What the nose knows of an artist's hand Mar 18, 2009
He landed roles in political plays like "Randlords and Rotgut." He was a goat in the children's drama "The Goat That Sneezed." He played the Dada leader Tristan Tzara in a Market Theater production of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," and today his affinities with Dada surface in the spontaneity and fluidity of his image-making. Even as his art-world career took off over the last two decades, he adapted several dramas and operas, including puppet dramas. (International Herald Tribune)
Dazzling wordplay Mar 1, 2009
As Tristan Tzara (de)constructs Dadaist poetry with scissors and a hat, James Joyce dictates impenetrable passages of his novel Ulysses ... Across the road at No1 stood the Meirei Bar, home of the Cabaret Voltaire, the crucible of Dadaism, a modernist art movement based on chance founded by (among others) the expatriate Romanian Tristan Tzara. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Travesties' missing the Wilde wit Feb 21, 2009
Now in his dotage, Carr (played by Diego Matamoros in a yet another pique of technical earnestness) finds his recollections of Joyce (David Storch) and his production of Earnest all wrapped up with memories, either real or imagined, of early Dada-ist poet Tristan Tzara (Jordan Pettle) and one Vladamir Ilyich Ulyanov (Oliver Dennis) before he made a name for himself as a fellow named Lenin, both of whom happened to be in Zurich at this same time. Maggie Huculak is along for the ride as Mrs.... (Jam! Showbiz)
Manifesto mania Feb 21, 2009
Two years later, the Dada manifesto was recited by Hugo Ball at a cabaret in Zurich, and then rewritten in 1918 by Tristan Tzara who summed up manifesto writing succinctly: "To put out a manifesto you must want A B C and fulminate against 1 2 3.". The year 1930 saw the Concrete Art manifesto ("Art is Universal"), the Manifesto of Mural Painting followed in 1933, and let's not forget Andre Breton's two Surrealist Manifestos, from 1924 ("Surrealism will usher you into death") and 1929 ("Run down... (BBC News -- Europe)
Art Review: Why university museums matter Feb 20, 2009
These are surrounded by prints illustrating the works of Ovid and Aristophanes and others that accompanied, without exactly illustrating, poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara and Picasso himself. 1. (International Herald Tribune)
Finding Travesties in the Stoppard archives Feb 19, 2009
Okay, so James Joyce, Lenin and Dadaist Tristan Tzara walk into a library in Zurich in 1917 Stoppard if you think you've heard this one before. Soulpepper Theatre Company continues its journey through British playwright Tom Stoppard's rich back catalogue with 1974's Travesties, a Tony winner in which the aforementioned writer, revolutionary and artist meet in neutral Switzerland during the First World War. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
