Rachel Linsky
Zachor: Honoring WWII Holocaust Survivors Through Dance
Image by Ryan Smith Visuals
About the Project:
As a 2019-2020 Artist in Residence at Chelsea Theatre Works, I am creating “Zachor: Honoring WWII Holocaust Survivors through Dance”. This evening length work combines literature and contemporary dance as a means to preserve accounts of WWII Holocaust survivors. 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. In doing so, the project achieves 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 it can be seen today with the detention and persecution of immigrants in the U.S..
The cumulative performance will take place in Chelsea Theatre Works Black Box Theatre. While the dates of the premiere (August 21& 22, 2020) are subject to change due to COVID-19, the project is still confirmed to happen once public gatherings are again safe for communities.
This project is funded in part by both 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.
The cumulative performance will take place in Chelsea Theatre Works Black Box Theatre. While the dates of the premiere (August 21& 22, 2020) are subject to change due to COVID-19, the project is still confirmed to happen once public gatherings are again safe for communities.
This project is funded in part by both 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.
