Climate change at heart of Rosh Hashanah svce.
PHOTOS BY TEQUILA MINSKY
Lab/Shul hosted this year’s Rosh
Hashanah services at the Hammerstein
Ballroom in Midtown
Manhattan
BY TEQUILA MINSKY
Lab/Shul’s High Holy Day services
are being held this year in
34th Street’s Hammerstein Ballroom.
After the artist-driven, god-optional
assembly of high holiday observers outgrew
the City Winery in its fi rst years,
services were held further downtown,
the Upper East Side and Brooklyn, as
well as streamed on-line.
Always led by a ritual team of talented
musicians, this year’s services
included an earth altar created by Lab/
Shul’s artist-in-residence Day Schildrket
and in the middle of the 34th
Street ballroom.
Climate change is a theme this year
and each observant, given a leaf on entry,
added their leaf to the earth altar.
Following services, as is the ritual,
congregants walked from 34th Street
to Pier 64 for the Tashlich shedding
ritual, throwing bread crumbs into the
moving water to represent casting away
the past.
Based on Varick Street in Hudson
Square, Lab/Shul will host Yom Kippur
services on Oct. 8-9 at the Hammerstein
Ballroom. Visit labshul.org to
reserve your seats.
Wash. Hts. dance co. gets $10K grant
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
The Daniel Gwirtzman Dance
Company, a modern dance
performing and teaching company
based in Washington Heights,
received a grant on Sept. 16 from
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund to fi -
nance Dance With Us, a digital online
resource designed to educate the
general public on dance terminology,
steps and concepts.
“A lot of times during a performance
there is a lot of head scratching,”
said Daniel Gwirtzman, about
audience members. “This is meant to
fi x that.”
In October, the dance company
will begin to fi lm practices and
performances and use the footage
to create narrated videos breaking
down dance and choreography
concepts. According to Gwirtzman,
some potential video topics include
explaining rhythm, timing, shape
and partnering.
With Dance With Us, Gwirtzman
hopes to improve dance literacy in “a
common language that is easy to digest”
and better equip people to understand
Daniel Gwirtzman performing his solo “Character” at Manhattan’s
Battery Dance Festival.
and enjoy dance.
The videos will vary in length and
will be accompanied with some text
and will be with various libraries,
schools, universities and dance institutions
as an effort to take part in the
Open Educational Resources movement,
PHOTO BY MARC DE GEORGE
where knowledge is shared
free of cost. The company will also
share shorter videos to their social
media accounts.
The videos will vary in length and
are expected to be released by fall of
next year.
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