Ballet Quad Cities: Violins of Hope Mini Performance

Honoring Memory Through Movement

You’re invited to a special program by Ballet Quad Cities in conjunction with the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and the Violins for Hope.

We are honored to host this Ballet Quad Cities presentation of an original program of dance pieces (set to music by composers who died in the camps) that embody the stories, emotions, history and hope surrounding the Holocaust. They will be performing: Infinity, music by Gideon Klein, its theme “when we choose to reflect and remember our past, including the pain and sorrow, only then will we see meaningful change.” Kaddish, set to Sandor Kuti’s Sonata for Solo Violin, is a duet based on prints by Mauricio Lasansky (who established the program in printmaking at the University of Iowa; Sotheby’s identifies him as one of the fathers of modern printmaking), which captures the grief, hope and peace embedded in the experiences of the victims and survivors. Quack, Quack, Quack, music by Rudolf Karel, is based upon a short story Anne Frank wrote as a response to a punishment she received from her teacher for talking too much. Radio Overture, set to Pavel Haas’s Overture for Radio, op.46, celebrates the invention of the radio. Sadly, however, radio became part of the machinery of Nazi propaganda. . . .

Original choreography by Courtney Lyon and Emily Kate Long

Saturday, March 28
3 pm  |  Putnam Grand Lobby
Free with General Admission