Klezmer has enjoyed a significant revival in the past few decades, but for a variety of reasons, the Yiddish dance tradition has been largely ignored. An upcoming symposium, Defining Yiddish Dance: ...

Most academic symposia don’t offer a steady supply of cold beer and hot pirogi. Fewer still offer the chance to see Michael Alpert, frontman for the progressive klezmer band Brave Old World, dancing ...

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 ...

“Yiddish dancing is roughly the collection of dances danced by Eastern European Jews, mostly prior to World War II.” The dances, which developed between the mid-1800s and mid-1900s, are quite varied ...

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 ...

Jewish-themed dance performances are featured during shows from May 12-14 in South Florida. For Program III of its season, Dance NOW! Miami has joined forces with the New York-based Limón Dance ...