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We are All One: The Jews of Sefwi Wiawso

Several Jewish men from Sefwi Wiawso, Ghana recount stories of The House of Israel community and its return to ancestral Judaic beliefs and practices.

DNAWORKS was funded by the U.S. Embassy in Ghana to lead an oral history project with the Jewish community, some 200 strong, in Sefwi Wiawso in the Western Region of Ghana about 120 miles from Accra.  Adam and Daniel spent Purim with the community, their first celebration of this holiday, led a Purim spiel, and taught songs. They also spent Passover with the community and three Shabbatot. Adam is currently editing a film about this community; their experiences there will serve as a jumping-off point for DNAWORKS’ on-going dialogue and creative work about Jews of color and of African heritage.

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Agulhas Theatre Works

Adam co-choreographed “Pretending to be Something, Now Coming from Nothing” with Agulhas Theatre Works of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Christian Children's Storehouse

Adam and Daniel taught at the Children’s Christian Storehouse Conservatory, an after-school and weekend arts and education program that serves youth from a wide range of backgrounds – from homeless and village youth to diplomats’ children. With the NYU and University of Ghana students, DNAWORKS choreographed and created an end-of-term production, Kofi’s Story: From Accra-way to Broadway, that sold out the Efua T. Sutherland Drama Studio, a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre at the University of Ghana, Legon.

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Atlantis

Adam and Daniel led a self-expression and empowerment workshop through dance and art making at the Community Center in Atlantis, a Coloured township outside Cape Town. Participants aged from 9 months to 94 years collaborated in the project. We devised dance work and later paraded through the streets in an visual art-clad car which traveled from the Community Center into the streets. A dance block party concluded the day.

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