Living Secretly was an intriguing multi-cultural performance based on a play by Jan Fosse, one of the world’s foremost living playwrights, directed by Franzisca Aarflot, with music by Johan Sara, a composer from Lapland, and performed by the Russian dancer Nikolay Shchetnev.  As part of the “Yidish far ale” project, the performance featured voice-over in…

Klezmer far ale – Klezmer for Everyone Master classes with Helmut Eisel and klezmer improvisations inspired by the works of Edward Grieg and Frederic Chopin. Klezmer music is at the very heart of Yiddish culture.  Helmut Eisel, the great clarinetist who has been blending klezmer and classical music and jazz since the early 1990’s, conducted…