Music. Theater. Arts Education.
SOUND IN THE SILENCE
SOUND IN THE SILENCE is a global, multicultural project that empowers young people to understand history and their place in it while connecting across borders, generations, and time through the transformative power of art. Each “edition” of the project culminates in an interdisciplinary, intercultural, collaborative, non-traditional, site-specific public performance that incorporates the creative responses of the individuals to the shared experience. By blending experiential education with artistic expression, SOUND IN THE SILENCE battles anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia by fostering empathy, understanding, curiosity, and creativity through the exploration and expression of complex historical narratives. Through location-based workshops and public performances, we cultivate a culture of remembrance and resistance, inspiring participants to reflect on the past and build a more just and connected future.
THE BAG
Written by Hip Hop music and theater ensemble Felonious
The Story: In the wake of Hip Hop's 50th anniversary, four once-famous independent emcees receive a lucrative $200,000 offer to reunite for a private performance at a wealthy tech entrepreneur's 40th birthday party. Having disbanded in the early 2000s and not seen each other for 10-15 years, these artists now juggle families, financial pressures, and strained relationships. Despite their initial reluctance, they agree to perform—not for love of the art, but for the money..
Commissioned by the Originate+Generate new play development program at Aurora Theatre Company .
Supported by the generosity of Kenneth Rainin Foundation's New & Experimental Works Program and the Gerbode Foundation's Theater Production Awards.
LISTEN UP.
Believe it or not, it's been 25 years since the Felonious crew gathered around a cassette 4-track in a garage in the outer Richmond in San Francisco and recorded a demo tape.
Listen to the new single ‘Fiend’ featuring production by Gennessee, Keith Pinto, Daniel ‘D3’ Cohen, the Legendary Don Lo, and Felonious.
Dan Wolf, already a creative and provocative playwright, director, and actor, is writing a book. It might just provide a roadmap to the future of truly impactful remembrance work.
Wolf is a member of Widen the Circle's 2025 Berlin Fellowship, an in-depth yearlong learning program. Along with the late director Jens Huckeriede, he developed Sound in the Silence, a unique and powerful performance-based remembrance project that operates on multiple levels. The basic concept brings together people, typically high school students, interested in arts such as theater, music, dance, rap, and writing.
The group visits a memorial site where trauma and oppression have occurred. Participants spend three intensive days learning about the site’s history. Then, with the help of group leaders, they develop individual artistic expressions based on what they learned. Finally, the group comes together and spends three more days melding those artistic expressions into a final performance, often delivered at the memorial site.
NEW PRESS
Sound in the Silence is a remembrance project that creates live performances on-location at memorial sites connected to the Holocaust. Using a multi-disciplinary methodology (education, experience, expression), we conduct art and education workshops that act as a prompt for the creation of new performance work. Each “edition” of Sound in the Silence culminates in an interdisciplinary, site-specific performance that incorporates the creative responses of the individuals to the shared experience.
PATREON
About Me
Dan Wolf is a hip-hop artist who works with rap, theater, personal narrative, and history to give voice to the problematic world we live in. His multi-sensory work draws its power from years of experience working, teaching, and performing across the globe.