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Zummel
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Zummel 6:19 Ontario 1999
Directors: Mark Adam, Allen Kaeja
Choreographer: Allen Kaeja
Dancers: Sylvie Bouchard, Philip Drube, Karen Kaeja, Allen Kaeja, Teena Walker (Kaeja d'Dance)
Composer: Edgardo Moreno
Producers: Allen Kaeja, Mark Adam, Trisha McKell
Funder: Bravo!FACT
A memoir to the lost family of Allen Kaeja's father, whose entire family perished during the Holocaust of WWII. Zummel has won awards at the 2000 IMZ dance screen in Monaco, the Intercom International Film Festival in Chicago, and Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video in Toronto. From the stage version commissioned by NorrDans (Sweden).
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