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Source: http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=ingber20040414933
In Israel, Still Dancing After All These Years
(Forward) Judith Brin Ingber - Today, folk dance in Israel is a regular part of life. You can find it in schools as part of the curriculum, in the town squares, on the beach with public amplifiers blaring out the music, in gymnasiums, at youth-movement gatherings, in the army, and in hotel lobbies. It doesn't look like the hora anymore, either. The rhythms accompanying modern Israeli folk dancing are a polyglot of global sound, reaching beyond the ingathering of Jewish communities: techno, pop, salsa tunes, Greek, and Mizrahi - an Oriental fusion of Sephardic and Arabic rocking with an Israeli pulse.