In addition to dancing, Taeuber-Arp's contribution to the Dada genre included a series of wooden heads ("Dada heads"), which she fashioned out of hat stands and on which she painted stylized geometric faces, including one of Jean Untitledd [Dada Head, Portrait of Hans Arp], 1918).
Emerging amid the wholesale slaughter of World War I, Dada was the heading for a series of incendiary acts at various clubs and cabarets — noise as music, nonsense as poetry — that managed to be both utopian and nihilistic.
As such he may be seen as both Dada's theorist and head sapper – except that Dada would never have accepted a leader and Tzara rejected hierarchy or system.
The troupe marches one by one in front of Mr. Kentridge's mucky charcoal animations, carrying cutout placards of flags, boats, gramophones and planes, as well as portrait busts of African intellectuals and an effigy of Raoul Hausmann's "Mechanical Head," a Dada artifact of 1919.
It got critical acclaim for the direction by Mahesh Manjrekar, its screenplay by Girish Joshi and for the performances by its actors, especially Sachin Khedekar for his portrayal of Hari Dada Damle as the head of the family.
"If you can halfway see and can follow a little direction, then these classes are for you," said Vivian Nixon, the head of DADA Fit, a fitness-dance program based at her mother's studio, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, where classes include Make Me Sweat, which incorporates dance moves from Bollywood, African tribal, twerking and more.
One photograph in "En Una Situación Dada" shows a boy, his head tilted back, with a plastic spoon held to his nose by static electricity.
"What does Islamist mean?" asks Omar al-Dada, a doctor who heads a small, independent fighting group in Raqqa province.
Instead, head to Montclair, N.J., where "Man and Boy: Dada" opens on Wednesday at the Alexander Kasser Theater at Montclair State University.
Other spheres of thought under the general heading of this cultural paradigm include The New Sincerity, metamodern dada, "oscillatory" metamodernism, and a neo-Marxist metamodernism invested in discussions of how late capitalism produced the end of postmodernism's hegemony.
