Opera Dada Project

MFA1 – School of Music – VoiceArts

The Opera Dada Project, inspired by the women artists of the Dada movement, features original performance art between 19 collaborators. The Opera Dada Project highlights the voice (both acoustic and electronic) through original music, improvisation, graphic scores, and extended vocal techniques. The pieces within the Opera Dada Project are an eclectic mix ranging from campy to grim and draw from the works of Emmy Hennings, Mina Loy, Baroness Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, Hannah Höch, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Sayako Kishimoto, and Florine Stettheimer, among others. The Opera Dada Project was born from J. Bobak’s Dada’s Divas class. The Opera Dada Project will present pieces alongside the Futurist Dinner Party (another CalArts Expo submission), outside the Wild Beast. Together, the Opera Dada Project and the Futurist Dinner Party will last 45 minutes.

Jacqueline Bobak, Micaela Tobin, Abigail Whitman, Annie Dai Han, Anqi Li, Chacha Tahng , Elliot Menard, Emily Tschirhart, Erin Mihalka, Hae Jun Kim , Jolee Gordon, Julianne Reames, Maddison Schneider, Menghe Jing, Mikaela Elson, Natalee Hapaniewski, Pilialoha Pai, Rogelio Resendiz, Rosa Evangelina, Sage Henriksen, Yanbinbing Zhou