About ZACHOR:
ZACHOR is an ongoing project that seeks to preserve the words and eternalize the stories of WWII Holocaust Survivors through dance. This project aims to educate diverse audiences on the millions persecuted and killed under the Nazi Regime due to their religion, ethnicity, sexuality, and political beliefs. We have a fundamental human responsibility to remember these events. Communities who fail to remember the atrocities of the past ultimately allow history to repeat itself; as can be seen today with the detention and persecution of immigrants in the U.S. This project has received funding by Combined Jewish Philanthropies and by New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation.
"Do I Want to Remember?" |
"Selection" |
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Modern Dance piece utilizing words of Alexander Kimel. This work premiered as part of Yom Hashoah programming at Elon University in North Carolina and was presented at the Huntington Avenue Theatre as part of Boston Contemporary Dance Festival in 2019.
Jewish Advocate Interview |
Dance film created at The New England Holocaust Memorial. Choreographed and directed by Rachel Linsky, filmed and edited by Olivia Blaidsell. This choreography was created using the words of Bernard Marks and memories and images of Agi Geva and Elie Wiesel. This film will be part of the "Empower One Another" virtual performance, September 26th, 2020.
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"ZACHOR: Honoring WWII Holocaust Survivors Through Dance"
As a 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at Chelsea Theatre Works, I am creating “ZACHOR: Honoring WWII Holocaust Survivors through Dance”. This evening length work combines literature and Modern Dance as a means to preserve accounts of WWII Holocaust survivors. The cumulative performance will take place in Chelsea Theatre Works Black Box Theatre in June of 2021.
“Dancing in this work at a memorial site was such a loaded, humbling experience that was not taken lightly. Rachel Linsky took such care developing this very personal and haunting work. The piece is rooted in family history, research, text and imagery from primary accounts of Holocaust Survivors, and a speech made by a survivor tying the breaking of his community to what is happening in the US with ICE and immigrant families. We all approached this as art that interacted with the memorial - calling attention to its intention of remembrance, and honoring stories through movement and embodiment”. - Erin McNulty, Dancer in ZACHOR
