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| NY Klezmer Series & CTMD present: Tantshoyz (Dance Party) w/Avia Moore, Alex Kontorovich!! The New York Klezmer Series Proudly Presents NY Klezmer Series & CTMD present: Tantshoyz (Dance Party) w/Avia Moore, Alex Kontorovich!! Nov. 4, 2014 at 7:30pm, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, 30 W. 68th St. NY NY 10023. Avia Moore has led dance several times at the NY Klezmer Series and is a wonderful and vibrant dance artist and teacher. Joyfully teaching and leading Yiddish dance at festivals and events internationally, Avia instills her workshops with a sense of tradition while exploring contemporary approaches to the style. An active part of the international Jewish artistic community, has also worked with Jewish festivals and cultural organizations around the world, including KlezKanada, The International Klezmer Festival in Fürth, The Ashkenaz Festival, Yiddish Summer Weimar, and The Jewish Community in St. Petersburg, Russia. Growing up in the folk arts scene of British Columbia, Canada, Avia completed her BA Honours in Drama at the University of Alberta, and her MA in Devised Theatre at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, England. She is the Creative Producer of the Kootenay Storytelling Festival. www.aviamoore.com Alex Kontorovich is one of the top klezmer clarinetists in the world, although his day job (as professor of mathematics at Rutgers) allows him to choose only the gigs he really wants to do in his music work. As co-founder of the popular band, The Klez Dispensers, he has also recorded and produced two CDs of the music of German Goldenshteyn (one of which is the only CD Goldenshteyn ever recorded), and a CD of his original music entitled "Deep Minor." Kontorovich has performed and recorded all over the world with such artists at The Klezmatics, Beyond the Pale, Fyvush Finkel, King Django, Boban Markovic', Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Aaron Alexander's Midrash Mish Mosh, and many others. He was on staff for years at Living Traditions "Klez Kamp", at Klez Kanada, and at Yiddish Summer Weimar. write your comments about the article :: © 2014 Jazz News :: home page |