Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich)

Other founding members were Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp.

It is currently operating as a museum, bar and cultural space open to the public, at Spiegelgasse 1, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland.

Ball and Hennings approached Ephraim Jan, patron of the Holländische Meierei at Spiegelgasse 1, which had already hosted Zurich's first literary cabaret, the Pantagruel in 1915.

In principle, the Cabaret will be run by artists, permanent guests, who, following their daily reunions, will give musical or literary performances.

Though the cabaret was to be the birthplace of the Dadaist movement,[7] it featured artists from every sector of the avant-garde, including Futurism's Marinetti.

Among the participating artists were Ingo Giezendanner, Lennie Lee, Leumund Cult, Mickry3, xeno volcano, elektra sturmschnell, Aiana Calugar, and Dan Jones.

A new cabaret has since opened in the building, with an extensive programme of events such as, Hugo Ball: Fuga saeculi, in 2008, curated by Bazon Brock and included a performance of Gabriella Daris's corporeal poem LopLop: WORD or WOman biRD (an homage to Max Ernst's namesake collage from 1921)[11][12] as well as a film projection by Werner Nekes, and the 2008 exhibition Dreamachine: David Woodard, Sheela Birnstiel, Christian Kracht.

[13][14][15]: 201 More recently, Cabaret Voltaire has adopted personalities and celebrated them as Dadaists, such as Alexander Archipenko, Tatsuo Okada and Mikhail Bakunin.