BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//Refresh Web Development//Helios Calendar//EN X-FROM-URL:http://alibi.com/events/37223/11th-Annual-Klezmerquerque.html?co m=details X-WR-RELCALID:Alibi Calendar 11th Annual Klezmerquerque 20130215T183000 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver X-WR-CALNAME:Alibi Calendar BEGIN:VEVENT URL;VALUE="URI":http://alibi.com/events/37223/11th-Annual-Klezmerquerque.ht ml DTSTART:20130215T183000 DTEND:20130215T183000 SUMMARY:11th Annual Klezmerquerque DESCRIPTION:Music and dance festival includes concerts\, workshops and danc e parties featuring &lsquo\;Klezmer\,&rsquo\; the traditional dance and in strumental music of the Eastern European Jewish people.KlezmerQuerque is p roduced by Congregation Nahalat Shalom\, its 20-piece intergenerational Co mmunity Klezmer Band and Rikud Yiddish dance troupe. KlezmerQuerque presen ts a wide variety of events for all ages and abilities with prices ranging from free to $15-$20 per event.KlezmerQuerque begins on Friday\, February 15th at 6:30pm\, with &lsquo\;Der Freylekher Shabbos&rsquo\; featuring gu est artists and also local klezmer favorites The Rebbe&rsquo\;s Orkestra\, The Nahalat Shalom Community Klezmer Band\, and Rikud dance troupe. A fre e joyous &lsquo\;Shabbos Koydesh&rsquo\; service is on Saturday\, February 16th from 10am-noon with Nahalat Shalom&rsquo\;s Rabbi Deborah Brin\, and the concert and dance party begins at 7:00pm (doors at 6:30pm) with local Klezmer band &lsquo\;The Rebbe&rsquo\;s Orkestra&rsquo\; as the opening a ct for the Hoffman-Watts/Watts duo [Tickets available in advance ONLY at B ookworks\, 4022 Rio Grande NW\, ABQ (505) 344-8139]. There will be three 9 0 minute long MUSIC & DANCE WORKSHOPS with the Hoffman-Watss/Watts duo and dancer Bruce Bierman on Sunday\, February 17th.KlezmerQuerque 2013 featur es dancer & choreographer Bruce Bierman and Philadelphia&rsquo\;s renown a ward-winning mother & daughter klezmer dynasty duo: Elaine Hoffman-Watts: drums & percussion and Susan Watts: trumpet & voice. Highlights of the fes tival include a cameo concert-performance by the duo as part of Der Freyle kher Shabbes on Friday evening February 15 and a full concert and dance pa rty on Saturday evening\, February 16. Yiddish dance master Bruce Bierman will lead the dancing at both evening events. On Sunday\, February 17 betw een 10:00am and 5:30pm there will be three 90 min. hands-on workshops taug ht by the guest artists in instrumental music and dance. Bruce will teach 3 unique Jewish dance classes: #1- Sacred Ecstatic Jewish Dance\, #2- Bawd y and Profane Jewish Dance (aka &ldquo\;Yemenite hip-hop&rdquo\;)\, and #3 - Yiddish Tango. Bruce Bierman\, an award winning actor/director/playwrigh t and choreographer who lives and works in Los Angeles\, never suspected t hat Yiddish dance would play a big part in his life. Upon hearing an album by &lsquo\;The Klezmorim&rsquo\; during his college years in the 1980&rsq uo\;s\, he became wholly inspired and soon adapted\, directed and choreogr aphed a klezmer musical based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Gimpel the Fool' for his senior thesis. After graduating with a degree in Theater Arts\, h e toured the country with the acclaimed Aman Folk Ensemble of Los Angeles performing and teaching traditional dances from around the globe. Bruce Bi erman is a leading presenter of Yiddish dance for major festivals\, perfor mances and conferences including the prestigious Berkeley Jewish Music Fes tival and the Jewish Contemporary Museum of San Francisco.Elaine Hoffman W atts and Susan Watts are descendants of Philadelphia&rsquo\;s prominent Ho ffman family musical dynasty. Beginning with Susan&rsquo\;s great-grandfat her\, musician\, composer\, cornet-player\, and poet\, Joseph Hoffman\, th is important klezmer dynasty reaches back to the Jewish Ukraine of the 19t h century. Third and fourth generation klezmorim (musicians) Elaine and Su san are internationally celebrated for their musical skill\, ingenuity and cultural knowledge. Elaine is a musical national treasure. Born in 1932\, Elaine Hoffman Watts is a winner of the prestigious 2007 