“performance”
Blog
On Not Understanding: Performing Yiddish Song Today
Benjy Fox-Rosen
As a composer and performer of Yiddish music, Rosen confronts the fact that most members of my audience do not understand the language of the texts he performs. Yet, while music does not communicate information in the same way as language, it can lead listeners towards specific associations and meanings. There are multiple instances in which translation, imagined or guided, takes place during a musical performance and the composer and performer mediates these processes.
Dec 16, 2019
Interview
Between Translation and Tradaptation: An Interview with Daniel Kahn, Berlin, January 2017
Marianne Windsperger
Interview
Spectacular Vernacular: An Interview with Ezra Berkley Nepon on New Yiddish Theater, Queer Performance Arts, and “Dazzle Camouflage”
Anna Elena Torres
Pedagogy
Teaching Yiddish Through Performance
Hannah Pollin-Galay
After-school enrichment classes for children can be deadly to teach. Creative performance is one way to keep students engaged and learning.
Aug 13, 2015