It was an inauspicious debut, to be sure, when I finally allowed myself to be dragged onto the stage on a recent Saturday afternoon for the Father-Daughter number in my youngest daughter, Leah’s, ...

Mayim, mayim, mayim, mayim. Brazil is not usually considered to be one of the worldwide centers of cultural Jewish life. But the country recently hosted what is believed to be the largest Jewish dance ...

This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Dr. Walter Zev Feldman, a leading researcher of Turkish and Jewish music and an exquisite dancer, visited Japan this year with his wife Dr.

Upshtat Zingerai play Jewish simhah dance music for a wedding at the South Shore Cultural Center. From left to right: Emma Blau, Jonah Lazarus, Qi Yang, Hannah Mira Friedland, and Ethan Aronson Credit ...

(JTA)- Even before Nazi racial laws turned her into a wanted person in her native Netherlands, Roosje Glaser had limited patience for rules. A lighthearted and sometimes frivolous Jewish dance ...

What makes a dance Jewish? To answer this question, you have to identify the similarities between the ecstatic, joyful round dances of the Hasidim and the politically-inspired, modernist choreography ...

Here are images of Jewish bodies in motion: Hasidic men dancing the “bottle dance”; kibbutzniks in the 1940s dancing in a celebration of Chag Ha’Bikkurim (Festival of the First Fruits); Kurdish elders ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tanowitz and the composer David Lang talk about how their new work is informed by biblical poetry, Israeli folk dance and their Jewish heritage. By ...