By, 2021 LABA Fellow Annie Berman Our current Zeitgeist is filled with dreams of renewal, reawakening, return – a return to a better world. Is that even possible? Are human beings capable of creating a world anew, or can we only work towards reforming, healing. Are there limits to human imagination? I write this as
by, Ronit Muszkatblit, Director of Arts & Culture, Artistic Director of LABA These days, when I watch a movie, or a video of a dance or theater piece, the first thing that strikes me is that I am watching a world from the past: the people are in crowded rooms together, they are hugging, touching
LABA Fellow Anna Lublina takes a thorough look at the intersection between humor and the theatrical. When Sarah laughs at the Lord in Genesis, whose power is stronger? Is God wielding power as he tells Sarah that she will become pregnant in her 90s? Or does Sarah assert her power as she laughs, publicly expressing
Current LABA Fellow Sarah Sigal offers a fascinating and very personal look into the role of American Jewry in Prohibition. January 2020 marks the 100-year anniversary of the activation of the Volstead Act, which kicked the 18th Amendment into gear, banning alcohol in the United States until 1933. The Progressive movement of the day thought
Current LABA fellow Jared Hoffman discusses which club he’d want to be a member of. This summer, I heard a phrase come out of my mouth that gave me pause. I was eating lasagna at a restaurant called Elegante (it was not particularly elegant) on the Rockaways with my friend Jen and her daughter. Somehow
Experience, study, dance, laugh and cry with LABA fellows, alum and collaborators while we spin LABA style at INTO THE NIGHT, downtown’s contemporary Tikkun Leil Shavuot. Check out the LABA offerings below and don’t miss the full program here. What is TIKKUN INTO THE NIGHT? Tikkun Leil Shavuot presented by Downtown Jewish Life. Experience an evening
Do you have your tickets for LABAlive? Be pulled into the creative minds of our LABA Fellows as they present their work that embodies the theme OTHER. From opera to film to multimedia to visual art, Keren Moscovitch, Michael Gac Levin and Gil Sperling challenge, muse and manifest the theme as they share new works-in-progress.
For the past three years, Brooklyn playwright, dancer, choreographer and actor Yehuda Hyman has been developing The Mar Vista, a five-part narrative of his Jewish working-class family’s saga. The piece, generated as a collaboration with the Mystical Feet Company (Ezra Lowrey, Ron Kagan, Amanda Schussel, Ryan Pater, Dwight Richardson Kelly), has been running since December
BY JESSICA GROSS Beauty, beauty everywhere. The latest quotes, for your reading pleasure: “When images of physical beauty serve to diminish the depth of a woman’s personhood, we should reject them. And when they seem to restore an appreciation of that which has been devalued, or to be attached to an open sense of expressiveness,
“There is wine and there is wine, so also there is a cup and there is a cup, and all is, this for good and this for evil.” Zohar II:246b SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 7:30 PM You’ve seen wine paired with food, but how about wine paired with texts? Join LABA fellows, ancient text scholars and a sommelier