National Heritag e Award from the National Endowment of the Arts. She is one of only eight artists from Pennsylvania\, and one of only six Jewish artists from the en tire country\, to be so honored over the last 28 years. Elaine is also the recipient of the Leeway Transformation Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She was the first woman percussionist to be accepted at Curtis Insti tute\, from which she graduated in 1954. Hoffman-Watts has performed and t aught drums\, timpani\, and mallet instruments for more than forty years\, working in symphonies\, theaters\, and schools. In addition to performing with a variety of noted Klezmer musicians from around the world\, trumpet er & vocalist Susan Watts has shared the stage with Mandy Patinkin at Carn egie Hall\, Dudu Fischer\, Theodore Bikel\, Claire Barry\, Boban Markovic\ , So-Called\, Alicia Svigals\, Margot Leverett\, Henkus Netsky\, The Klezm er Conervatory Band\, among others. Susan is a member of The Fabulous Shpi elkes\, Frank London&rsquo\;s Klezmer Brass All-Stars\, Mikveh\, and The K lez Dispensers. Recently\, she scored and recorded the soundtrack for the award winning film &lsquo\;Breath&rsquo\;\, and she recorded the soundtrac k for a documentary on Philadelphia klezmer &lsquo\;A Joyful Noise.&rsquo\ ; Susan teaches at klezmer festivals\, is an ambassador for womens&rsquo\; rights around the world and loves good coffee\, fine vodka\, singing and playing her trumpet.Elaine & Susan will teach klezmer tunes from their kle zmer-dynasty family's repertoire and Bruce will teach 3 unique dance class es. At 10am Bruce teaches 'Sacred Ecstatic Jewish Dance' -- From the momen t Miriam took out her timbrel and began to dance after the Hebrews crossed the Red Sea\, dance has played a continuous vital role in Jewish ritual l ife. According to folkologists\, Yemenite and Hasidic dance are the origin al source of all other Jewish dance to follow. This workshop will explore the fascinating gestural language\, movements and styling of these two ecs tatic dance forms and the percussive rhythms and nigns (wordless melodies) that accompany them. The workshop will begin with stretches and poses ins pired by the Hebrew letters. At 2:15pm he'll teach 'Bawdy and Profane Jewi sh Dance.' Participants in this workshop will experience on their feet how the more sacred Yemenite and Hasidic dance influenced their future secula r offsprings: Klezmer and Israeli folk dance. Then\, take a listen and bus t a move as Yemenite and Hasidic dance enter the 21st century and meet hip hop\, rap\, swing and the mambo! The workshop will begin with stretches a nd poses inspired by the Hebrew letters. And at 4:00pm Bruce leads YIDDISH TANGO. Inspired by the body of Yiddish tango music that came out of the J ewish theater and cabarets of the Twenties and early Thirties\, this works hop explores the meeting place between the more communal Yiddish circle da nce and the intimate embrace of the Argentine tango. Please wear comfortab le clothes and shoes to dance in for all of the dance workshops. On Sunday there will also be a &lsquo\;Lunch &lsquo\;n Learn&rsquo\; with the docum entaries: &ldquo\;Eatela: A Life in Klezmer&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;Good Night Mishegas&rdquo\; featuring Elaine (Eatela) Hoffman Watts & Susan Watts. E njoy a delicious &lsquo\;milkhik&rsquo\; (dairy\, fish\, veggies\, no meat ) lunch\, followed by the films\, which will be followed by a brief questi on & answer period with Elaine & Susan. Reservation deadline for the Lunch &lsquo\;n Learn is February 8th.For festival details contact: Beth Cohen\ , KlezmerQuerque Ko-ordinator (505) 243-6276\, \; \; cohenedmunds@ netzero.net www.nahalatshalom.org Klick on &ldquo\;Klezmer music/dance&rdq uo\; & &ldquo\;KlezmerQuerque&rdquo\;--and find KlezmerQuerque on facebook . All events take place at Congregation Nahalat Shalom\, 3606 Rio Grande B lvd. NW (between Candelaria & Griegos) in Albuquerque\, New Mexico. Congre gation Nahalat Shalom is a non-profit and tax-exempt organization: \;w ww.nahalatshalom.org\, \;office:(505) 343-8227. 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