Nefesh is a performance project emerging from my exploration of Ashkenazi singing, rabbinic prayer, embodied spiritual practice and diasporic politics.

After years of researching and deconstructing the Israeli folk dances I danced with my mother, this work reaches back to my great-grandparents, lingering in the details of shuckling, krechtsing, unmetered singing and chanting that made distinct their eastern European Jewish soundscape.

Nefesh foregrounds the labor, sensuality, and life-giving nourishment of sacred service, and the wisdom of the body, our wandering - navenaden - altar.

Thank you to Ruach community health for hosting our showing! 

This project is supported by a grant from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies Arts & Culture Community Impact Grant Fund. This presentation of Nefesh at Hebrew College received support from The Mass Cultural Council Festivals & Projects Grant