This two-day workshop on the 13th and 14th of June puts kids at the centre. We will dance, play, tell stories, and create together while exploring a bit of the world of Yiddish culture. No experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to join in.
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The group will have its own space during the festival to move, invent, and spend time together. Small group, lots of movement, music, and imagination. Parents are welcome to enjoy the rest of the festival while the children are in the workshop.
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At certain moments we will join the wider festival including a communal brunch and jam session, and later for some dancing where the kids are right in the middle of it all.
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The workshop is led by interdisciplinary artists Eyal Davidovitch and Yeva Lapsker, who both bring many years of experience both in and outside of the Yiddish community. The workshop will move naturally between English, German, Russian, and a little bit of Yiddish.
Our Faculty
Yeva Lapsker
an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, performer, and translator, born in Leningrad and currently residing on the waters of Hamburg. Her work seamlessly blends Yiddish dance, Argentinian tango, theater, and music, creating a tapestry of embodied memory and cross-cultural dialogue. As a co-founder of Shtetl Berlin e. V., she has shared her practice at festivals and stages worldwide. Notably, she has performed as a dancer and choreographer for the Netflix series Unorthodox. Her diverse projects include the solo Performing Denkmal, the collaborative Di Goldene Argentine, explorations in clowning, and she naturally brings her experience as a mother to her work with children.
Yeva Lapsker
is a multidisciplinary artist working across film, visual art, graphic design, podcasting, prose, and music. Since a young age, he has been involved in educational and cultural projects, especially with children and teenagers. Over the past seven years, he has been active in the Yiddish cultural world, teaching and contributing as part of the leading teams at Yiddish Summer Weimar, The Other Music Academy, KlezKanada, and Paideia. He is currently creating and dreaming in Berlin.