Hip Hop Artist. Performer. Playwright.
The Bag
Written by Hip Hop ensemble Felonious
Commissioned by the Originate+Generate new play development program at Aurora Theatre Company
In the wake of Hip Hop's 50th anniversary, a lucrative offer brings four once-famous independent emcees back together. Now in their 50s, with families and financial responsibilities, these artists—who disbanded in the early 2000s—are asked to reunite for a private show at the 40th birthday party of a wealthy tech entrepreneur who admired their past work. Despite their initial reluctance, they agree to perform, but only for the money. This show weaves together the live spectacle of their music set with a deeper exploration of their personal histories, the sacrifices they've made for their craft, and the search for meaning in a world driven by transactions.
Sound in the Silence is a multicultural remembrance project dedicated to empowering young people to forge connections across borders through the transformative power of art. Through location-based workshops, we foster personal connections to the past and to one another, cultivating a culture of remembrance that honors the significant places where we work.
Sound in the Silence
Listen up.
Believe it or not, it's been 25 years since the Felonious crew gathered around a cassette 4-track in a garage in the outer Richmond in San Francisco and recorded a demo tape.
Listen to the new single ‘Fiend’ featuring production by Gennessee, Keith Pinto, Daniel ‘D3’ Cohen, the Legendary Don Lo, and Felonious.
“Currency” smashes open The Merchant of Venice and places Shylock at the center of our world, not as a caricature but instead as a reflection of the immigrant, working class, citizens of our port cities. From the marketplaces of West Oakland, Hong Kong, Managua, Downtown LA, and Venice, Currency explores the transactional relationships with those who come to buy our goods, our bodies, and our cultures.
Currency
A Hip Hop Theater Piece with Live Music
After Dan shows Tommy a passport and a 42-page letter written by his grandfather, they follow the melody of a traditional song to Hamburg, Germany. Stateless combines live hip-hop music, and live beatboxing with German, Jewish, and African American history to explore the spaces “in between”.
Stateless
The American with the hoop
How the great-grandson of Hanseatic music greats follows in the footsteps of his family
When Dan Wolf first came to Hamburg in 2000, he was nervous. His fear dominated, he says today. The then 25-year-old could not estimate how it would feel to visit the city where his great-grandfather Leopold Wolf and his brothers wrote history more than 100 years ago. A story that was still alive in the year 2000 and yet a dormant one ...
New Press
Echoes (Four Women) pays homage to the spirit of four holocaust survivors - Emmie Arbel, Selma van de Perre, Judit Varga, and Batsheva Dagan - who were all imprisoned at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
The song features vocals from GRAMMY winner Tommy Soulati Shepherd of the Alphabet Rockers with music by composer Ken Primo aka Keith Pinto.
New Release
Sound in the Silence is a remembrance project that creates live performances on-location at memorial sites connected to the Holocaust. Using a multi-disciplinary methodology (education, experience, expression), we conduct art and education workshops that act as a prompt for the creation of new performance work. Each “edition” of Sound in the Silence culminates in an interdisciplinary, site-specific performance that incorporates the creative responses of the individuals to the shared experience.
Patreon Launch
About Me
Dan Wolf is a hip-hop artist who works with rap, theater, personal narrative, and history to give voice to the problematic world we live in. His multi-sensory work draws its power from years of experience working, teaching, and performing across the globe.