Roosje's story is brought to life in various ways through theater and dance. Because Roosje was a dance teacher, all theater productions contain dancing. On this page you can find some productions as well as authentic images of Roosje herself.
In 2016 and 2017, 10 dance theater performances with modern choreography were performed in Germany.
Stage performance for schools; The performance is about meeting two completely different persons, i.e. Etty Hillesum and Roosje Glaser in Westerbork.
Emancipated Roosje Glaser was a successful dance teacher in Amsterdam, London, Paris and Berlin during the Second World War. She owned several dance schools in Brabant, until her husband became a sympathizer of the Nazis and betrayed Roosje. She ends up in various concentration camps, where she tries to survive by teaching SS men to dance.
What's right? What is wrong? And what do you have to do to survive? That is what the performance of Dancing with the Enemy is about. Dancing with the Enemy is a musical theater production that includes songs written by Roosje Glaser, while in the camps and some 1930s hits, and new, never shown original film and photo images from the Polygoon news and private archives.