RE: Jewish dancing

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Well, I say we do a campaign to bring back the old dances.  Michael Alpert 
did a few lesson session in New York in the past.   We really got to do 
more of them.

Just read Ernie's post and sent it to Michael and a videomaker to suggest 
making a new video.


Reyzl


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From:  Helen Winkler[SMTP:winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com]
Sent:  Friday, July 09, 1999 12:27 AM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Jewish dancing

Since I first posted to this discussion group re:  resources about Jewish
klezmer style dancing, I have learned about a world of Jewish dance that I
didn't know anything about (despite being involved with Israeli and
international folk dance for over 20 years).  I have been to many Jewish
weddings/bar, bat mitzvah parties, where the hora comes on and everyone
tries to dance but ends up tripping over each other, not knowing exactly
what they're supposed to do.  Israeli dancing is not easy to pick up on the 
fly;you need to go to classes and practise every week and even then the
dances change every week!  The traditional community dances like the
freilach, got lost and it's wonderful to see that they are being found
again.
But we don't need to feel like we're alone in losing our dance traditions. 
A couple of years ago I was invited to an Italian wedding.  I practised my
Tarantella faithfully, looking forward to doing it with Italian people for
the first time.  Well, the music came on, and I got up to dance with my
husband.  We were the only ones who knew the tarantella!  I heard one of 
the
young men in the crowd say:
"so, that's what you're supposed to do to that music."

TTFN
Helen


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