Miryam coppersmith biography examples
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Yiddish Dance Workshop with Mignolo Dance
Sat, Aug 10
|mignolo arts center
Time & Location
Aug 10, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
mignolo arts center, 272 Lake Ave, Metuchen, NJ 08840, USA
About the event
Yiddish dance offers many joyful and playful ways to dance to klezmer music: in a line, a circle, with a partner, or on your own. Join Miryam Coppersmith to learn about the history of "dancing Jewish," explore the different rhythms and dances of Eastern Europe, and get moving! Miryam is passionate about dancing being accessible for all and will offer modifications for mobility and accessibility needs. This one-off class is recommended for adults and teens.
Miryam Coppersmith (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, writer, dance leader, and teacher. She started training in Yiddish dance in 2019 under Yiddish Dance Master Steve Weintraub and has since led dance for synagogues and bands, and taught workshops at Klezmer festivals and in communi
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Elastic Lineage
by Miryam Coppersmith
From the burst-into-the-crowd pre-show to the buffet and talkback following the applause (just enough time for the performers to grab a chair), Artist-in-Residence Sanchel Brown’s Home to Homeland was all about making us feel at home, now, in the halls and studios of Urban Movement Arts. As the dancers said: “We’ll take care of you, and you take care of each other.”
The show begins without announcement; performers Brown, Ama Gora, and L. Graciella Maiolatesi appear in the crowded lobby. They sing, “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing” in tight harmony, moving in a tight circle, their feet and hands providing rhythm. I have a moment of reviewer’s dilemma, caught several feet away from my trusty notebook, but decide to roll with it, catching the curve or flick of an arm or leg above the heads of the crowd. The jazz age vibe circles into Brown spitting a rapid-fire rhyme, reminding us that these
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Honestly Sincere
by Miryam Coppersmith
Sincerity is personal. No one knows this better than Mark, Rachel, Ben, Makoto, Mel, and Aram of Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, who have committed to performing their own ritual of sincerity every two years until 2038, creating and re-creating The Sincerity Project, playing themselves, and using their lives as material. My first Sincerity Project was #2, back in 2016 (#1 premiered in 2014). It was a mere ten days after I moved to Philadelphia. I had never seen performers talk to the audience that authentically while also performing physical theater with intense presence. I called my mom to tell her that I would be back for the next iteration, no matter where I was living. I volunteered for the show, so I got to don the postman’s cap (absent in #3) to encourage audience members to write letters to themselves, which Team Sunshine would save and bring to the next performance two years later.
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