Performing Arts Projects
The performing arts are a unique opportunity to bring creators and audiences together at the same time and place in a shared experience for a unique moment never to be repeated in exactly the same way again. Just as we never step in the same river twice, we never experience the same live performance twice, as either the giver or the receiver. JCI's performing artists serve as dynamic mirrors for contemporary Jewish experience and breathe new life into ancient identities through motion, sound, and stagecraft. Explore current JCI projects that honor Jewish cultural roots, tell important historical stories, and explore new artistic frontiers.
25044: A Holocaust Musical of Survival and Hope by Russell Kaback
A musical storytelling performance based on the life of Russell Kaback's grandfather, Szyjek Magier, a Jewish Polish teenager who survived four years in Nazi forced labor and concentration camps during WWII. Rooted in Jewish values—tradition, mitzvot, storytelling, resilience, family, and tikkun olam—the work uses music and narrative to share a deeply personal Holocaust history with contemporary audiences.
Boulder Klezjammers
Musicians from throughout the front range of Colorado learning, playing, and enjoying klezmer music and Yiddish song in community. Monthly meetings, occasional workshops with leading musicians (e.g., Frank London, Zoë Aqua), and openings at Festo! Festo! concerts, sponsored by the Denver JCC. Open to musicians and singers of all levels.
Missing Voices
Promotes the lives and works of Jewish composers of classical music murdered in the Holocaust by recording CDs, organising concerts, and curating events and exhibitions all over the world. Dedicated to making the music of these forgotten composers available widely to audiences and listeners, and to touch upon an aspect of Holocaust education that has been neglected for many decades.
Rabbinic Arts Company
Draws on Judaism's rich history of text and ritual to develop a modern-day practice of rabbinic arts, centering female-identified and non-binary voices. Trains artists in, and supports the production of, contemporary works of Jewish performance art that organically intertwine contemporary, cutting-edge performance practice with in-depth rabbinic interpretative tradition.
The Last Rat of Theresienstadt
A dark comedy, multi-media play about Sofia Brünn of 1920 Berlin's cabaret scene. In a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia with Pavel—a wise and wily rat—their unlikely friendship becomes a lifeline, sparking rebellion, hope and courage. Features tabletop puppetry, shadow puppetry, overhead projections of art work created by prisoners in the camp, and music with songs written by prison inmates (with new scores, as all original scores were lost).
TOVA: The Other Voice Alive
Sagi Gross and Inbal Siegler - All My Colours for You - , Arti & Amicitiae, June 4th, 2025
Award winning theater director, choreographer, and filmmaker Sagí Amir Gros, born to a family of Romanian Ashkenazi and Yemeni Jewish heritage, and working between New York, Berlin and Amsterdam, Gros created TOVA to foster meaningful dialogue through Jewish, Arab, and broader international audiences. His interdisciplinary work has been presented internationally, including at the Louvre Museum in Paris, and explores memory, migration, identity, and belonging through his artistic philosophy, Physical Script: The Body as an Archive. [Read more]
Under Friedl's Wing
A performance presented by Jennifer Levine Art in the U.S. during 2026 and at Terezin, in 2027. It is a remembrance, an honoring of the life of Friedl Dicker Brandeis, who taught children art while at Theresienstadt. It is a call to action for this generation to see art making as justice making. The event in Terezin will be filmed with a small audience of local citizens. The backdrop that will be used in Terezin is handcrafted by U.S. audiences.
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