Jewish Women Dance Educators and Writers
As in modern dance performance, a disproportionate number of American Jewish women have specialized in dance education and writing. They have displayed a longstanding interest in analyzing dance and establishing its place within academic artistic disciplines and pioneered the relatively new academic discipline known as Jewish Dance Studies.
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Some Dance Educators
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Some Dance Writers
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Jewish Dance Studies
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Aloff, Mindy and Yehuda Hyman, eds. “Three Hasidic Dances.” Dance in America: A Reader’s Anthology. New York: The Library of America. 2018, 384-390.
Banes, Sally. Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
Banes, Sally. Writing Dance in the Age of Postmodernism. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1994.
Barzel. Ann. “Obituary”. Dance Magazine. June 2007.
Chazin-Bennahum, Judith. Rene Blum & The Ballets Russes: In Search of a Lost Life. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Cohen, Selma Jeanne and Yohanen Boehn. “Dance.” Encyclopedia Judaica (1982). V. 5. 1262-1274.
Cohen. Ze’eva. Oral history of Cohen’s work with interview by Monica Moseley. 6 hours. New York Public Library Dance Division, Lincoln Center.
Hadassah. “Hadassah Dies at 83. Dancer and Instructor.” New York Times. Nov. 19, 1992.
Harris, Joanna Gewertz. Beyond Isadora: Bay Area Dancing, 1915-1965. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press. 2009.
Ingber, Judith Brin, ed. with Ruth Eshel, ed. Mahol Akhshav [Dance Today #36]. September, 2019. Accessed June 30, 2020. https://www.israeldance-diaries.co.il/en/.
Ingber, Judith Brin, ed. Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011.
Manning, Susan. Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
Pappas, Rebecca. “Always Already, The Jewish Body as Victim and Victimizer.” Brynn Shiovitz, ed. The Body, The Dance and The Text: Essays on Performance and the Margins of History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Books, 2019.
Prevots, Naima. Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998.
Prevots, Naima. American Pageantry: A Movement for Art and Democracy. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1990.
Reimer-Strickler, Susan. “Jewish Dance: A Troubled Ecstasy.” Response 8 (3). 1974: 16-18.
Rosen. Lillie F. “Review of ‘We Are Here’.” Attitude. 6 (2), 1989-1990.
Rossen. Lille F. “Review of ‘Who Had Kissed Me?’ At LaMama.” Attitude 9 (1), 1992.
Schwadron, Hannah. The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-work in US Pop Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Tobias, Toby. Oral History Interview of Robert Cohen, transcribed. Dance Division of the Public Library, Lincoln Center. New York. 1978.
Zimmer, Elizabeth and Susan Quasher, eds. Body Against Body: The Dance and Other Collaborations of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. New York: Station Hill Press, 1989.
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