Beta Dance Troupe (beta is an Amharic word meaning house) presents a unique program of traditional Ethiopian Jewish dance (mainly “eskesta” – shoulder dancing – an Ethiopian traditional dance) and ...

The first time Dr. Ruth Eshel witnessed esketa (which means shoulder dance, in Amharic), she was astounded. “I knew immediately that this was something new and different, something I had never seen ...

On October 14 at the Osher Marin JCC in San Rafael, California, at a performance for 400 middle school students from six different Bay Area Jewish day schools, the members of the Beta Dance Troupe ...

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Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians celebrated the annual Irreecha seasonal festival Saturday amid ongoing conflict in parts of the country. Irreecha, the ‘thanksgiving festival,’ is celebrated by the ...

NORTHAMPTON – It was a rainy Wednesday night. And although outside the heavens were screaming in sadness, it was surely due to the fact that the five men and five women dancers of the Eskesta dance ...

Chanting and clapping as they dance to the haunting rhythm of drums, the inhabitants of Harar, a fortified Ethiopian city seemingly frozen in time, celebrate the festival of Shuwalid, keeping ...

This year’s festival takes place on September 9-11 at the host venue, The Mazkeka in downtown Jerusalem, and The Yellow Submarine and the Shalem Dance Center in Talpiyot. Almost anyone who has made ...

Watch the mesmerizing multidiscipline performance of “Lesanu” from Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show. Released in May, Washington called the 12-track Fearless Movement his “dance album,” though ...