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Futurism Theatre

Beginnings

First Futurist manifesto in Le Figaro(newspaper).

Written by Italian poet, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 20February 1909.

Caused an upheaval , as the Paristian public sees it as ‘incendaryviolence’.

Video of Marinetti- [FUTURIST MANIFESTO PREACHING]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY8kVa0qB9Q

Warning: information overload next.

Next page: Futurist Manifesto “rules andregulations”

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Futurist ideologywritten by Marinetti.. 

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Luigi Russolo (Italian,1885-1947), 

Giacomo BallaShape Noise

Umberto Boccioni,Unique Forms of Continuity i  

oseph Stella (American,1877-1946),

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First attempt of Futurism TheatreUbu Roi, an absurd production

Written and presented by Alfred Jarry, a poet and cyclist fanatic.

-Ubu Roi first staging is in 1876 at Lugne-Poe’s Theatre del’Oeuvre.

Poster of Ubu Roi drawn by Alfred Jarry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvnvwAYhZVM[From notes.] video of Ubu Roi

Picture of Ubu Roi staged by EmptySpaces .Theatre Company at the Orlando

Shakespeare Festival in September 2006.

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Ubu Roi and other futurist

Ubu Roi’s production review 2006. Critical comment on it’sinfluence of Futurism in art today.

2 months after Ubu Roi’sfirst premier, Marinetti’s predecessor-

in-provocation, Jarry, Roi Bombance is presented in the sametheatre.

Roi Bombance was a satire of revolution and democracysimilarly to Ubu Roi.

‘Poupees electriques’ a very influential play for youngFuturists at that time.

[Political situation in Italy; Marinetti’s strategy of making Futurism

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Futurist performances

ConsequencesPainters attacked by the public.

ActionsSpectator must be live at thecentre of the painted action.

Purpose: the surest means of disrupting a complacent public.

Subsequent manifestosinstructed painters to ‘go outinto the street, launch assaultsfrom theatres and into theartistic battle.

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Pictures of Painters

Sorry..I only have it myprinted notes.

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GeorgeGeorge2020ththcentury multicentury multi

•American avant garde composer, pianist,author and inventor•Born July 8 1900, Trenton, New Jersey•Died February 12 1959 New York City•He is a very passionate about music at anearly age.•Eccentric piano technique.•Among 300 over compositions, the mostnotable work: Ballet Mecanique.•Good friends: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali,Ernest Hemingway, Eric Satie, and IgorStravinsky(his idol)•

Antheil wrote over 300 musical works in allmajor genres, including symphonies, chamberworks, film music, and operas. He wasextremely outspoken and articulate, andwrote numerous articles, as well as anautobiography, Bad Boy of Music, which is

still in rint.

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BalletBalletBeginning•It was originally written to accompany a Dadaist film of the samename.

•It was directed by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger,withcinematography by Man Ray.

•Antheil was not a Dadaist, though he had many friends andsupporters in that community.

• The score ended up being between 20 and 30 minutes long whilethe film was only 16 minutes long.

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 The film premiered on 24 September 1924 in Vienna presentedby Frederick Kiesler, later a world-famous architect.

•Antheil's music for Ballet Mécanique became a concert piece,premiered by Antheil himself in Paris in 1926.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0H8ztju78 

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Ballet mecanique (1929)film summary:

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack.A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. Therest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, kitchenobjects in concentric circles or rows - pots, pan lids, and funnels,

cars passing overhead, a spinning carnival ride. Over and over, aheavy-set woman climbs stairs carrying a large bag on hershoulder. An Art Deco cartoon figure appears, dancing. This is aworld in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images,

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The Music: BalletThe Music: BalletDue to the lack of technology, Antheil wrote several versions of thepiece. The very first, written in 1924 calls for…

In response to the technical difficulties, Antheil quickly re-arrangedthe piano parts, changing the orchestration to include unspecifiedmultiple of 2 conventional pianos and a single player piano.

Antheil again revised the piece, using a very different ensemble of 4 pianos, 4 xylophones, 7 electric bells, 2 propellors, timpani,glockenspiel, and assorted percussion. This version, which is muchtighter and shorter than the early versions, is performed fairly oftenand has been recorded several times.

Listen to Ballet MecaniqueVersion 3: 4 pianos, 2 electric bells, 2 airplane

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FuturismFuturismNew Wave: Merging various Art mediums and movements into an

innovative project.

Poupee Electriques :1909-2009 A Hundred yearsA multi media group who named themselves after the production.

Myspace page:

www.poupeeselectriques.com/myspace/poupelecs.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwm2PDTxtUg

Influences•futurism•dadaism•

surrealism•anarchism•cyberpunk •Vegan•machines

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Sources 

Websiteshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurist_Manifestohttp://www.unc.edu/~jimlee/AaronYontzFuturism.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Antheilhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_(art)#Futurism_in_musichttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet_mécaniquehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_(music)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_Futurist_Musicianshttp://www.unknown.nu/futurism/manifesto.htmlhttp://www.mishabittleston.com/artists/giacomo_balla/http://www.antheil.org/george.htmlhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014694/plotsummaryhttp://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol0302/stevedixon.htmlhttp://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/f/futurism.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist#Italian_Fascism

BooksArt and the future: A history/prophecy of the collaboration between science, technologyand art written by Douglas Davis Praegaer Publishers, New York, Washington, 1973.Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present written by RoseLee Goldberg, UnitedKingdom by Thames & Hudson Ltd. 1979, 1988, 2001