Portrait of Sophia Goyhman

cardboard, gouache , 50 x 70 cms

2022 , Saint-Petersburg

22 Adar - The Jews of Hollywood - 1927

On this day in 1927, The Fox Film Corporation gave its first demonstration of the process that it would use for a new feature, Movietone News, that would allow filmgoers to see and hear scenes from recent events. Fifty reporters were escorted into Fox-Case's New York studios at 10:00 that morning and filmed. Four hours later, the same group saw and heard themselves when the film of the press conference was screened.

Fox Film Corporation was founded by William Fox. Born Wilheim Fuchs along with the founders of MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal, and Colombia Picture he was part of a small group of top-level Jewish-born entrepreneurs who fashioned Hollywood. Besides their professions, they practically all fit the same profile: 2nd generation Americans from observant Eastern European Jewish homes all abandoning the traditions of their youth.

It was not a coincidence that the first talking movie out of Hollywood was the Jazz Singer, produced by Warner Bros. The movie is the story of the son of a Jewish cantor, played by Al Jolson, whose father kicks him out of the house because he wants to become a jazz singer. In the process, he falls in love with a non-Jewish woman. The “happy ending” is when he returns home to chant the Kol Nidrei service with his mother and gentile girlfriend watching admirably, and subsequently, his mother comes to watch him perform on Broadway. The movie was quite auto-biographical for Jolson and the group of Jewish filmmakers. The movie was later remade twice. Once starring Jerry Lewis and once Neil Diamond. Again, quite an autobiographical role.

Rabbi Pinchas L. Landis

"Thank you HaShem for all the wonderful people I’ve met and the diverse roads you’ve made me walk that lead me to this very moment" . . . . . #thankhashem #jewishlife #jewishgirl #israeli #jewish #judaica #thankyou #merci #jewishStar #jewishpeople #love #instagood #judaica #jewishholidays #AmYisraelChai #israeloftheday #Israelites #israel #jerusalem #hashem #hebrew #shalom #jews #starofdavid #judaism #god #thanksgod #religion #jewishwomen (at Jerusalem-ירושלים) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpeJ-pkN3yr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fall 2023

October 5-7 Texas Dance and Improvisation Festival at Texas Women's University-Teacher

Rhythm, Texture, Flow This workshop will explore a layered set of questions that dive deep into swimming with rhythmic patterning, the textures of memory, and finding flows. We will ask questions about moving deeply into nuances occurring at the same time and then also of rupture and slippage. The material will begin with guided work that delves into meditative spaces and then moves into more structural groundedness-Participants will find space to “flow” with each other and separately into accumulations that connect rhythm, texture and flow. Teaching 6th and 7th.

Work on book projects-Movement Research

-selection of the screen dance Cycles of Growth for the Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions, screening September 18th-2nd of October,UK.

-semi-finalist Cycles of Growth for International Moving Film Festival, Iran Nov 21st.

-2+U Shunpike time based artist in residence. Movement research for solo work about Jewish Girls and the moons, current title La Lune.

photo of celia bambara at the silveroom during their block party in a site-adaptive work 2010, Chicago.

❤️ - Milana Vino #MilanaVino #israeligirls #jewishgirls #girlsfromisrael #hotgirls #fitspo #influencers

Lag BaOmer is celebrated yesterday / today. But where does it get its name?

Read and swipe for a quick lesson on the wonders of the Jewish Calendar, Gematria, and some Hebrew letters.

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G’mar Chatima Tova + Repost from @jewishtogether • Wishing you a meaningful Yom Kippur. May we all be inscribed in the book of life✨ + #yomkippur #gmarchatimatova #jewishnewyear #highholidays #jewishtogether #jewish #jewishholiday #jewishcommunity #jewishfamily #jewishhome #jewishheritage #jewishlife #jewishholidays #jewishwomen #jewishculture #jewishgirl #jewishandproud #jewishpride #jewishmom (at Broward College South Campus) https://www.instagram.com/p/CT6iefbrDrw/?utm_medium=tumblr

Shabbat is my favorite part of the week. 🥰 It's my "quiet place" We all disconnect from our devices and spend the day enjoying each other as a family while learning Judaism.

For local candle lighting times: chabad.org/candles

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Задай вопрос сыроеду. Что бы вы хотели узнать о сыроедение? Задавайте ваши вопросы⤵️ #berlin #blueeyes #gutenmorgen #likeforlikes #veganindeutschland #portraitphotography #family #health #instagood #plantbased #vegan #motivation #fitfood #mma #feelgood #lifestyle #vegangirl #fitnessbikini #jewishgirl #kosher #lgbt #ballett #veganmakeup #jewishbeauty #sport #fitness #lifestyle #withoutfilter #mma #веган #detox (hier: Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_4mrTCqawS/?igshid=cerhiim7p9pa

"I am especially thankful to HaShem for my family . They are my greatest blessing!" . . . . . #thankhashem #jewishlife #jewishgirl #israeli #jewish #judaica #thankyou #merci #jewishStar #jewishpeople #love #instagood #judaica #jewishholidays #AmYisraelChai #israeloftheday #Israelites #israel #jerusalem #hashem #hebrew #shalom #jews #starofdavid #judaism #god #thanksgod #religion #jewishwomen (at Jerusalem, Israel) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8EqP2rliD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Happy Passover, next year in Jerusalem

Spring/Summer 2023

-Lacina Coulibaly Residency at CCA in partnership with the CCBdance Project April dates- 12th -15th

 Master Class-April 13th in Improvisation at Cornish College of the ArtsOpen to all in the program 1:35-2-55 pm during Somatics, Improvisation, and Healing practice led course at Cornish College of the Arts. 

-April 14th 7-8 pm at Art Wall at Cornish College Of the Arts with Celia, Lacina and students site-adaptive scores  -May 3rd at 4pm  at Kerry Hall at Cornish College of the Arts will be shown in the afternoon after showings-site adaptive.This will be with Celia and students.

-April 13th Guest Lecture at Yale- Dr. Celia Weiss Bambara will lecture on improvisation and Africanisms in Haiti and the Diaspora. 

-BASE Experimental Residency for CCBdance Project May 29th -June 4th

Thursday 1st June evening showing 6 pm 

Master Class with  Lacina Coulibaly at the MCC May 30th 3-5 pm

This showing will include three screen dances and movement research for a solo and trio project. Residency activities at Cornish College of the Arts and Base Experimental are partially supported by 2022-23 Faculty Development Grant and are in partnership with the Dance Program at Cornish College of the Arts and the CCBdance Project.