My Notes - 3rd November 2011

• Jazz 1920's.
• Josephine Baker.
• Cabarets - music, comedians, dancers.
• Dada - overtly political, anti-capitalistic and anti-bourgois: Hans Richter, George Grosz, Raoul Houssmann.
• Magnet for hedonists.
• Party years 1924-1929.
• Pleasure seekers to the city: dress-up, drink, dance, express themselves in theatre, film, architecture, art or literature.
• Art: Otto Dix, George Grosz.
• Literature: Christoher Isherwood.
• Berlin's creative types - 1920's revival.
• Historiale history festival.
• Anita Berber, lady of the night and Sebastian Droste were rebels of their time, actress and dance performer - theatre of the nameless inspiration.
• 1920's were key for the theatre and film industries.
• Avant garde choreographer: Rita Sacchetto.
• Fritz Lang film - Mabuse.

• Making a scene had become the norm'
• Arnold Langer - accentuate.
• Make up for professionals - Kryolan.
• In the 1970's Kyrolan increased with new subcultures, attitude: punk, new romantics, goth, new punk, new folk, fetish.
• Dramatic look.
• Emotional attachement to make up.
• Human fundamentalism.
• Super strain of make up.
• More colour, pigment, range, quality.
• Theatre, TV, film, alternative scenes.
• Illamasqua is human fundamentalism.