![]() Not only did each mask seem to demand the appropriate costume it also called for a quite specific set of gestures, melodramatic and even close to madness. We were all there when Janco arrived with the masks, and each of us put one on. ‘They are designed to make their effect at a distance and in the relatively small space of the cabaret the result is astonishing. ![]() Ball wrote in his diary on this date, ‘They are reminiscent of the Japanese or Ancient theatre, yet they are wholly modern’: As the founder of the Cabaret Voltaire night-club where he and his fellow Dadaists regularly worked their audience into a fury, Hugo Ball was no stranger to the power to shock, but even he was unprepared for the horrific, abstract masks created by Marcel Janco for the performers to wear in the show.
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