Dada beginning and meaning

Dada started in the mid 19 teens during the 2nd world war. It began in zurich, Switzerland with Hugo ball and Emmy henning. There were a duo of performers Ball played piano and Henning was a singer and dancer. In the unitentional movement there weren't just Hugo and Emmy who were expressing there beliefs through dada. Artists such as, Alfred jarry and Erik Satie. 

The roots of dada lay in the pre-war avant-grande. The use combination of cubism, collage, Wassily Kandinsky's theoretical writings and abstractions, detach the movement from the constraints of reality and convention which is what they believed created the war in the first place. The influence Of French poets and the writings of German expressionists liberated dada from the tight correlation between words and meaning. Avant-grande circles outside of France knew of pre-war Parisian development. 

Dada aimed to be a anti-art movement almost because the art and mindset that created what was modern art at the time also created the war to what they believe. To give a contextual parallel punk music took the same characteristics as dada and came about the same way. They both began very aggressively wanting to change the norm and then later on became the norm thus becoming pointless because if you are the norm what are you fighting against, you've already won.