Some Israeli folk dances are based on musical traditions from all over the world that are centuries old, but the dances also continue to evolve as today’s participants keep adding new music and new ...
YILAN, Taiwan (JTA) — It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a bridge ...
Most people don’t associate public libraries with dancing, but dancing is on the schedule on Thursday, Feb. 2 at 7:00 p.m. at Spring Lake District Library. Hope College dance instructor Linda Booker ...
RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – Like all other mass gatherings now, Israel’s Karmiel dance festival, one of the largest of its kind in the world, was postponed. The annual fest, which takes place at the end ...
What makes a dance Jewish? To answer this question, you have to identify the similarities between the ecstatic, joyful round dances of the Hasidim and the politically-inspired, modernist choreography ...
Yet, unlike traditional Ashkenazic music, which has enjoyed a renaissance over the past several decades, Ashkenazic dance has been largely neglected; the stuff you see performed at Jewish weddings ...
Sunday January 28th, 2-4pm at the Nevada County Jewish Community Center (NCJCC), an afternoon of Israeli circle dance. Join us to dance traditional and new Israeli dances. Gather in the spirit of ...
Some movies cut so close to home that they make it impossible to have an objective response. When I was watching Tatyana Tenenbaum’s debut feature documentary Everything You Have Is Yours, the moment ...
For a little music for the holiday season, we head to sunny Miami, Fla. That's the where the Empire Brass recently got together with the Master Chorale of South Florida. From that concert, we hear ...
On Thursday evening, Sept. 28, the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers are sponsoring a workshop at the Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, with Roberto Bagnoli, of Rome, Italy, teaching folk dances from ...
Oscar Julius Quartet; unidentified balalaika orchestra; various performers. Table of contents Medley of traditional songs and dances -- The butcher : from The witch / Goldfadden -- Russian sher -- ...