POETRY READING – BOOK LAUNCH – PERFORMANCE – MUSIC

Astounding, Ground-Breaking, Subversive: a Celebration of the DADA dolls & art of Emmy Hennings, Hannah Höch, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
CHRISTINE KENNEDY
Hobby Horse: A PUPPET PLAY FOR CABARET VOLTAIRE

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DAVID ANNWN, MICK BECK & JOHN COWEY
RunDADAnella: A ROUND DANCE POEM WITH MUSIC TUESDAY 24th May

£5.00 (Waged) & £3.00 (Unwaged) – Wine provided
8.00pm for 8.30 start

Over the Top, 78 Kingfield Road, Nether Edge, SHEFFIELD S11 9AU Access by 22 or 10 buses, near the Union pub. Easy parking.

ABOUT DADADOLLZ
The Over The Top music series hosts this evening of poetry with performance and music as the Sheffield launch of the publication of Dadadollz. Dadadollz celebrates the women Dada artists of the Cabaret Voltaire at the great moment of flowering of modern and radical art during the years of the First World War. Dada artists, Emmy Hennings, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Hannah Hoch made and exhibited dolls for plays, revue catalogues, posters and photographs. ‘The Stag King’ was a Puppet play for Dada Zurich. Hoch’s photo-collages also featured myriad dolls.Dadadollz is a collaboration where Christine Kennedy and David Annwn have created new doll works and images: a Puppet play and a RunDADanella, or round-song and live music, to celebrate these women’s achievements. The Hadron Collider and Elle are just two of the artifacts drawn into the vortex.

Dadadollz is published in 2010 by ISPress ISBN 0-9533897-5-8
Copies are available at the Sheffield event on 24th April, and by post from ISPress, 3 Westfield Park College Grove, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England WF1 3RP

Christine Kennedy is a writer and artist based in Sheffield, and David Annwn is a poet based in Wakefield. David’s live project also involves haunting and playful neo-Dadaist collaboration with saxophonist Mick Beck and guitarist John Cowey.

These innovative musicians gleefully take the RunDADAnella apart from the inside, Mick’s magisterial, unpredictable free-form and John’s skilful feel for cabaret folk opening new musical perspectives, sparring and combining in irrepressible high spirits. This is a real first for poetry and music, in Sheffield & everywhere.