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Fernando Davidovitsch

Fernando Davidovitsch is a professor of dance at the Federal University of Sergipe in Brazil and is working on a PhD in Performing Arts at the University of Sao Paulo. He researches the relationship between tradition and contemporaneity in Israeli dance.

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A group of six women, barefoot, wearing long white tunics, and holding up clay pots as they dance onstage

Jewish Women and Israeli Dance in Brazil

In various parts of Brazil, women have taken on important roles for the Israeli dance establishment as a sociocultural practice within their Jewish communities. The text presents the names of some pioneer women in this process and other ones that have been preserving this traditional Jewish expression of dance for years.