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She was commissioned by Arena to write “Legacy” as her first mainstage ... theories held by Isaac Newton and the philosopher Voltaire. (She said the energy of a moving object is proportional ...
Cabaret Voltaire are set to mark 50 years since their first live shows with a special performance at Sheffield’s Forge ...
The claim: Voltaire said, 'If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize' Voltaire is one of the many historical figures that is often misattributed.
The great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—born in Leipzig in 1646—died nearly 40 years before the Lisbon earthquake, but the event would shape his legacy. Voltaire mordantly responded to ...
Dada was born 100 years ago in the “total pandemonium” of Zurich’s wild Cabaret Voltaire – and art and culture have never been the same since, writes Alastair Sooke. In 1916, a young ...
A unique set of correspondence between the Russian Empress Catherine the Great and the French philosopher Voltaire has been ... of Russia's fabulous cultural legacy to the Rodina or Motherland.
To share a stage once more with Mal and to honour Cabaret Voltaire’s legacy will be a unique privilege, whilst remembering that in the current times – as back then – the Dadaist interventions of ...
Meanwhile—300 years earlier, in France—a mathematician, scientist, and lover to Voltaire finds out she’s about to become one. From the writer of Native Gardens and Destiny of Desire a bright ...