![]() He has all the traditional dances and more at his fingertips and toes, and he carefully distills movements to indicate personalities or characters from Jewish literature, folk songs and poetry or feelings from holidays and rituals. The name might be newly coined, but Fibich is an old hand at it. ![]() ![]() “Yiddish dance” is a term that has emerged for dance from the shtetls, cities and countryside of Eastern Europe before the Nazi period. Fibich is still in disbelief over his own upcoming schedule: From December 23 to 29, he will give daily dance workshops for six days in a row as one of the master artists presented at KlezKamp, the 19th Annual Yiddish Folk Arts Program at the Swan Lake Hotel in New York’s Catskill Mountains. ‘At my age this shouldn’t be happening,” acknowledged Felix Fibich, the 86-year-old Yiddish dance star.
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