The Filmmaker
was produced, directed and written by Karen Goodman, a critically acclaimed modern dancer and choreographer, recipient of honors including a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship in 1990 and the 1998 Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Individual Performance, as well as grants from Los Angeles Country and City and the State of California.

    "...makes us see the art as a way back to the sense of physical and spiritual unity missing in our culture."
    Los Angeles Times, 1992


She presented the video at the 16th Annual World Congress on Dance Research, titled Dance As Intangible Heritage, organized by the International Dance Council-UNESCO, Corfu, Greece, October, 2002. She has taught the dances at Yiddish intensives in Los Angeles and Boulder, CO.


Also see www.geocities.com/goodmandance



We have almost lost the dances of the shtelts.
Why should we try to keep them?
They are of another world--harsh, confined,
precarious.
One whose very difficulties created a culture
teeming with imagination,
delicacy, absurdity and soulfulness.
An expression of a people and the human condition.
Who’d want to lose that?

from "Come Let Us Dance"



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