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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3 weeks 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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1 month ago |
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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1 month ago |
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.
Jewish Joy in the House: Northeast Hillels A Cappella Competition Gives Students a - Musical - Voice
1 month ago |
jewishtimes.com | Lisa Traiger
When Jewish college students from six campuses throughout the Northeast United States came together this past weekend on University of Maryland’s College Park campus, they filled their day and evening with song. The gathering of nearly 70 students from Tufts, Harvard, Brandeis, Yale and Maryland universities, along with professional singers from Queens College in New York, was part of a new initiative from Hillel International, which serves Jewish students on 850 campuses around the world.
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1 month ago |
hillel.org | Lisa Traiger
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in the Washington Jewish Week on March 5, 2025, under the title “Jewish Joy in the House: Northeast Hillels A Cappella Competition Gives Students a — Musical — Voice.”When Jewish college students from six campuses throughout the Northeast United States came together this past weekend on University of Maryland’s College Park campus, they filled their day and evening with song.
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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