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Traditional klezmer dance -- where?



In that really long thread that I mostly "marked read", I happened to read this 
message from Helen Winkler:

>I'm just wondering if traditional Eastern European  Jewish dances are still
>done to any extent at Orthodox/Hasidic simkhes in other parts of the world.
>I read an article that the macarena was the popular dance at least in the
>late 90's http://www.jewishsf.com/bk971024/etcraze.htm.  Are klezmer
>festivals going to be the only places where we continue to do these dances?

Speaking of which, where was the traditional dancing at KlezKamp? I was 
expecting all kinds of traditional stuff to go on there, but it was just wild 
jumping around. Jumping around is nice, but I really wanted to learn and see 
some of the old stuff -- and it seemed like no one was doing it!

Yakov.
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