“With those songs as the foundation, Dorfman, whose parents were survivors of the Holocaust, made plain Kahan’s undercurrent of sadness with unflinching tableaux — a woman caught in a snare, bodies collapsing after chores and cheery vaudevillian skits that ended by dropping dead.”
—Daily Gazette
The Legacy Project is a concert of Dorfman’s repertory that honors her Jewish roots. From the journey and arrival of Jews in America from Brazil in 1654 (Odisea) to life in Eastern Europe (The Klezmer Sketch), the Holocaust (Cries of the Children, Cat’s Cradle and Silent Echoes) and American assimilation and the immigrant story (The American Dream), Dorfman establishes herself as the consummate storyteller. Echad, with an eight-foot aluminum wheel at its core, explores the delicate balance between the individual and the community that is the essence of our humanity. Her newest work, Tikkun (the Hebrew word “to repair), speaks to the past and present and the potential movement of the human race toward a new future.