The Dada movement was born in a Zurich cabaret

The Dada movement is a protest art movement born in Zurich during the Great War. Artists and conscientious objectors of various nationalities gathered there to flee the fighting and reject the cultural system that had provoked them. They founded the Cabaret Voltaire on February 2, 1916 under the direction of Hugo Ball, before Tristan Tzara became its leading figure.