- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- Contributor Biographies
- Introduction
- Into the Light
- (Not Just) Az der rebbe tantst: Toward an Inclusive History of Hasidic Dance
- Felix Fibich and Torqueing as a Central Motif in Modern Male Subjectivity
- Send Off
- From Victimized to Victorious: Re-Forming Post-Holocaust Jewish Embodied Identity through Dance
- Mapping a Mizrahi Presence in Israeli Concert Dance: Representations and Receptions of Yemenite Jewish Life on Stage from 1920 to the Present
- From the Other Side: An Interview with Ethiopian-Israeli Dance Artist Dege Feder
- Believing Body, Dancing Body: Dance and Faith in the Religious Sector in Israel
- My Body is My Torah
- Trance-Forming the Nation: Trance-Dance Parties for Orthodox Singles in Israel
- HaMapah/The Map: Navigating Intersections
- I, You, We: Dancing Interconnections and Jewish Betweens
- Then in What Sense Are You a Jewish Artist?: Conflicts of the “Emancipated” Self 1
- The Godseeker: Akim Volynsky and Ballet as a Jewish Quest
- The Nearness of Judaism
- Raising Cain: Dancing the Ethics and Poetics of Diaspora in Flamenco
- Forbidden Movements and Degenerate Bodies: Personal Reflections on Black Social Dance and Jewish Resistance
- Reclaiming my Jewish Yemenite Heritage
- It Was There All Along: Theorizing a Jewish Narrative of Dance and (Post-)Modernism
- Anna Halprin’s Radical Body: Ethics, Empowerment, and the Environment
- Jewish Roots and Principles of Dance Therapy
- The Micro-Gestures of Survival: Searching for the Lost Traces
- Three Reflections on the Holocaust
- Excavating Holocaust History: Site, Memory, and Community in Tamar Rogoff’s Ivye Project
- Choreographing Livability after Oslo: Israeli Women Choreographers and Collective Responsibility
- The Cultural Politics of Practicing Israeli-ness in Gaga
- Arkadi Zaides: An Israeli Choreographer?
- Embodied Identification and Social Exchange: Israelis and American Jews Dancing in New York City
- Unfixing Folk Dance: Community, Continuity, and Reinvention
- Joy Vey: Choreographing a Radical Diasporic Israeliness
- Writing Jewishness in Dance: Strategies for Empowering a Broad Diaspora
- Glossary
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
In this chapter the choreographers Alexx Shilling, Yehuda Hyman, and Suzanne Miller describe dances that both respond to and turn away from the defining legacy of the Holocaust. Shilling narrates the creation of her performance work Absence: A History. For both Shilling and her performers, the stage became a laboratory for re-imagining and re-embodying ancestral histories—destabilizing testimony and photography as the primary means of remembering. Hyman, vacationing in Germany, discovered that a memorial fountain had been built on the unexcavated remains of a former synagogue. He writes an instruction manual on how to prepare and execute a Jewish dance action and logs the action itself as well as its repercussions over the following two years. Moshe, Moishe, Moses documents Needle and Thread, a commemorative performance that grew from a list of six hundred names of Holocaust victims collected by Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Miller discusses how a rigorous choreography provides a means to bear the loss and honor the lineage of her Jewish forebears.
Keywords: dance, choreography, site dance, memorial, postmemory, Holocaust, Shoah, Yad Vashem, pages of testimony, Germany
Rebecca Pappas is a choreographer and scholar whose work has toured nationally and internationally. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
Alexx Shilling is a performer, choreographer, and filmmaker who recently relocated to the New York area after teaching at Cal State Long Beach, Loyola Marymount University, and The Wooden Floor.
Yehuda Hyman is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds an MFA in dance from Sarah Lawrence College.
Suzanne Miller is the Company Director of Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio Productions, and a choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Montreal, Canada.
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- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Companion Website
- Contributor Biographies
- Introduction
- Into the Light
- (Not Just) Az der rebbe tantst: Toward an Inclusive History of Hasidic Dance
- Felix Fibich and Torqueing as a Central Motif in Modern Male Subjectivity
- Send Off
- From Victimized to Victorious: Re-Forming Post-Holocaust Jewish Embodied Identity through Dance
- Mapping a Mizrahi Presence in Israeli Concert Dance: Representations and Receptions of Yemenite Jewish Life on Stage from 1920 to the Present
- From the Other Side: An Interview with Ethiopian-Israeli Dance Artist Dege Feder
- Believing Body, Dancing Body: Dance and Faith in the Religious Sector in Israel
- My Body is My Torah
- Trance-Forming the Nation: Trance-Dance Parties for Orthodox Singles in Israel
- HaMapah/The Map: Navigating Intersections
- I, You, We: Dancing Interconnections and Jewish Betweens
- Then in What Sense Are You a Jewish Artist?: Conflicts of the “Emancipated” Self 1
- The Godseeker: Akim Volynsky and Ballet as a Jewish Quest
- The Nearness of Judaism
- Raising Cain: Dancing the Ethics and Poetics of Diaspora in Flamenco
- Forbidden Movements and Degenerate Bodies: Personal Reflections on Black Social Dance and Jewish Resistance
- Reclaiming my Jewish Yemenite Heritage
- It Was There All Along: Theorizing a Jewish Narrative of Dance and (Post-)Modernism
- Anna Halprin’s Radical Body: Ethics, Empowerment, and the Environment
- Jewish Roots and Principles of Dance Therapy
- The Micro-Gestures of Survival: Searching for the Lost Traces
- Three Reflections on the Holocaust
- Excavating Holocaust History: Site, Memory, and Community in Tamar Rogoff’s Ivye Project
- Choreographing Livability after Oslo: Israeli Women Choreographers and Collective Responsibility
- The Cultural Politics of Practicing Israeli-ness in Gaga
- Arkadi Zaides: An Israeli Choreographer?
- Embodied Identification and Social Exchange: Israelis and American Jews Dancing in New York City
- Unfixing Folk Dance: Community, Continuity, and Reinvention
- Joy Vey: Choreographing a Radical Diasporic Israeliness
- Writing Jewishness in Dance: Strategies for Empowering a Broad Diaspora
- Glossary
- Index
