Re: Yiddish Dance Workshop

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

Hi Helen,

I have a few pictures from the weekend, and was thinking of putting up a 
webpage with them, and links to the various descriptions we posted about the 
weekend. May I include yours? If you have it online already, I'll be happy to 
link to your website.

ari

At 11:10 PM 10/14/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>I just got off the plane and stepped in the door after that wonderful dance
>weekend in Neskaya.  It was a workshop in every sense of the word.  I
>especially enjoyed the way  Zev presented the styling of the
>dances--something that one can't learn from written dance descriptions.  We
>spent several hours just learning about typical hand movements and gestures,
>and lots about improvisation.  It was a joy to dance beside people who I've
>known online for years now, but had never met before, and an honour and
>privilege to be taught by Zev.  And of course,  I have never before had the
>opportunity to dance for two whole days and evenings to live music (although
>out of habit, I kept waiting for the CD to skip every time we stomped in
>unison--Seth and Beverly are working on recreating this, just so next time I
>won't be homesick:) ).  Kudos to Jenny and the sacred circle dancers at
>Neskaya for arranging all of this, feeding us all and arranging
>transportation.  All in all a great dance event.  I plan to notate what was
>taught for future reference.  Here is my listing of what went on:
>
>Slow Hora (Jewish and Moldavian Variants)
>Country Hora (uses 2/4 music)
>Bucovina Hora
>Freylekhs with improvisations
>Bulgar and variations
>Honga (group version and individual version)
>Jewish Sirba (different than Romanian sirba)
>
>(all taught in the dance style of  Jews from Moldova)
>
>Looking forward to attending more events like this one!
>
>
>Helen
>
>Helen Winkler
>Helen's Yiddish Dance Page
>www.angelfire.com/ns/helenwinkler
>
>Calgary Folkdance Fridays
>http://www.telusplanet.net/public/winklerj/cff.html
>


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