When the Jews were sent into exile after the destruction of the second temple they scattered all over the globe. Some Jews settled in what today is known as the Middle East. These Jews assimilated over time to incorporate their neighbors traditions and customs that became part of the Oriental Jews own customs. A large part of these customs were in the form of dance. Today, dance that once became part of Oriental Jew’s culture is seen in modern Israeli culture. Specifically, one can find many examples of this in the Yemenite culture.
The modern Israeli State has used dance as part of its identity from the very beginning. The founders of the state came from all parts of the world, and from all traditions came together to form the Jewish, Israeli …show more content…
This separation in seen in modern day as Marie-Pierre Gibert discusses in her article The intricacies of Being Israeli and Yemenite. An Ethnographic Study of Yemenite "Ethnic" Dance Companies in Israel. In her article she discusses how “Physical separation between men and women is kept such as it existed in Yemen” and that is how it is brought into modern Israeli dance culture (2007, pg. 103).
In creating the characteristic of modern day Israeli dance culture there were two camps. Some parties felt that they did not want to tarnish the original dance for by changing it, and some thought that the dance should be changed. Gibert discusses this conversation and presents the final compromise of “acknowledge[ing] the presence of an audience and to attempt to please it, thus introducing some changes” to the original dances to create an individual Israeli dance culture (2007, pg. …show more content…
While one could push aside the importance of dance to Israeli culture, Gibert in fact emphasizes it. She says, “this new form of dance could be described as an ideologically planned synthesis of the different repertoires of Jewish and non-Jewish communities present at the time in Palestine/Israel.” (2007, pg. 104). A specific example of a characteristic movement brought over from Yemenite dance in the “Yemenite step”. This step, derived from Yemenite origins, in a mainstay in the Israeli dance style and brings the Yemenite culture into Israeli dance. Yemenite dance was just one example of nations represented in the National Israeli dance that was forming (Gibert, 2007, pg.
The modern Israeli State has used dance as part of its identity from the very beginning. The founders of the state came from all parts of the world, and from all traditions came together to form the Jewish, Israeli …show more content…
This separation in seen in modern day as Marie-Pierre Gibert discusses in her article The intricacies of Being Israeli and Yemenite. An Ethnographic Study of Yemenite "Ethnic" Dance Companies in Israel. In her article she discusses how “Physical separation between men and women is kept such as it existed in Yemen” and that is how it is brought into modern Israeli dance culture (2007, pg. 103).
In creating the characteristic of modern day Israeli dance culture there were two camps. Some parties felt that they did not want to tarnish the original dance for by changing it, and some thought that the dance should be changed. Gibert discusses this conversation and presents the final compromise of “acknowledge[ing] the presence of an audience and to attempt to please it, thus introducing some changes” to the original dances to create an individual Israeli dance culture (2007, pg. …show more content…
While one could push aside the importance of dance to Israeli culture, Gibert in fact emphasizes it. She says, “this new form of dance could be described as an ideologically planned synthesis of the different repertoires of Jewish and non-Jewish communities present at the time in Palestine/Israel.” (2007, pg. 104). A specific example of a characteristic movement brought over from Yemenite dance in the “Yemenite step”. This step, derived from Yemenite origins, in a mainstay in the Israeli dance style and brings the Yemenite culture into Israeli dance. Yemenite dance was just one example of nations represented in the National Israeli dance that was forming (Gibert, 2007, pg.