The AJS Conversation Series and the Jewish Music Forum,
A Project of the American Society for Jewish Music
are pleased to present:
"Dance and Disability in Israeli and Jewish Contexts"
Thursday, July 28, 2022
2:00-4:30 PM Eastern
FREE!
Live on Zoom
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Featuring:
Performances of the Body: From Ideal to Impaired in Israeli National Dancing
Dina Roginsky, Yale University Hiding her face: To face the crip body in Lehrer’s self-portraits Dr. nili Broyer, Center for Disability Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ageing Professional Dancers in Israel – New Traditions, New Bodies
Dr. Yael (yali) Nativ, The Academic College for Arts and Society & Levinsky College of Education, Israel About the panel: This panel will discuss the complicated junction of dance and disability within Israeli and Jewish contexts. While the phenomenon of “disability dance,” an art form in which dancer with and without disabilities collaborate, has received a growing scholarly attention in recent years, arguing for the empowering force of disability performance art, the specific junction where dance, disability, and Jewish studies come together, has not received much scholarly scrutiny. In this panel we ask to remedy this lacuna, inviting scholars to reflect upon the Jewish and Israeli aspects of disability dance they have encountered in their studies, examining the complicated cultural meeting between dance and disability, which are typically considered oppositional, and in conflict with each other. The Jewish and Israeli contexts invite further thoughts on the cultural binarism dividing dance and disability, and different possibilities to challenge it. The papers in this panel are challenging distinctions between dance and disability from varied points of views, including prisms such as age, nationality, and performance studies. The papers identify social processes and representations that allow for disability, bodily difference, and dance to exist side by side, in the same public spaces, and within the same bodies, due, for example, to specific imageries of the dancing body within the history of Israeli dance, and new performances that altering the image of the imperfect Jewish body. Chairperson: Dr. Gili Hammer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Presenters: Dr. nili Broyer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Prof. Dina Roginsky (Yale University), and Dr. Yali Nativ (The Academic College for Arts and Society & Levinsky College of Education). To register or learn more about the panel, click HERE
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