Yiddish Summer Weimar - Germany's best known festival of Yiiddish Music - 2008: July 10th - August 15th

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This year’s dance workshop (in English and German) will be a meeting of our familiar Yiddish dance repertoire (freylekhs, sher, hora, etc.) with a special repertoire of Yiddish and Transylvanian Gypsy dance and music brought to us by Bob Cohen (USA/Hungary) and Di Naye Kapelye. Dance teachers Florin Kordoban (Romania) and Sue Foy (Hungary) will be our guides to this repertoire, accompanied as always by live music. We are also delighted to welcome back esteemed Yiddish dance teachers Michael Alpert (USA), Andreas Schmitges (Germany) and Zev Feldman (USA/Israel), who will bring with them news from the recent international conference on Yiddish dance in New York.

 

July, 25th - 28th 2008: Dance Workshop for Dancers

 

Faculty dance master:

Florin Kordoban (Romania)

Sue Foy (Hungary)
Michael Alpert (USA)
Zev Feldman (USA/Israel)

Andreas Schmitges (Deutschland)

 
Artist in Residence:

Helene Domergue (France)


Extensive information (by Bob Cohen) and links to audio and video examples [PDF]
 

participation fee 200 € or 160 € (reduced),

[discounts possible, see: 'conditions']

 

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To the workshops 2008

Instrumental Workshop
for Advanced Musicians

Dance Music
for Dance Musicians

Dance Workshop
for Dancers

Yiddish Song

Beginning and Intermediate Yiddish Language

Music Theory for Folk Musicians

Workshop Introduction to Yiddish Music & Song

Klezmer Ensemble Coaching

 

PDF-Downloads

Application for yiddish dance

Conditions yiddish dance

overview YSW 2008

Dance DVD

You ever like to know how to dance a Hora? Or a Sher? Did you know that you can wonderfully dance to “The Lion sleeps tonight” – not only in hassidic communities? No? Then the Dance DVD which was produced during the Yiddish Summer Weimar 2007 offers the best insight into traditional Yiddish dance repertoire and traditional and modern hassidic dances. These were taught by the capable dance masters Jill Gellerman (New York, USA), Helene Domergue-Zilberberg (Nimes, France), Erik Bendix (Cincinnatti, USA) and Andreas Schmitges (Köln, Germany) within the Dance workshop. On this DVD all dances of the workshop are introduced by detailed teaching sessions. The dances are accompanied by the participants of the dance music workshop under the direction of Christian Dawid (Berlin, Germany), Binyomin Ginzberg (New Jersey, USA) and Alan Bern (Berlin, Germany). The DVD wonderfully prepares a participation in the dance workshop of the Yiddish Summer Weimar and makes you hungry for more – because to learn live is the best!

The DVD costs 20 Euro for workshop participants and members of other music and 50 Euro for prospective buyer from outside.   

 

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