Judith will address the Minneapolis branch of the AAUW (American Association of University of
Women) about her dance and research, set up by the late Dede Ward Scanlon who died an untimely death in September, 2026 (Dede on left, Judith on right)
The Ephemera of Dance
We have to turn to books, photographs, the web, and fewer and fewer newspapers for dance coverage current or historical. It's distressing that there is no longer, in the entire American landscape, a full time dance critic. The most recent to eliminate a fulltime critic spotlighting dance was the New York Times. It is glorious when institutions including dance archives, have exhibitions of note. In 2026, the NYPL, The Performing Arts Archives at Lincoln Center, spotlighted the extraordinary 100 year career of Martha Graham. I exclaim over the importance of the recent biography of Martha Graham, Errand Into the Maze: The Life Works of Martha Graham by Debrorah Jowitt. Read Judith's reflection here. It will be published in the upcoming 50th issue of Dance Today or Mahol Akhshav, edited by Ruth Eshel. Judith began the magazine with Giora Manor 50 years ago. She is grateful for all Ruth has done to continue the glossy, up to date magazine covering dance in Israel and abroad.
In Minneapolis we had a rare exhibit at the University of Minnesota Dance Archives highlighting its dance holdings called The Roots of Minnesota Dance.(see more about this under Past Projects)
Judith’s Holocaust chapter, Exterminating Pests: Fireflies, Ladybugs and Children appears in the new, free, on-line text,
The Holocaust: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience.
Judith Brin Ingber is an international expert on Israeli and Jewish dance. In the anthology she edited,
"Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance," choreographer, dancer, and dance scholar Judith Brin Ingber collects wide-ranging essays and many remarkable photographs to explore the evolution of Jewish dance through two thousand years of Diaspora, in communities of amazing variety and amid changing traditions. Taken together, this wide range of expression illustrates the vitality, necessity, and continuity of dance in Judaism.
JUDITH'S revised articles ON JEWISH WOMEN DANCERS are included in the newest edition of the Jewish Women's Archives (JWA.org) International Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women.
Some of the revised dance encyclopedia entries by Judith include:
Modern Dance Performance in the United States
Jewish Women Dance Educators and Writers
Yardena Cohen
Also, if you're curious about Judith and the Brin matriarchy, look up the bio of Judith's sister Rabbi Deborah Brin, one of the first openly gay rabbis who led the first prayer service for Women of the Wall at the Conference for the Empowerment of Jewish Women in 1988; Judith's mother, Ruth F. Brin who helped transform modern prayer with her evocative writing, poetry and liturgy; Judith's paternal grandmother Fanny Fligelman Brin, suffragist, pacifist and riveting international speaker during the inter-war period, is also remembered as innovative president of the National Council of Jewish Women.
News & Events
The Fragile Coverage of Dance in Archives, Media, and Literature
Judith announces with great pride that there is a new dance archives at the Ohio State University, Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute Thompson Library Special Collections. It is the Judith Brin Ingber Jewish Dance Archives.
Information from her new archives at the Ohio State can be coordinated through the readers' guides of her collection at the Israel Dance Library and her collection at the Performing Arts Archives of the Elmer L. Andersen Library at the University of Minnesota. This new Jewish Dance Archives in her name has been several years in the making, primarily through the inspiration of Hannah Kosstrin, Ohio State's director of graduate studies in dance and also director of their Melton Center for Jewish Studies. Some of the features in the new archives include over 100 letters from Giora Manor, the eminent Israeli Dance critic with whom Judith founded the first Israeli dance magazine in 1975.
Upper left: husband Jerome and grandson Zack taking some of the cartons to the post office to send to Ohio State. Lower left: unpacked cartons on floor of Judith's study. Lower right: Yehuda Hyman helping with organizing the archives.
Top image: Judith with one of her first donations to the Dance LIbrary of Israel in the central Tel Aviv Plaza looking towards the original entry of the Tel Aviv Museum. Also on the plaza is the Municipal Court House and the Municipal Library which houses the Dance Library of Israel. Bottom left: The transformed Plaza now called "Hostage Square" where families have prayed, expounded and exhibited photos of the captured after the Hamas incursion into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. (Of the 251 captured,168 living hostages have been returned to Israel, a final 20 hostages during the 2025 Sukkot holiday).
Remembering, life, and the creativity of the arts all continue, as well as hopes for a lasting peace.
Top image: Judith's husband, Jerome, with Director of the Dance Library of Israel, Victoria Khodorkovsky. Bottom image: Here Victoria and I are discussing what was in this newest delivery from my Minneapolis study.
A Toast to Phillip
On November 26, 2022, Philip toasted Judith on the 50th Anniversary of the Choreographers Evening, the now annual program she began at Walker Art Center.
Now Judith toasts Philip who has been awarded the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts Award which honors him for his unusual world wide contribution to the arts especially in France.
Those celebrating included: Judith, l to r with dance critic Sheila Regan; choreographers April Sellers, Mathew Janczewski, Kristin Van Loon; Julie Voigt, Senior Program Officer of Walker’s Performing Arts Dept.; choreographer Laurie Van Wieren and Jerome Ingber.
Judith's Dedication
Judith is honored with the simple but bold dedication on the opening page of the important, new Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance.
It reads: Dedicated to Judith Brin Ingber
Wendy Perron, "Dance Magazine" Editor-at-large, reviews the important Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance:
The far-reaching Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance is both a culmination of decades of scholarship and a new look into the intersection of dance and Jewishness. No longer an obscure, occasional practice, Jewish dance scholarship has arrived. It has been accumulating for years, with Judith Brin Ingber, to whom the book is dedicated, leading the way. Researchers like Dina Roginsky, Henia Rottenberg, and Nina Spiegel have carried the torch. Young scholars like Hannah Kosstrin and Rebecca Rossen have recently given us provocative books and essays, laying the foundation for this new phase of investigation. | Read the full review here
Judith co-edited the unusual all English issue Mahol Achshav (Dance Today) #36 with Israeli editor Ruth Eshel.
The articles, by international dancers, dance researchers, dance educators, stem from the ‘Jews and Jewishness in the Dance World’ conference at Arizona State University.
