shining

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

I think if you visited villages throughout the world, you would find a lot 
of shining and improvisation going on in many cultures.  Once you take the 
dances out of the village and put them into the sterile environment of a 
dance class, the movements become standardized and disconnected from the 
culture.  In order to keep things interesting, the dances become more 
complex; this is fun for the dance enthusiast but ends up excluding everyone 
else.  This is why it is so important to bring the Yiddish dances back to 
the Jewish community; in the environment of the community, the emotion is 
allowed to return to the dances and everyone can shine in a very natural 
way.
Helen


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