Re: "Israeli" Dance

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

If you want to see what Israeli dance has become, you can watch some videos 
of the newest dances at:
http://homepage.mac.com/israeli_folk_dances/vhome.html

Israeli dance is all over the map--the newer dances seem more like jazz 
routines than anything else.  Certainly they're nothing like Yiddish dance 
in steps or style.  A major difference is the free-flowing, improvisational 
nature of many of the Yiddish dances, as compared to the set choreographed 
patterns that have always been a feature of Israeli dancing.  The Yiddish 
dances mostly evolved within communities while Israeli dances are created 
every week from the imaginations of choreographers.  Although there are some 
interesting investigations to be done in the area of some the Yiddish 
dances.  For example, one version of the slow hora that Zev Feldman teaches 
came from the Moldovan aristocracy--some sort of a court dance.  It's 
closely related to other of the hora foot patterns he taught us, but did a 
court dance master package this dance to suit the Moldovan aristocrats 
before it was adopted by the Jews?  This same foot pattern also emerged 
among the Serbian aristocracy under the Rule of King Milan and it's called 
Biserka, in Serbian folk dancing.

Helen




Helen Winkler
Helen's Yiddish Dance Page
http://www.angelfire.com/ns/helenwinkler
winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com

Calgary Folkdance Page
www.cadvision.com/winklerj/cff.html





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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


Ari Davidow
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