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POPULAR THEATRE IN THE AVAN-GARDE FUTURIST VARIETY THEATRE AND DADAIST CABARET

Branislav Oblučar


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Abstract

This essay discusses the ambivalent status of popular culture in the context of historic avant-garde by using the example of popular theatre. Marinetti’s manifesto »Futurist Variety Theatre« and the Dada activities in Cabaret Voltaire, just as the Dadaist performances in Croatia, show that the avant-garde artists used the forms of popular entertainment to incite the participation of the audience, to criticize the bourgeois institution of art and to bring the innovations to the sphere of performance. At the same time, those artists tried to keep for themselves the exclusive status of the »taste professionals« (Walter Adamson), who don’t want to give the audience the privilege to judge the matters of art.

Keywords

avant-garde; popular theatre; variety theatre; audience; cabaret; futurism; dada

Hrčak ID:

200200

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/200200

Publication date:

9.5.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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