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...I think there was a dada influence there and it really spoke to me,” she says....
...Byrne, says Parson, is “a gold mine of dance ideas” and American Utopia’s choreographic references were multifarious: Japanese bunraku puppetry, Indian street dance, dada, the films of Chris Marker....
...Among the most sublime dancers of his generation, the 58-year-old is celebrated equally for his visionary and transgressive stagecraft, with its elements of dada, punk and pop, his insouciance, and his disregard...
...It’s not dada or punk, it’s not a protest era or an era of disruption. “We are living through a pandemic and in the ricochet of the financial crisis....
...Declared a lunatic, he retreated to the lucid madness of Dada. Later he moved to Paris, touched surrealist circles, then became a refugee of Nazism....
...His collages fuse the preoccupations of Victorian ladies with Dada-esque flourishes and bold homoeroticism. His sculptures – he called them “assemblies” – redeem refuse with morbid elegance....
...Their ‘messthetics’ combine scattered references to Dada poetry, post-punk edge, pseudo-traditional echoes, anti-Greek claims and the use of overt dyslexia.”...
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