The Cabaret Voltaire is the birthplace of the Dada movement, which emerged in Zurich in 1916 and, in the midst of the war, awakened the need to question the present with new artistic forms. Today, its cross-disciplinary legacy remains at the centre. ...
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New Kyd, «Chanson Noire»
How can a human attempt to appropriate and create a bird song? But without irony?
How to do this?
How to become a hooded pitohui or a blackbird, perhaps even, just a symbol for one?
A true one, with sincere integrity?
The evening brings together music, dance, experimentation and political allegory. The evening moves between dance, performance art and staged unravelling. Calling in darkness, while flying as close to the light as bearable possible. Singing an ancient song while dancing in the silence of the moonlight. A lament with the entire body.
The work addresses Marcel Janco’s 1916 Dadaist designs for Chant n_— in which African and Oceanic art, poetry, and music served as important sources of inspiration. Suzanne Perrottet describes how deeply she was moved by them.
«Chanson Noire» and the «Political Marketplace» by New Kyd (February 13, 2026) draw on the experimental legacy of Cabaret Voltaire while testing contemporary modes of politically charged performance and social political critique.
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Thursday, February 26, 2026
20:00 - 23:59 o'clock
Cabaret Voltaire
Spiegelgasse 1
8001 Zürich
