Advanced Yiddish Dance
Solo & Group Style
(by instructor's permission only)

August 5 - 9, 2025
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. | together with Yiddish Dance for Everyone
3 - 6 p.m. | advanced, advanced group meets on its own 

with Walter Zev Feldman
accompanied by Alan Bern & Zilyin Biret

In this workshop, we’ll explore the improvised solo and communicative dancing of the tentser and the tentserin. The individual comes to know themselves through this dance. It allows for shifts between the spiritual and the worldly, the tragic and the ironic, the proud and the humble, the ascetic and the sensual. While many of these emotional transitions are dependent on the accompanying music—particularly in the khosidl and skotshne genres—each dancer will feel and express them somewhat differently. Through individual dance, we’ll bring out and refine the individual styles of our dancers.  

An essential technique that we’ll focus on is to free the dancer’s upper body and expressive gestures from the “rules” of choreographic symmetry and the dominance of the “motor rhythm”. Once free of these constraints, we can work toward further developing individual styles and learn to communicate with other dancers without abandoning each dancer’s individual style.

 

Please note! 
Advanced Yiddish Dance meets together in the mornings with Yiddish Dance for Everyone, led by Eli Benedict & Sarah Myerson, and meets on its own in the afternoons, led by Walter Zev Feldman. 

To request permission to join Advanced Yiddish Dance, please send an email describing your dance experience to .

Workshop fee:
395 € Standard / 270 € Reduced / 545 € Sponsor / 145 € under 18