Dadaist Syncretism – Assumptions

Abstract

There have been made distinctions and approximations between Dada and futurism, cubism and surrealism. The same with regard to the load of (political) anarchism in Dada. My article is about the experimental and performative side of the Dada phenomenon. Of course, there is a comprehensive spirit of the avant-garde, just as there is a Saeculum of modernity. Dada, however, functioned as a crucible that took over the experimental openings of the moment and potentiated them to a level rarely surpassed until today. Any contemporary performance could claim its origin, better said must claim, from Cabaret Voltaire. What could be the typology of Dada performance?