Esibizioni artistiche e modelli teatrali dadaisti e futuristi. Esperienze performative a confronto

This paper proposes a comparative analysis between forms of experimental performance and various moments of artistic expression «performed» by leading representatives of two avant-garde movements, ranging from the organization of "soirées" and other blatantly nonconformist events to formulas whereby Dadaists and Futurists theorized and practised the art of theatre from 1909 to 1925. Commenting on the similarities and dissimilarities between these aesthetics will be accompanied by several historical and literary arguments, designed to explain not only the in-depth, artistic motivations, but also the sometimes civic, political underpinnings of these manifestations, which were antiinterventionist, from the perspective of the members of the Dada Movement, but which ideologically upholded the commencement of the first global conflagration, from the standpoint of the Marinettian group.