For a sneak preview of Judith's forthcoming book, "Perspectives on Israeli and Jewish Dance," see a few of the photos below and read one of the interviews of the Yiddish dancing-master Felix Fibich. This book will be the first collection in English of 21 important essays on the richness and diversity of Jewish dance and dance in Israel by valued dance writers who are also performers, historians, critics, sociologists and ethnographers from the Middle East, Europe and America. Some of the exciting essays include an update of the historic Shorashim: The Roots of Israeli Folk Dance; Simcha Bais Hasha'eva in Crown Heights: Rehearsing for the Ultimate Simcha Among the Lubavitcher Hasidim; Structural Changes and Cultural Meanings in the Israeli Folk Dance Movement; Searching for Moving Metaphors: Jewishness in American Modern; Postmodern Dance and Naming it Jewish? The Dichotomy Between Jewish and Israeli Dance.

View a few of the illustrations for "Perspectives on Israeli and Jewish Dance".

For further info contact Judith Brin Ingber.

Judith one of the presenters at the first Conney Conference on Jewish Arts called "Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture".
See the Jewish Chronicle article.

Judith wins Special Citation Sage Award!
StarTribune Article

“Judith Brin Ingber has chosen to celebrate the Jewish body and tell our amazing story in dance, and we can be glad of that. ‘When the heart is glad,’ goes the old folk saying, ‘the feet are ready to dance.’”

Mordecai Specktor, American Jewish World
May 17, 2002

“The beauty, expertise, scholarship, and professionalism that informs your performance is truly moving...for those few of the people who thought Sephardic music and dance foreign was not easily accessible, your performance was a valuable introduction...”

The Wexner Foundation,
New York