Zer Kisufim

Our surprise guest Naftaly Kadosh taught us his new dance, “Zer Kisufim”, last week.  Here’s the video of him dancing it with Karen Kaplan at Hilula.  Enjoy.  And yes, we are OPEN next Monday, Memorial Day!  

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Tachzeri – תחזרי

Great night tonight! Thanks so much for coming and bringing such great energy!! Tonight’s new teach was “Tachzeri” by Rafi Ziv – not an easy dance, but worth the effort. Watch it here:
or you can also watch our own community doing it at Yoni’s mini-camp.

And yes, we are OPEN on Memorial Day – thanks for asking :)
See you next Monday!

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Ahavat Emet – אהבת אמת

Tonight’s dance is another one from Mishel and Gil who recently gave us the very cute and fun Ksheani Mitahev.  This one is the slow and pretty Ahavat Emet – True Love.  We first learned it last summer.  Here’s the video!

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Up and coming… and upcoming!

Hi all,

As you know, aside from Monday nights, I teach Israeli dance at quite a few other places during the year, including Camp Alonim (send your kids!) and New Community Jewish High School (send your kids!).  I also do workshops around the country… and now around the world, too!  Two that are coming up are here in California – maybe you can join me at one of them!

This Saturday night (4/28) I’ll be teaching at the University of California, Berkeley – a one-night workshop that is a culmination of the semester-long Israeli dance class there and it’s open to the public as well!  8pm-midnight, $2 for non-students. You can find those details here.

Also coming up in Northern California is the California Folkdance Federation’s annual Statewide Festival.  This year the Federation is celebrating its 70th year and the teachers are Steve Kotansky, teaching Balkan dances, and me, teaching Israeli, of course :)  That one’s in San Jose, May 18-20 – and you can get tickets for the whole weekend or a la carte for any portions of it that interest you!  More on that at the Federation’s Statewide page.

And one more further afield – I’m doing two workshops in Southern Brazil at the end of May:  the 25-27th in Porto Alegre and June 1-3 in Curitiba.  This will be my first time teaching in Brazil – (but my fourth continent!)  You can find the details (and my bio in Portuguese!!) at www.dancascirculares.org  - click on “Agenda 2012″ on the left and scroll down to Maio/Junho (May/June).  If you have any connections in Brazil that you want to hook me up with, let me know!

Thanks and see you in Brazil!  Or on Monday in Westwood

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Ve’ani Shar video!

Hi all – Ve’ani Shar is finally embed-able and not just on Facebook. Here it is – enjoy – and study up on this one if you missed it, because it’s a keeper!

Last Monday I taught At Bemachshavotai (Eifo At) by Rafi – when a video is available, you’ll find it here!

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Ksheani Mitahev

Yay, I’m back! So good to see you all!  Huge thanks, of course, to Harel and Liatt for doing a great job while I was away – if they did anything I don’t usually do that you think I should… let me know!

Tonight’s dance was the cute and fun new dance from Mishel and Gil Cohen, “Ksheani Mitahev” – did you like it?

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Lalechet

Tonight I taught Gadi Bitton’s “Lalechet”, from Hilulim last year. A beautiful waltz!

If you missed the teach, you can also watch the video of Gadi teaching it.

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