Word: cabaret
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...when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened a caf?-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted a knife into a French-German dictionary; it pointed to the word...
...Over the years the Cabaret Voltaire fell into disrepair. The building was occupied by a succession of nightclubs, bars and squatters until 2002, when the city parliament, spurred by local artists, earmarked $993,000 to renovate the landmark and reopen it as an informal Dadaist venue...
...when the subversive art form was in its heyday. Yet nearly a hundred years later, people are still visiting the nerve center of this willfully useless movement. In 1916 the German poet Hugo Ball, who lived in Zurich at the time, opened a café-cum-theater called Cabaret Voltaire, where Tzara, Hans Arp and other nonconformist artists gathered. It was in the Cabaret's upstairs room that the group is said to have decided to find a name as incongruous as their free-form art. They randomly inserted a knife into a French-German dictionary; it pointed...
...Richie has known everyone. But what elevates his writing is that he is equally interested in the cabaret doorman, the homeless straggler, the aging streetwalker he engages in conversation. A man of huge cultivation, he clearly models his journals on Proust and Boswell: thus silvery evocations of the musical soir?es of Tokyo high society are followed by disheveled erotic adventures in the park on the way home. Richie's especial fascination seems to be with faces and deceiving surfaces, designs and strategies, and he is always wise to his own acts. "Another country, I am discovering, is another self...
...that jazz. Harvard’s leading vocalists join in this musical revue featuring the works of Kander and Ebb. This celebrated songwriting team is most known for their music in Chicago, Cabaret, and Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Adams House Drama Society. Tickets $5; $4 Adams residents/seniors. Harvard Box Office (617) 496-2222. 8 p.m. Through Oct. 30. Adams House Pool Theatre, 13 Bow Street...