A TCU professor has paid homage to her mother’s experience in the Holocaust through dance and film.  “Sh’ma: A Story of Survival,” is a dance film directed by Suki John, a professor in the School for Classical & Contemporary Dance.  Sh’ma is the centerpiece prayer in the Jewish faith, meaning “listen” or “hear.” The film and the choreodrama invite the audience to listen to the story and to be aware that genocide, atrocities and hate crimes are still happening, John said.  John has been working on Sh’ma for over 30 years. It began as a live choreodrama performed in the former Yugoslavia, now Serbia, and New York City. During COVID-19 she converted Sh’ma into a feature-length film.  John explained that her motivation to create “Sh’ma” was the death of her mother. “When my mother died in 2017, there were a lot of children at the border being separated from their parents,” John said. “And my mother was experiencing trauma, or PTSD, of the fear of being separated from her parents and the fear of having somebody knock on the door and say ‘we are taking you away now.’ ”