Danny Pollock's interest in Israeli folk dance blossomed in childhood. At age 10, he would sit patiently as his mother took lessons, observing her movements. Then one day as he sat watching, the ...

The songs of prayer and worship that Eyal Reuveni remembers as a toddler living in Israel seemed like muted background music from a distant time and place. But these days, the Irvine teen has found a ...

Some Israeli folk dances are based on musical traditions from all over the world that are centuries old, but the dances also continue to evolve as today’s participants keep adding new music and new ...

When Dana March, a freshman at Colorado College, comes home to Menlo Park on her breaks, she plans her social schedule very carefully. "My friends all know, no matter how little time I have, I won't ...

RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – Like all other mass gatherings now, Israel’s Karmiel dance festival, one of the largest of its kind in the world, was postponed. The annual fest, which takes place at the end ...

Instructors are bringing the tradition online for hundreds of thousands around the world who revel in the movement. RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – Like all other mass gatherings now, Israel’s Karmiel dance ...

A complex 20th-century history allowed for few outside influences, but Israeli folk dances left a lasting impact. For many of these locals, the dances are familiar, almost second nature. All over the ...

“I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I may not be able to avoid it,” choreographer Hadar Ahuvia said last fall at Brooklyn Studios for Dance, during a preview of her latest work, “Everything ...

On Thursday evening, Sept. 28, the Oak Ridge Folk Dancers are sponsoring a workshop at the Claxton Community Center, 1150 Edgemoor Road, with Roberto Bagnoli, of Rome, Italy, teaching folk dances from ...

YILAN, Taiwan (JTA) — It was a cool spring day in Yilan, a town on Taiwan’s northeast coast known for its picturesque rice fields and delicious spring onions. On a concrete clearing beneath a bridge ...