Lisa Traiger
Arts Correspondent at Washington Jewish Week
Editor, From the Green Room at Freelance
Dance Writer at Dance Magazine
Award-winning arts journalist Lisa Traiger is a writer, editor, educator, dance lover, student of life
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1 month ago |
washingtonjewishweek.com | Lisa Traiger
This spring the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum is uncovering the ignored, forgotten or consciously shunned stories of LGBTQ+ Jews.
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1 month ago |
montgomerymag.com | Lisa Traiger
“Blues is the first form of American music,” declared Daryl Davis, renowned blues pianist. “And when I say American music, I’m talking about music that was created right here in this country.”Blues, he continued, is not European, nor African, but a combination of influences from both continents that came together in the mixing bowl of the United States.
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2 months ago |
washingtonjewishweek.com | Lisa Traiger
When programming the forthcoming DC Jewish Film and Music Festival at the Edlavitch DCJCC, Yael Luttwak, JxJ artistic director, found inspiration and validation from a teaching by the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. It’s been an undeniably challenging time for Jewish people. “It is commanded even in darker times that Jews are supposed to experience joy,” Luttwak said at JxJ’s preview event on March 25.
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Mar 26, 2025 |
montgomerymag.com | Lisa Traiger
The Kuchipudi classical Indian dance form is filled with gestural flourishes and flat-footed rhythmic components that serve as the driving force in this elegant storytelling dance drama. Silver Spring resident Nilimma Devi has been a master teacher and practitioner of Kuchipudi for more than six decades. Yet, when she dances or choreographs, her works are not museum pieces for preserving a 1,000-year-old dance.
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Mar 18, 2025 |
dctheaterarts.org | Lisa Traiger
]The DMV has been fortunate to have the one-of-a-kind movement-theater company Synetic Theater in its midst for nearly a quarter of a century. Founded by Georgian émigrés Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili in 2001, the then-young troupe of creatives drew from their Georgian and Russian-style training in dance, mime, theater, and film to forge their new American theatrical identity.
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I spent time at Sutradhar Institute of Dance in Silver Spring speaking with Kuchipudi master teacher Nilimma Devi, her daughter choreographer/dancer Anila Kumari about "Yogini." The company performs in May '25 @ Silver Spring Black Box: https://t.co/iRYOi8iYAY
My latest in @WJWeek looks at the upcoming @JxJJewishFilmxMusicFestival @E_DCJCC: https://t.co/sHOBwT5lEA
See this Instagram post by @dctheaterarts https://t.co/OmWhdp9ZyG