JCC Dancers heading off to Israel

GRACE CASKEY JCC Dance Training Company Member

Several members of the JCC’s dance Training Company, including myself, have the extraordinary opportunity to travel to Israel and participate in a summer program hosted by a leading modern dance company and to get to know our Omaha partnership area.

This will be the second time Esther Katz, JCC Performing Arts Director, will take a group of JCC Dancers to the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s summer intensive (KCDC), the first of which was in the summer of 2019. The first group of dancers returned to Omaha eager to share about their adventures, and just how transformative the experience was for them. They continue to shower us with enthusiastic commentary about the program, despite it being four years later. Listening to the dancers’ testimonies of what positive experiences they had during their time in Israel convinced me that this was a program I wanted to attend at some point in my dance education. I first inquired about the intensive over a year ago, and made it known to our company director that I really did want to put my wish into actuality.

After many months of discussion and scheduling, the plan to send seven JCC dancers on this trip has been confirmed. Our group will head to Israel in early July, where we will stay for two weeks,