LOLA

LOLA is a dance experience choreographed by Georgia Ehrlich honoring her great-grandmother, Leonia “Lola” Singer (1920-2024). An intergenerational ode, the work explores how Lola's experience surviving the Holocaust became an indelible part of her great-granddaughter's inheritance, informing so much of how she moves through the world. Reconciling themes of loss, longing, chance, resilience, and freedom, LOLA is a kind of embodied remembrance—an expression of Georgia's relationship with the extraordinary woman whose survival made her own life possible.

LOLA is a multimedia work weaving together archival images and recordings of Lola with Georgia's choreography, exploring select chapters of Lola's Holocaust journey. Through this process, the work collapses time, allowing 21-year-old Georgia to meet her great-grandmother physically, spiritually, and intuitively as her contemporary. The show's musical tapestry traces Lola across the countries and cultures that shaped her journey, reflecting the extraordinary breadth of people and traditions she encountered.

Featuring performances by dancers Canaan Blansit, Christian de Jesus, Georgia Ehrlich, Chloe Hennesy, Sophia Luu, and Lana Zecchino; with music from Charlie Grey, Dhafer Youssef, Joseph Peach, Mieczyslaw Fogg, and Schimmer Trio; and original music by Jon Ehrlich, LOLA is a deeply collaborative work celebrating the power of ancestral excavation through oral storytelling.