The Performance with Shira Piven and Jade Jenise Dixon (Ep. 526)

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  Jeremy was not a tap dancer, he was a drummer.

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  So he started to learn how to tap dance when he started optioning the script about 15 years ago.

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  So bit by bit he learned this strange art form.

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  And yes, we had doubles and they were so important to the process, but at the same time, what he was doing, you couldn't fake.

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  Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

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  In this episode, a gifted Jewish tap dancer is recruited to perform in 1930s Berlin in director Shira Piven's drama the Performance.

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  The film tells the story of Harald, an accomplished tap dancer touring Europe with his troupe in the late 1930s.

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  When they are scouted by a Nazi attache for an exclusive performance, he realizes they don't know about his Jewish identity and is faced with the dangerous dilemma of performing in secret or staying true to himself.

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  In addition to the performance, Piven's other directorial credits include the feature films welcome to Me and Fully Loaded and episodes of the series Room 104 Claws, Transparent and One Mississippi.

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  Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Piven spoke with director Jade Janice Dixon about filming the performance.

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  Listen on for their spoiler filled conversation.

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  Well, hello everyone.

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  Thank you guys for coming out.

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  Wasn't that an awesome film?

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  So I'd like to first congratulate you on a wonderful film and female director.

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  And I just, I'm so happy I'm the one to moderate this because I just like.

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  Thank you.

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  Thanks for doing it, Jade.

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  Of course, of course.

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  So I saw on the screen that this was based on a short story that was in the New Yorker by Arthur Miller.

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