Re: Yiddish folk dancing on campus

[mashke <mashke...>]

It doesn't have to be solely on campus. A few years ago Edie Epstein (A Little 
Klez) organzied a Yiddish dance in what I recall as being a church social hall 
in Westford, MA (a somewhat far suburb of Boston). Jacob Bloom led the dancing 
and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. I don't know what happened to the 
momentum of that but I haven't heard of anything about it recently.

Dick Rosenberg
> There was recently a klezmer concert/dance here at Tufts, so I asked Michael 
> McLaughlin, the band teacher, what he saw. The results are posted on the 
> KlezmerShack (try http://www.klezmershack.com/archives/000150.html if it's 
> not 
> visible on the main page). 
> 
> What I'm wondering, based on recent comments made to me in private, and to 
> the 
> list, is whether there is noticable interest in Yiddish folk dancing, 
> compared 
> to interest in Israeli dancing. Here in the Boston area, for instance, you 
> can 
> do English Country Dance or Contradance, almost any night of the week. You 
> can 
> dance to Balkan music almost as frequently. Israeli folk dancing is held 
> regularly at MIT and I believe, at least one other location. Yiddish dancing? 
> Not on most calendars. And it isn't clear to me that when such an event is 
> held, 
> many Jews show up--it =does= seem like the sort of thing that attracts some 
> non-Jews who love any international folk dance more than, say, Jews.
> 
> ari
> 
> 
> Ari Davidow
> ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
> list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
> 
> 

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