The people never stopped dancing! 
(Title inspired by Jacqueline Shea Murphy)
Yiddish dance now

Workshop capped at 8 people.

Come learn the basics of Yiddish dance! This repertoire of diasporic dances has been preserved and passed on by cultural bearers in the Klezmer music scene! We will learn the dances alongside the details of the music to which they are connected. We will also engage in improvisational practices to participate in the dances' continued evolution. We will dance freylekhs, zhoks, khussidles, bulgars -roots based repertoire to bring to your next joyous diasporic Jewish gathering. 

hadar ahuvia is a dance artist and rabbincial student. She has studied Yiddish dance with Avia Moore, Michael Alpert, and Sarah Meyerson. She has also had the honor of collaborating  with Jenny Romaine and Rosza Lang Levitsky and the Klezkanada 2015 performance workshop participants on accessible, seated versions of the dances. Having spent many years deconstructing Israeli folk dance, she is excited to reclaim this repertoire which Zionists choreographers rejected as a source for their state building dances. She is excited to share the old news that secular and religious Ashkenazi Jewish people have always been dancing.

hadar will have the west coast premier of her newest dance work nefesh at ODC SF- reserve your seat here by July 26!

The cost of this workshop is a sliding scale of $18-$36, payable directly to hadar ahuvia via her venmo or cash.

Masks are required for this workshop.

*Our home at 333 Cortland Ave is a building which requires climbing 21 steps to access. If this poses a barrier to entry for you, but you wish to attend any of our events, please email rabbifaryn@orshalomsf.org with at least 5 days' notice. We will seek a change of venue.