| Gotham Arts Exchange in association with
NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
PRESENT
Two Artists….
Two continents…
One Legacy
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
and Bente Kahan in
The Legacy Project: ECHOES
An evening of dance, theater, and live music
May 29 & 30, 2009 8:00 pm
NYU/Tisch School of the Arts
Fifth Floor Theater
111 Second Avenue, NYC
Carolyn Dorfman and company join forces with Norwegian, Jewish actress/vocalist, Bente Kahan (http://www.bentekahan.eu/) in an evening of dance, music and theater that embraces the best of Dorfman and Kahan’s individual repertoires and cabaret-style intimacy and features their newest collaboration. SILENT ECHOES, is an integration of Dorfman’s tour de force, Cat’s Cradle, Kahan’s powerful one woman theater piece, Voices of Theresienstadt, new chorography, live music and text. They blur the lines between art forms as they continue their individual and collective explorations of their common heritage and vision.
Performing with CDDC, Kahan becomes the “weaver of tales” alternating between her own songbook of Ladino, Yiddish, English, German music and work from Dorfman’s own Jewish Legacy Project, where with depth, humor and reverence, she draws on history, philosophy, traditions, gestures, music and liturgy to create work that is honestly personal yet powerfully universal.
Consummate storytellers, they dip into the historical “caldron” of faith, survival and renewal to reveal a celebrated body of work that honors their Eastern European Jewish heritage and reveals their inner worlds as children of survivors of the Holocaust.
“With those songs as the foundation, Dorfman, whose parents were survivors of the Holocaust, made plain Kahan’s undercurrent of sadness with unflinching tableaux — a woman caught in a snare, bodies collapsing after chores and cheery vaudevillian skits that ended by dropping dead. “ ---DAILY GAZETTE
“Dorfman, Kahan Collaboration Bears Emotionally Charged Fruit” Together, they are creating works that are charged — emotionally and intellectually. Kahan’s rich, tender renderings mingled fear with hope, despair with a communal caring.” ---DAILY GAZETTE
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