Witness Relocation

Witness Relocation formed in 2000 and makes shows ranging from original dance/theater to fully scripted plays to many things in between. They’ve received three New York Innovative Theater Awards and perform at venues including Abrons, La MaMa (resident company), The Bushwick Starr, NYC Summer Stage, JACK, Dixon Place, Incubator, The Ohio Theater, American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, Fuse Box Festival in Austin, TX, Bumbershoot in Seattle, WA, and more. Internationally, the company has performed in France (including Theatre de Chaillot, Paris and Les Subsistances, Lyon), Poland, Russia, Romania, Canada, Egypt, Abu Dhabi, and Thailand. 

Witness Relocation make shows about the fact that, when it comes down to it, you just don't have to be an asshole.

Dan Safer

Dan Safer got kicked out of high school for a year, used to be a go-go dancer, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Party. He is Artistic Director of Witness Relocation and directs/ choreographs all of the shows. Outside of WR, collaborators include Tony Torn (the acclaimed UBU SINGS UBU and the upcoming Spider Rabbit); Ridge Theater (choreography for Persephone at BAM and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with the Philadelphia Orchestra/ conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin); Ishmael Huston-Jones (a duet, This Ring of Fire); and projects with Robert M. Johanson, Sxip Shirey, Ashley Tata, and other folx. Recent choreography includes Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival, Austria (starring Lars Eidinger, directed by Michael Sturminger); and Ashley Tata’s production of Dom Juan at Bard SummerScape. Recent work as a performer includes Mary Overlie’s Brain to Brain, and a virtual duet with Benoît Lachambre for Janessa Clark’s Bessie-nominated Communion. Dan teaches dance and theater at MIT.