About This Show
Salt Chocolate premiered in NYC at The Duke on 42nd Street in April 2004. Inspired by the system established to promote forgiveness and healing among apartheid’s victims and perpetrators, the work addresses what it means to speak our painful truths while questioning how we forgive on a personal and political level. The text is culled from actual testimonies at the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, and from the short story “Do you remember Helena Lem,” written by Afrikaans poetess Ina Rousseau. These sources create a visceral and poetic narrative, which is coupled with a dynamic music and sound score featuring traditional and contemporary South African songs and African-American spirituals.
The cast includes internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer Pat Hall, Erika Ewing, Rodney Gilbert, Pat Hall, Vernice Miller, Darrill Rosen, Gina Shmukler, and Baraka de Soleil.