KLEZMER JAM & YIDDISH DANCE!

📢 🎶 Grab your instrument or dancing shoes, and JOIN US for Rad Yiddish & Marching Disorder's inaugural KLEZMER JAM & YIDDISH DANCE!
📅 Saturday, May 30 @ 2:00-4:30PM
📍TacoTaco (Kensington Market) - 319 Augusta Ave., Toronto
👉Register at bit.ly/KJYDmay30 or the LINK in our IG BIO !
🎫Suggested $25 or pay-what-you-can
Feel free to come early to grab a drink & some lunch tacos**
2:15PM - Set up your instruments
2:30PM - Learn a new klezmer tune from Martin
2:45-4:30PM - Jamming & Dancing
**tell them you're with the Klezmer Jam! (Anyone who buys food/drinks helps bring down our venue rental costs)

MUSICIANS:

Grab your instrument and join us at Taco, Taco for Rad Yiddish & Marching Disorder's inaugural Klezmer Jam & Yiddish Dance!
--We'll start with Martin teaching a tune, then play through the rest of the tunes on the set list for the rest of the jam (with a midway break), starting with easier tunes
--Every month we'll share the ahead of time.
--We'll play through all or some of these tunes, and change up the order depending on jam attendee requests
--Some printed copies of the charts will be available at the jam; bring your own stand if you want to look at sheet music.

DANCERS / AUDIENCE:
Not a musician? Emily Glass will lead Yiddish dance. NO experience necessary!
--Come learn the dance steps that go with klezmer music! Yiddish dance is a social folk dance danced in circles, squares, and lines.
--Emily will lead us in various dances such as freylekhs, zhoks, bulgars, and turkishers.
--Yiddish dance can be modified for those using mobility devices or need to dance seated, by learning the arm movements.

ACCESS
--Taco, Taco is on the ground floor, step-free.
--2 large single-stall gender-neutral washrooms.
--Masks are encouraged whenever possible. (Other patrons of the venue will be present and likely unmasked as our event if not a private booking.)

Please let us know in your registration if you have any access needs you'd like us to address.

WORKSHOP LEADER BIOS

Emily Glass (she/her) is a professional language teacher and community dancer who grew up near Vancouver. Since falling in love with Yiddish at her first beginner class at the University of Ottawa in 2015, she has been active in the Yiddish cultural world, participating in the Steiner Summer Program at the Yiddish Book Centre, KlezKanada, Yiddish Summer Paris, and Yiddish New York.
In 2024, Emily took a break from teaching high school to do a masters in Yiddish Studies at the University of Toronto. During her graduate studies, and under the mentorship of KlezKanada's Avia Moore, she researched how Ashkenazi ways of being have been expressed in dance cultures. Subsequently, she has led Yiddish dance workshops and events in Toronto and Vancouver.

A mainstay of the Canadian klezmer scene, Martin van de Ven (he/him) performs with Canada’s hottest klezmer band, Beyond the Pale. A unique stylist, he brings fire, elegance, and humour to his performances with the award-winning group. He has composed, arranged, and directed performances for Toronto production companies including Jumblies Theatre, Theatre Columbus, Queen of Pudding Theatre, and the Ashkenaz Foundation.
Over the past decade, he has written a number of choral works in collaboration with Jumblies Theatre director Ruth Howard. He has also collaborated as composer and arranger with Beth Anne Cole on her recent album, Perhaps the Gods of Love. Martin recently retired from his work as a music teacher with the Toronto District School Board and is now an active freelance musician.

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