May 20, 2013 at 4:42 pm by Timna Burston
Sydney is a New York City based dancer, choreographer, Artistic Director of Sydney Schiff Dance Project and currently an Arts Fellow at Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. To hear more about her project, check out her website and facebook page! In her own words: For the last 5 years, I have been exploring the relationship [...]
October 28, 2012 at 3:46 pm by Timna Burston
On October 11, ChEckiT!Dance performed the original piece “Ball and Chain” during Oholiav’s first event–the opening of the Text/Context exhibit at the Columbia/Barnard Hillel Kraft Center*. In the piece, choreographer Allison Brzezinski interprets the Shabbat blessing Eshet Chayil, a woman of valor, which tells of an ideal Jewish woman, and puts an interesting historical spin [...]
March 29, 2012 at 6:13 pm by Jonah Rank
The rock opera Next to Normal is all about living on the edge. Living on the edge of normal. Living on the edge of comfort. Living on the edge of stability. Τhe show breathes life into a peculiar teaching attributed to Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav: The world is a very narrow bridge, but the essence [...]
March 31, 2011 at 11:54 am by Jonah Rank
Can we be excellent ethical and spiritual soloists if we don’t know how to be part of an ensemble?
January 3, 2011 at 8:58 am by Timna Burston
Black Swan is an indescribable movie. It leaves you panting, shocked, throws down your defenses and makes you ache for more pain. If I am to try and sketch it in broad strokes, it is a movie that focuses on the psychological drama of a ballerina grappling with becoming the White Swan and the Black [...]