Dada Din-Din, an opera generated by students at CalArts, is an immersive and interactive soirée featuring original compositions, sonic collages, improvisations, and extended vocalizations.
A dinner party/performance featuring Futurist recipes from F. T. Marinetti’s La Cucina Futurista (1932) and selections from the student-generated opera Dada Din-Din. Dishes include such delicacies as Aerofood, in which the diner eats an olive, then a kumquat, then some fennel with the right hand while stroking a tactile accompaniment of velvet, silk, and sandpaper with the left.
Dada Divas take the stage at downtown Los Angeles’ center for innovative visual, performing, and media arts in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex.
An expanded rendition of Dada Divas on the Festival Vértice at Mexico City's famed Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo.
Dada Divas is joined by renowned Dutch vocalist/composer Jaap Blonk in a celebration of Dada's centenary, intermingling vignettes from Dada Divas with Dada sound poetry. With Jaap Blonk, Jacqueline Bobak, Carmina Escobar, and Meltem Ege.
Dada Divas caps off the celebratory two-week long Dada World Fair with a performance at the new Swissnex facility on San Francisco's Embarcadero. Performed by Jacqueline Bobak, Carmina Escobar, and Micaela Tobin. Directed by Cordelia Istel. Sound design by Mark Bobak.
A guerilla-like interruption in the middle of an event at San Francisco's Weinstein Gallery as part of the Dada World Fair. Featuring Jacqueline Bobak, Carmina Escobar, and Micaela Tobin in a short preview of the next evening's performance.
A "pop-up" performance at San Francisco's iconic City Lights Bookstore as part of the Dada World Fair. Featuring Micaela Tobin performing Jacqueline Bobak's Spawn of Fantasies, and a reading by the ghost of Mina Loy at this Dada Seance.
A "pop-up" performance at San Francisco's Mechanics' Institute Library and Chess Room as part of the Dada World Fair. Featuring Jacqueline Bobak, Carmina Escobar, and Micaela Tobin performing Bobak's Shuttle-cock and Battle-door on a text by Mina Loy.
The premiere of a new staging of Dada Divas at the XIII Festival Internacional Música Nueva in Monterrey, Mexico. Performed by Jacqueline Bobak, Carmina Escobar, and Micaela Tobin; directed by Cordelia Istel; with sound design by Mark Bobak.
Rubbish, a performance project generated by students at CalArts, illuminates the neglected but brilliant and bizarre women of the Dada movement through the lens of the modern woman.
Rubbish, a performance project generated by students at CalArts, illuminates the neglected but brilliant and bizarre women of the Dada movement through the lens of the modern woman.
A two-week intensive brainstorming and writing workshop, offered during the CalArts Interim session, for students involved in the Dada Divas Invade CalArts project. This workshop is designed for students to gather in a relaxed atmosphere and collaborate on imagining and creating the structure, form, and content of the spring 2016 Dada Divas Invade CalArts performance project.
A semi-staged preview performance and first phase of this experimental odyssey through the works and lives of Dada artists Emmy Hennings, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Mina Loy. Featuring vocalists Jacqueline Bobak, Carmina Escobar, and Micaela Tobin, with sound design by Mark Bobak.
A concert presentation of some music featured in the initial phase of this experimental odyssey through the works and lives of Dada artists Emmy Hennings, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Mina Loy. Featuring vocalists Jacqueline Bobak, Carmina Escobar, and Micaela Tobin, with sound design by Mark Bobak.
“Dada Divas: Then and Now” discusses the creative works, ideas, and lives of important female artists who were among the originators of the Dada movement: Emmy Hennings, Mina Loy, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and others. The lecture illuminates historical and artistic contributions by women who have been overshadowed by their male counterparts, discusses some remarkable similarities in these artists’ lives, and comments on such larger issues as the status of women, emigrée life, war, and other concerns that are as relevant today as they were a hundred years ago.
“Dada Divas: A 100-Year Odyssey” discusses the creative works, ideas, and lives of important female artists such as Emmy Hennings, Mina Loy, and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who were among the originators of the Dada movement. The lecture also traces how the music of Dada Divas—whose preview performance will be at the Orli Theater in Brno later this week—is developed from various aspects of these artists' lives and artistic movements with which they were associated, and how it relates their era to ours by incorporating such contemporary practices as noise, sound art, experimental music, and performance art.
