Day de Dada Performance Art Collective is a cooperative of performance artists based in NY. The group plans, sponsors, and enacts spontaneous, experimental performance art pieces with audience participation & interaction
To celebrate 20 years of Day de Dada Performance Art we gathered on Saturday, 4/30/22 at Amira Cafe on Van Duzer St, Staten Island across from the site of the group’s first performance art event at the Muddy Cup. Many friends and artists joined us, performed, or sent scores.
Day de Dada spontaneous, experimental, audience participation, and fun! Here’s to 20 more years!
Performances and Scores by:
Barbara Lubliner
Douglass LaTourette
Jennifer Weigel
Jim Jeffers Jonathan Leiter Joan Moore and Gary Moore Larry Schwabacher Lydia Grey
Margaret Chase Mary Campbell
Milenka Berengolc
Nadette Stasi Philip Sanders Phoebe Blue
Sarah Kolb Staten Island Trash – Wil Wynn, Nanci Richards Viv de Dada
Day de Dada – 20 YEARS CELEBRATION! Saturday, April 30, 2022, at 2 PM EST – 4 PM EST Meet at Amiras Cafe 387 Van Duzer, Staten Island, NY, Stapleton
20 years ago Day de Dada produced the group’s first performance art event at the Muddy Cup on Van Duzer Street in Staten Island!
We will be celebrating that anniversary with Day de Dada artists, reprising/ revising/ recycling previous performances on Sat 4/30/22 from 2 – 4pm.
The Muddy Cup no longer exists on Van Duzer Street so we will be performing across the street on the sidewalk in front of Amira Cafe. Come by and celebrate with us! Perform or just come by to observe, enjoy and take pictures. Amira Cafe will be open for business. Get a coffee or lunch there too.
You are invited to do a short (5 minutes approximately) performance or a visual ongoing piece (costume/headpiece/puppet.) Performers- we would love you to reprise or recycle and update an early performance in keeping with celebrating 20 years of Day de Dada, but remember this is a street performance so there is no electricity or changing rooms, keep it simple.
We hope to take a group photo that day too in front of the old Muddy Cup storefront.
Please let us know at daydedada@yahoo.com if you are planning to perform on 4/30/2220
Can’t make it to Staten Island that day? Send a short dada score to daydedada@yahoo.com. The deadline to submit scores is 4/24/22. We will perform the scores at this or future Day de Dada 20 Year Anniversary events.
Let’s celebrate World Puppet Day! Bring your puppet(s) to our meet-up and have them recite a poem (short one please), something that you or someone else has written.
Any kind of puppet is good, draw lips on your fist, pull out the sock puppet we made last year, or use the fancy one that has been hanging around for years hoping to be activated!
Hansel and Gretel by Cat Doty – Mary Campbell
Why do they always go into the forest? At it’s rim they pause to collect The black green curls of the last sweet chard, And with one swift look at the parents Who cannot feed them, enter, obedient, The prickling black cathedral, the icy pines. Of course, when they’re starving, their house Of cake appears- the freckled, gingery shoulder, Redundant icing- they nibble until They are captured and brought inside, faces Glazed with shame and snot and sugar.
Do you suppose that the mother who sewed red flowers On the little velvet bodice, the green suspenders, Then counted the cupfuls of flour, the mouthfuls Of sausage, and muttered, oh, damn them, Send them to the witch? Witches must eat too, and some Witches must eat children. I bet that gingerbread House was a thing of beauty.
Then there’s the part of the tale where they trick Their hostess, where Hansel says, that’s no chicken bone, That’s my finger, where they flip the witch Into her fire and pilfer her treasure. Then burdened With precious jewels, they rush to their parents, Dropping and emerald here, an opal there. The world, you see, is then brought round to right: Oily joy coats the cottage walls like soot. The children are home, and the thick muck floor of the forest, Be crumbled with jewels, out sparkles the pocky ink Of that other sky.
