Creative Assignment 2: Inspired by German Kabarett

For this round of assignments I was particularly interested in highlighting the anarchic political character of German Kabarett in the late 19^th-early 20^th century. I combined texts about the Kabarett with actual performance texts and descriptions in order to facilitate the drawing of connections between the politics and the aesthetics of German Kabarett. In addition, for the written assignment I asked you to connect it to your previously defined area of interest of your chosen geographic region, as teased out in your assignment one. 

In continuation of this line of thinking, please relook at your assignment 1 with the objective to trying to highlight the particular POLITICS inherent in your emerging approach.

Choose one part/or aspect from your creative assignment 1, which captures this politic. Take this aspect/part of your assignment 1(could be from its content, its music, a line from the lyrics of the music you used, a gesture, a movement, a movement theme, the costume, a particular juxtaposition of aesthetics, anything really etc.) and interface it with an aspect of the artistic/creative texts from the German Kabarett readings, such as, e.g. the self-reflexivity inherent in the “Course in Stage Directing” or the self-description of the quality of Valeska Gert’s work, or imagery from “The Ox of the Roof,” or draw inspiration from the poems by Anita Berber, from “The Lavender Lay,” or Mrs. X, or the storyline of “The Loyal Citizen of Baghdad” alternatively from the photographs interspersed between the text, or anything that struck you as particularly interesting/inspiring.