Yiddish Klezmer Dancing: Sher

Helene Domergue-Zylberberg of Nimes, France, is a wonderful teacer of klezmer dance and a native speaker of Yiddish. Here she leads her dance workshop group in a Sher on board the Dnieper Princess River boat during the Klezmer Heritage Cruise of the Ukraine, organized by Josh Dolgin (DJ Socalled) and family in May 2007. Most of the dancers are of the generation that was raised in Yiddish and were already familiar with the dance aesthetics such as body posture and movements for Yiddish dance (notice - nobody is actually jumping...) A cracking band led by Alex Kontorovich leads the dance.

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• klezmer
• dance
• sher
• yiddish
• music
• ukraine
• dolgin
• socalled
• heritage
• cruise
• helene
• domergue
• jewish
• folk

[nilinu]

Oy vey! Ladies, what are you on??

[lesbrody1]

Russian Sher #3 from the Kammen Folio starts at abiyt :40

[olyvoda]

soem romanian steps there , too!

[ewaldmads101]

Χορός με το διάβολο!

[cl7player]

Nice square!

[jerrywrite]

there is a Russian Two Step in there, too.

[mones6]

LO CORTASTE EN EL MEJOR MOMENTO ! =)

[Hageulah]

It doesn' t matter from where the Roots are coming to this kind of Dances - Hora, Freylakhs, Klezmer-Dance, Israeli Dance - it's only important, that the Dancers will have fun while dancing together in a merry circle and enoying the music! Mirjam - Hageulah

[LarryGastropoleau]

There are plenty of different klezmer dances, including the freylakhs (similar to an Israeli hora), the sher (a square dance), and the klezmer hora (a slow dance in 3/8 time). Some are done in circles, some in squares, and some individually or in pairs.

Your Hava Nagila video is an Israeli tune and dance, which has some things in common with klezmer, but definitely is a style of dance distinct from Eastern European klezmer dancing.

[bigbob59gb]

The one main distinctive difference is the Middle Eastern, Greco-Turkish and Gypsy influences on Eastern Europe and Klezmer music.