Israeli dance with Erica
Every year, Erica teaches Israeli dances at events and workshops for audiences young and old, both in the Jewish world and beyond. In addition to Israeli dance leader, Erica has been an engineering linguist, a high school English teacher, and a nonprofit Chief Program Officer. Erica was the Director of Dance at Camp Alonim, the Jewish sleepaway camp where Israeli dancing is a shared obsession, for twelve summers, and has been an Educator for the Cornerstone Fellowship, a program of the Foundation for Jewish Camp, for over a decade.
After earning her MBA and an MA in Jewish Professional Leadership from the Hornstein Program at Brandeis University, Erica launched Ma’agal, an initiative to improve Israeli dance education at schools and camps across the nation. She is a grateful Wexner Fellow/Davidson Scholar and a proud alumna of the Ruskay Institute for Jewish Professional Leadership, a program of UJA-Federation of New York that she now directs (when she’s not dancing). In 2023, she taught Israeli dance on her fifth continent (so far!).
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Category Archives: Mondays
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… … Continue reading
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.
Agiley Damar – Shmulik Gov-Ari
What a nice week – the birthday party was great and so was Roberto’s workshop – thanks for coming out!! Now, for the video and a little story. Every year when we celebrate my birthday at the session, I pick … Continue reading
Birthday birthday birthday!
It’s my party and I’ll dance if I want to!! I love celebrating with you – come dancing tonight!! You know it’s gonna be awesome because I got balloons!! See you later 🙂
Sderot HaAhava – שדרות האהבה
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here is the video of tonight’s dance, Sderot Ha’ahava, danced by Moshe Tawily. I’ll post the video of Gadi doing it when it’s online – the dance is by both of them. If you want the … Continue reading
HaEilim Hachadashim (and Öp!)
Hi all, Two new videos for you this week! Here’s tonight’s dance, Nona Malki’s new partner dance HaEilim Hachadashim from Winter Rikud: and, as promised, Mitch Ginsburgh’s Öp! Enjoy!
Matok Hatapuach – מתוק התפוח
My first Monday after my trip to Italy (and Balkanot, the Israeli and Balkan Dance Camp!) and our first dance from Machol Miami – Yaron Malichi’s “Matok Hatapuach”. It’s apparently originally from 2009, but I hadn’t heard of it before. … Continue reading
Bachur Ragish – בחור רגיש
Right after Winter Rikud, Mitch taught us this dance, choreographed by Yoram Sasson. We also learned his dance, Öp, from Har-el – look for a video of that one coming soon!
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