Maia Brown leads a Yiddish dance night at Black & Tan Hall alongside live klezmer music from The Rhapsody Project Klezmer Jam ...

Most academic symposia don’t offer a steady supply of cold beer and hot pirogi. Fewer still offer the chance to see Michael Alpert, frontman for the progressive klezmer band Brave Old World, dancing ...

Whenever Warsaw-born dancer, choreographer Felix Fibich — who died on March 20, at 96 — and I would meet, we’d discuss Jewish choreography and sometimes end up dancing together. At the June 24, 2002 ...

Nothing’s like a Yiddish dance party. Dozens of dancers take the floor in a series of moves both celebratory and easy to learn, all while a klezmer band pounds out notes on accordion, violin and other ...

Temple Beth El will present a Yiddish dance weekend featuring Bruce Bierman, celebrated dance instructor and teacher at the Stagebridge Theater Company in Oakland, Sept. 9 and 10. At 6 p.m. Sept. 9, ...

Come learn the dance steps that go with klezmer music! Yiddish dance is a social folk dance danced in circles, squares, and lines. In this workshop, Emily will teach us to dance freylekhs, zhoks, ...

I hold the frail, ringed fingers of the gray-haired woman to the left to me; my other hand sweats in the warm grasp of the person to my right. We smile at each other sheepishly, waiting for the ...

In this instrumental workshop, Martin will teach klezmer tunes that are played for Yiddish folk dancing. Emphasis will be placed on playing in a way that supports and responds to dancers' tempo for an ...

For 11 teenagers, a recent Sunday brought a unique look at a language deeply rooted in their Jewish culture. The group listened intently as Jean Arin introduced them to Yiddish, the colorful language ...

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