to a land that promises new beginnings. The night opens with
a piece that comes from a larger
work called “My Father’s Solo.”
“It is a dedication to the survivor,” Dorfman explained. “It’s a
piece that I made in response to
my family’s story and my father
who, like others, have the capacity
to fall and rise again. They have
tenacity, a sense of pride, a sense
of resilience to whatever comes
their way. It’s the prologue of the
piece, a narrated performance in
the sense that there’s a multimedia performance. I show slides
and talk about the evolution of
this work.
“The next piece of the program
is called ‘Cat’s Cradle’ — it’s a work
that is set to music and poetry that
was written in Theresienstadt,”
continued Dorfman. “It was really a holding ground primarily for
Jews on their way to Auschwitz.
It was a very unique place in the
sense that there was opera, theatre, even dance created at Thereseinstadt. There were people who
rose above their circumstance to
create, to have hope, and to believe that they may be freed. Most
Watch a Video of Cat’s Cradle - Talking Suitcase & Cabaraet
New Jersey Stage
October 2014
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