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ALE ON A SCALE – C. Mehrl Bennett
GRADIENTS OF RAP LATE NOCTURNAL TREES A MAN EATING KANGAROO PUKES WHITE MEAT OF EVE
LASCIVIOUS HEE-HAWS CURIOUS BOWL-SHAPED CHILDREN WE FIXATE ON ICK-ACKINESS To KERN ZEN MOMENTS
ICE IS A LINK, A WARNING FILL IT WITH LIGHT TO ALLAY THIRSTY SNAKES BECAUSE IF LEFT SOBER, THEY BUILD TO A MAJOR RANT
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Under – Morning Rose Garden Sneakers – Liz Klein
under the rosebush Converse Sneakers Twist ties Generic wrappers Rolled up tape Sad eggroll dust Turpentine Stains Roller Blades Carthusian Shades Walrus Hats And a box of free books
Under the rosebush Damp mushrooms Queen Elizabeth Magazine dreams Ana Banana Laughs Stark runners Dead eyes Cold and sneaky Stoli drinkers and squirrels Aimlessly Wearing Walrus Hats Rifle through a box of free books
Under the rosebush Canvas Sneakers Cantaloupe Charred mangos Standard Bocci Ball Condoms Xoxo Label Passing the Ballet Studio Dancing Pig meadow Ceramics dessert Wearing a Walrus Hat A box of free books.
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INNER LIGHT – Meg Graham
Dripping fudge backward time stopped reflecting. Dreaming of white cakewalks. Drinking apples to illuminate and stretch the sunlight To disperse, To Ignite, That inner, inner light.
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Plague Rat Puppet performing Add n Pass vispo to Caged Rat by Soul Asylum – Jennifer Weigel
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Puppet Brain – Viv de Dada
Cerebral finger puppet, a brain with Hand Sticker.
Puppet-like syndrome of Angelman. Autumn drops dead.
Don’t really know why you like me. Are you just starving for someone’s pysche?
Get your own crocheted Brain Slug, Digital Puppets, or Artificial Humans.
These puppets return and hunt a giant figure with wide-open eyes and a bug-like hand puppet.
Art Mind Art – Brain and mind: make me the puppet. Funny how these little crochet brains came into being.
Greetings Bird Brain London with an affinity for the bizarre and unique body, small heart, and tiny brain.
The notion that human beings walk, talk, think, and do things because our brains control us is a fringe idea. What might be happening in your brain when you watch puppetry?
Let’s do a Home Sweet Home Exquisite Corpse. We will start with “Last year I spent a lot of time at home.” and who knows where it will go from there… You can accompany your reading with images or sound and movement.
December 19, 2021 Annual Dada Absurd Gift Exchange
Thank you to everyone who mailed and gifted the wonderful, the odd, the strange, and the dada. We all had a wonderful Zoom Holiday Party!
Participants included Viv de Dada, Barbara Lubliner, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Cathi Schwalbe, Jennifer Weigel, Catherine Mehrl Bennett, John Bennett, Lydia Gray, Margaret Chase, Mary Campbell, Doug Latourette, Meg Graham, Milenka, Berengolc, Tamara Wyndham, Mark Semanchik, and Larry Schwabacher
In April 2002 we held our first “Day de Dada,” a day of Dada Performance Art at the Muddy Cup Coffee House in Staten Island, NY. Creating spontaneous live art that day was such an enjoyable experience that we decided to do it again, and again, until 20 years and over a hundred performance events later here we are. 20 Years of Day de Dada!
Day de Dada started as an experiment. It has grown into a collective, a collaboration, an ongoing live art happening reaching out from Staten Island to include performance events and collaborations across the US, Canada, and Europe.
How are we celebrating this momentous 20-year milestone? Our 2022 theme is “Dada in the House – 20 Years and Beyond!” Our 2022 events and performances will celebrate our Dada Anniversary and our Home Sweet Home World.
Here are some projects we are working on now. More news will be released as plans are finalized.
“Dada Domicile” a 3D Mail Art Show
More 3rd Sunday Zoom Events
Day de Dada Art Anniversary Party
A spontaneous walk/performance on The High Line in Manhattan
“Dada in the House” live stream online visits to artists in their homes
Applying to the Staten Island Museum’s “Yes, And” A survey exhibition of art and artists connected to Staten Island.
Watch our Facebook page for updates facebook.com/DaydeDada . We invite you to join us for the celebrations!
Day de Dada at the Hands-On Mail Art Workshop “Home Sweet Home” at Art All Day on Divison Street, Somerville, NJ. Sat 9/11/21.
How would you describe or draw your Home Sweet Home? It could be a family, a community, a special place, or even a state of mind. At the Day de Dada Mail Art Workshop you’ll have a chance to express your vision and create a Home Sweet Home art piece to mail, share, or take home. “Art All Day” on Division Street
Day de Dada Art Nurse Walkabout – NYC Saturday, August 7, 2021 The Day de Dada Art Nurses are on the move! Join us as we check New York’s creative pulse.