Dances for the Blue House and Workshops with Dan Bar On

The New York-based Friends of the Blue House supported two Jewish choreographers, Aviva Geismar and Jonathan Hollander, in bringing the “Dances for the Blue House” to Freiburg and Breisach.

During lectures and workshops with Prof. Dan Bar-On from Be’er Sheva University in Israel, Jewish guests from the older generation entered into conversation with members of the Friends group. The book “Dances for the Blue House,” a documentation of the entire project, was published by the modo Verlag publishing company. Bodo Kaiser produced two films on the 100 students from Freiburg who took part in workshops and developed choreographies of their own.

Fred Mayer visited Freiburg and Breisach, accompanied by Gerald Schwab. Together they spoke with Prof. Dr. Wolfram Wette about their childhood years in Freiburg, the successful escape of their families, their return to Europe as U.S. soldiers and Fred Mayer’s resistance action in Innsbruck. Their story would later be told in the feature film, “The Real Inglorious Bastards” (2012).

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