Israeli zoom dancing in December

Hi dancers. I didn’t even eat a real Thanksgiving dinner, but I need exercise anyway. Have to make room for latkes. Our following meeting, Dec. 16, will be the 7th night of Chanukah, we can light candles on zoom.I guess we should do the one Chanukah dance then,...

Dancing on Zoom every two weeks

Hi dancers, we meet every two weeks in an informal way. We keep discovering ways to improve our technological expertise. We figured out shared sound, so the music quality is good. Mark put up a bright light in the room, and the camera is a lot happier now. I think it...

Dancing on Zoom

Hi dancers, I’ve missed everyone… I have attended some large and fancy zoom dance events, but I mostly don’t know the people, or the dances either. I have finally solved enough technical issues to host an informal zoom reunion, which can be repeated...

Dancing on Zoom?

It’s a sad fact that folk dancing does not lend itself to social distancing in any way. Even without holding hands, the increased respiration and movement through a shared space, and for a long duration of time, has much more potential for virus transmission...

Post-Thanksgiving note

Dancers, I hope your Thanksgiving was a good one. Thanks to all who registered, we are out of the woods. I believe you can still register but have to telephone at this point, rather than do it online. https://srcity.org/559/Active-Adults Our coming dates are Dec. 4...

Kurdish Israeli folk dance

For our October 16 class we will learn Debka Kurdit. Kurdish Jewish Israelis have a special festival called Saharane held during Sukkot in Jerusalem. 13,000 people have attended in past years; the Kurdish community in Israel numbers approximately 200,000. Most came to...