltaire in neutral Zurich during the war-torn February of 1916 have never really been matched; ...

Welcome to a unique and immersive poetry event that takes poetry outside classrooms and lecture halls and places it in the lush interiors of a bordello. The Madame presents a rotating cast of poets, ...

Second-year Master of Fine Arts candidate Hope Mirlis is bringing the Dada Cabaret to downtown Davis and the university. “The Dada Cabaret should make people smile, as well as think,” said Mirlis, the ...

This article originally appeared in the February 1988 issue of SPIN. The white uniform, the flaking red lips, the spectral white support hose approach. Time to make a decision about the future. At ...