Performance Art pages 38-55

• Production art was an ethical proclamation by the constructionists
• Broke down traditional element of French medical court face.
• Productions: called The Twins and The Theater of the four masks 
• Students are active in designing productions for Mastfor.

Revolutionary performances:

• Foregger was developing mechanistic art form
• Mechanical Dances
• Mass demonstration was organized by Nathan Altman 
• Red army was involved 
• represented revolutionary activists 

Magnificent Cuckold:

• Talks about how the stage consisted of frames of conventional theatre flats, platforms, and chutes.
• Characters new acrobatics 
• loose fitting overalls

Blue blouse and the factory of the eccentric actor

• overtly political
• involved more than 100000 people 
• in news papers 
• They were also circus actors, in film, and other productions.

Moscow is burning

• Was experiencing cultural riot 
• 1905 revolution 
• commissioned by the soviet central agency 

DADA 

• expressionist theatre performances 
• Dada activists began at the Cabaret voltaire in Zurich
• His plays were no less controversial. 
• Kokoschka in Vienna 
• Wedekinds travelled beyond Munich 
• Tried to align his work with expressionism 
• Demonstrated that the move with variations of pitch and rhythm
• Ball in Zurich 
• Hugo ball and Emmy Hennings arrived in Zurich in summer of 1915 
• Henning recently got out of prison 
• Ball was obsessed with understanding the German culture,
• wrote endless texts on philosophical malaise of time.