Re: dance of death

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

I don't see any specific connection, but this reminds me of the many 
"memento mori" of the middle ages.  Particularly, a gorgeous painting of 
the Northern Renaissance period comes to mind: a beautiful bride and 
groom in a forest setting.  On the reverse is painted the same scene, 
but the subjects have been changed to skeletal figures, and they may be 
dancing, I cannot recall.  (In the Cleveland Museum of Art.)
Lorele

Moshe Berlin wrote:

> In Mazor's book on "The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel", 
> there is a reference to T'khiyes-Hameysim Tants, wherefrom it seems 
> that this dance is not especially related to weddings. In Meron, like 
> in other Jewish festivities, this dance was performed (by 2 dancers) 
> to a Doina tune. In Mazor's CD (attached to his book) there is a 
> recording  of  T'khiyes-Hameysim Tants as performed in Meron (#16). 
> Originally it was a dance by itself, and later on a Broygez Tants was 
> combined to it at the beginning. The relation "wedding - death" is 
> worth another discussion.
>
>  
>
> Moshe Berlin
>
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>     Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 1:08 PM
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>     Subject: Re: dance of death
>
>
>     I'm familiar with the T'khiyes-Hameysim Tants/Dance of
>     Resurrection - but I have never seen one danced. My understanding
>     is that two men fight, one "accidentally" kills the other, but
>     with the help of bronfn, the killee is revived. All in the context
>     of the khasene, like the broyges tants.
>
>     Would be interested to read an eye-witness report (and which
>     community it took place in, when, what city, etc.) - and also,
>     what is the ostensible purpose?
>
>     Dena
>
>
>     Cantor Sam Weiss wrote:
>
>     >In the last couple of centuries it was more commonly called The
>     Dance of
>     >Resurrection (T'khiyes-Hameysim Tants),&nbsp; a Chassidic variant
>     of the
>     >Broygez Tants.<br><br>
>     >At 08:37 AM 7/2/02, Michel Borzykowski wrote:<br>
>     ><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial"
>     size=2>shalom
>     >khevre!</font><br>
>     >&nbsp;<br>
>     ><font face="arial" size=2>Has anybody heard about a &quot;dance of
>     >death&quot; played by klezmorim at Jewish weddings?</font><br>
>     ><font face="arial" size=2>Michal</blockquote>
>     ><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> 
>

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