Education jly icEdid xywd YourYour Jewish Jewish (Internet) Connection Connection! Brought to you by the Lifelong Learning Committee – Written by Linda S Trapasso Happy Feet Don’t you just love to ? I’ve of the founders of The School of danced since I was a young girl, American ). Moreover, King taking ballet and tap lessons. As Juan Carlos I of Spain honored a young adult, I would dance at an Israeli dancer for concerts and always at weddings. training generations of flamenco I eventually moved to country dancers in a studio. line dancing. A few years ago I (Wikipedia) national identity. One of these discovered ballroom dancing. I The Romanian Jewish dancer is Mayim Mayim, created don’t dance much now, but I’m Baruch Agadati introduced the in the late 1930s when water was very happy when I am dancing. , a circle dance, in . In discovered at Kibbutz Na’an. I’m Many Eastern European folk thinking dances were given a Zionist twist about to become Israeli folk dances. The trying Yivo Encyclopedia of in contra Eastern Europe has an interesting dancing. article on dance divided between The other traditional dance and theatrical type of 1924, he worked together with dance. Unfortunately, folk dance dance I a composer and songwriter to is not as popular now in Israel love? Jewish dance! choreograph a show performed by as it was, and are turning How many kinds of Jewish dance the Ohel Theater Company, which to more contemporary forms of are there? Well, there is Israeli folk toured the pioneer settlements of dance. dancing and Yiddish or the Jezreel Valley. Horah Agadati, However, there is still time to dance. (Most of us lump these into as the dance was known, became dance! the same category.) Did you know an instant success, is danced now The MIT Folk Dance Club has that there is Yemenite dancing throughout the diaspora, and often Israeli dancing at the Jewish based on hopping in place? Or is danced to the music of Hava Community Day School in that in Russia and France, many Nagila. Watertown, MA, and information Jews were responsible for ballet? According to MyJewishLearning, on other dancing and dance In the US, the list includes Jerome Israeli folk dance was part of an groups. Robbins, Anna Sokolow, Arthur effort to increase Israel’s folk Note that The Israel Folkdance Murray, and Lincoln Kirstein (one culture and was a way to bolster Festival of Boston is March 10, 2019.  Information on Israeli folk dance around Boston has many links, but  be sure to call to verify events. And don’t forget to check out  the videos on YouTube of Israeli dance (just search on Israeli  dance). After watching some of  those videos, I bet your feet will  be happy!   22