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Extending the Traditional Wedding Dance: Inbal's Yemenite Wedding and the Beggars' Dance in Habimah's The Dybbuk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Giora Manor
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In this paper we will consider Jewish wedding dances in the theatrical situation on stage, rather than in their actual setting. Even in life there is an element of drama in weddings: some are comic, and many a tragedy begins with marriage. There can hardly be found two so dissimilar staged wedding dances as Sara Levi-Tanai's dance drama Yemenite Wedding (Tel Aviv, 1956) and Vakhtangov's Beggars' Dance in the second act of Habimah's drama The Dybbuk (Moscow, 1922). Nevertheless, the two works can be compared, revealing the basic problems to be solved by choreographers attempting to carry ethnic, traditional folk dance onto the theatrical stage without destroying its structure and ambience.

Type
Dancing into Marriage: Collected Papers on Jewish Wedding Dances
Information
Dance Research Journal , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , Fall 1985 , pp. 71 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1985

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