Haggadah will examine the ritual of the Seder in a post-modern artistic context. The traditional Seder is a ritual theatricalization of the Exodus from Egypt on an intimate scale.

Jumping off from that point Haggadah envisions a complete spectacle combining dance, theater, music and design to immerse the audience in an intense re-envisioning of both the story and the act of coming together to tell it.

With his company, Witness Relocation, this project will link post-modern dance, narrative storytelling, rock concerts, lectures, and dramatic scenes into a vibrant artistic rendering of one of the world’s most ancient holidays.

The result will be immediate, accessible, un-ignorable and relevant to a contemporary audience. Haggadah explodes the narrative of the Passover story into dynamic physical form, creating a total experience. Though the word Seder literally means "order" in Hebrew, Dan’s retelling of the Haggadah will rely more on chaos with the potential for order to arise from it.

Born and raised in the wild suburbs of New Jersey, Dan Safer’s work now spans the globe. He has choreographed and taught in such disparate places as the Bangkok Fringe Festival and the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque). Over the last decade Dan has choreographed and directed dozens of performances, mostly in New York venues and in Thailand, where he also worked on Thai beauty pageants and soap operas.

His company, Witness Relocation, formed with a core group of collaborators in 2000, and has performed at The Ohio Theater/Soho Think Tank, The Dancespace Project/St. Mark’s Church, Dixon Place, Galapagos, New York University, and the Patravada Theater (Thailand).

Their most recent production, Dancing vs. the Rat Experiment, was performed at the La MaMa Annex and received glowing acclaim. The New Yorker described Dan’s choreography as "bursting with ideas both visual and aural," and complimented his work’s "originality, youth, joy, vulgarity, and ironic distance from the media saturated world that inspired the show."