Re: "Israeli" Dance

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

At 09:34 PM 5/7/2003 -0700, you wrote: 
>
> What is "Israeli dancing", anyway, but re-packaged Yiddish dancing?  



No, I don't think that many people would refer to it that way, but I'll let
people who spend more time dancing than I speak to details. Consider, however,
that Israeli dancing is a recent creation, not, as you correctly not, a folk
tradition.

And the dance traditions have very different histories in this country. One is
associated with the creation of a new state, the other, with something that
people did right off the boat.

ari


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