Chana Englard

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Background

Chana Englard
Chana is an ethnomusicologist by training and works as a concert producer at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She started Balkan dancing 23 years ago and graduated from the International Folk Dance Teachers course at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1985.

Dunav related activities

Chana acts as the treasurer for Dunav. In addition to her Dunav related activities, Chana has been running Greek dancing in the Greek community together with Kostas since 1999. Two years ago she started a new group for Greek dancing on Monday nights in Tel Aviv.

She introduced Balkan dancing at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and has been teaching dancing there since 1999 for the Movement and Movement Notation Department.

Information and knowledge

Chana has spent the past few years researching and specializing in Greek dances, each year attending Greek dance seminars that specialize in dances from different regions. She's been to seminars and folklore trips in the Balkan countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, and Albania) every year since 1991.