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Miryam Coppersmith

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Total pleasure to see SO MUCH DANCE at Philly Fringe! thINKingDANCE is bringing a ton of published reviews the next few weeks, so stay tuned as performances keep happening. Fringe, @cannonballfest, and the gorgeous @iceboxprojectspace are integral to dance in Philly and greater PA. Loved seeing each and every one of these shows. 💫💫💫💫 @thinkingdance @iceboxprojectspace @foursomeperformance @vyettetiya @ellasommer__ @fivetwodance #dance #phillyfringe #performance #fringe
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📚 FROM THE ARCHIVE 📚 Over the coming weeks we're taking a look back at past Fringe coverage as we gear up for this year's whirlwind. In “I’m an Artist, but I’m Fun!”, Miryam Coppersmith reviews Adam Kerbel’s Dead Muse, a solo performance that mixes autobiography, dance theater, Hollywood fantasy, awkward auditions, bad dates, and the strange intimacy of being witnessed. Kerbel doesn’t simply tell his story—he builds a world through physicality, sound, lighting, and direct interaction with the audience. Read Miryam Coppersmith’s review “I’m an Artist, but I’m Fun!” in the thINKingDANCE archive and sign up for our newsletter at the link in our bio to stay informed this Fringe season! #thINKingDANCE #DanceCriticism #SoloPerformance #DanceTheater #PhiladelphiaDance
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July 17, 2026 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️ My heart is overflowing with gratitude. Thank you @hbstudionyc for hosting the Artist Talk, and to everyone who attended xxx
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The start of a BIG project
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💫Glimpses of 🫧ALLUSIONS to GRAVITY🌀✨Contact Improvisation Fundamentals✨ 📍Performance Garage, Philadelphia 🍃 Follow @contactimprovphilly 👈🏽 🤲🏾Thank you so much to all participants, all CI Philly organizers/team and community, @nicole_bindler for hosting me and everyone involved to make this event happen 🙏🏾 Until next dances 🩵💙 📸 Footage taken at Allusions to Gravity: CI Fundamentals Workshop (2026)📍Philadelphia 🪄reel edition @znt_dance
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✨Dear NYC community, join us Thursdays in June for Contact Improvisation class🌀with @znt_dance 🪻 🌿 We will navigate a collective journey of embodiment from subtleties of falling, rolling, flying, cultivating trust, care and resilience within ourselves, others and our practice 🍃 📍115 Wooster Street, 2nd Floor, SoHo ✨✨(Buzz Dance Studio)✨✨ 🕖 7 - 9pm 🤲🏾 $20 (preferably cash) 🌱 All levels are welcome, invite your friends❣️ 👉🏽 Follow @contactimprovnyc 👈🏽 📸 video taken by @internetjam13 during 🫧Allusions to Gravity🌀 CI Fundamentals workshop with @contactimprovphilly ❣️ 💃🏾 dancing with lovely Tamar & @miryam.moves
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ANNOUNCING Philly In Eynem (Philly all together) a night of Yiddish Learning, Creativity and Community, coming very soon to Kol Tzedek Synagogue in West Philly! Hot off the heels of our emerging scene’s media debut last month on WHYY, I and many of my West Philly Yiddish Culture co conspirators invite you to join us for a heymish evening celebrating all things Yiddish! We’re announcing it very close to the actual event date on May 17th, and we’re hoping you’ll register (link in bio) and join us! You don’t even have to be from Philly to come! Just look at this amazing flyer by @_feygele_ If you’ve ever been curious about klezmer music or Yiddish culture this is the perfect place to start! We’ll have workshops on Yiddish Language, klezmer music, Yiddish art, a film about Jewish resistance in the Holocaust, and of course, lots of joyous sound and dancing. Inspired by the peer-led teaching and community building of @shtetl_philly, Philly Yid, the recent community theater productions of the Dybbuk and Fidler Afn Dakh, I am bringing together a whole bunch of these incredibly knowledgeable and dedicated people to share our love and our passions with you. Last year, Kol Tzedek (where I lead the inimitable Simcha Band) and I were awarded a grant from the National Yiddish Book Center’s Yiddish Arts And Culture for Jewish Communities program. In January, we gathered a bunch of the folks making Yiddish culture and growing new communities around it in West Philly and Beyond for a chat that is available on the Radiant Others Klezmer Podcast. Now we are sharing our love for the sounds, movements, histories and more of this culture with you. What is happening with our beloved music and culture in West Philly (and throughout the city) today is amazinng and unprecedented in my decades of experience playing, teaching, and organizing. The opportunity to build or discover a home for yourself in this culture, this world, right here at in our home is greater than its ever been. Please, join us with your excitement and your koyekh (spirit). Registration link in my bio. Zayt gezunt and see you there!
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Wednesday Night Dance Improvisation Performance Practice with Rotating Teachers Miryam Coppersmith leads Wednesday, April 15, 2026 6:30-8:30pm at Headlong/Mascher Space, 1170 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19146 @mascher.space @miryam.moves Voice Body Space Time “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.” —Jean-Michel Basquiat In this class, we’ll decorate space and time by improvising with our bodies and voices. For me, engaging voice and movement brings my whole self to the composition. We’ll open pathways for compositional ideas to travel freely between the voice and the movement, transforming and surprising us as they do. We’ll allow the voice to explore, communicate, create texture, and notice how the body responds when allowed to vibrate with sound. Sound-making can be very individual, so by making compositions together, we’ll explore the edges of creating sound in ensemble as well.  Miryam Coppersmith (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, writer, and educator who aims to create spaces for transformation for her collaborators, audience, and greater community. She creates with movement, speech, and sound coming from her body, drawing on training in Contact Improvisation, Six Viewpoints, theater, song, Black American social dance, and Yiddish dance. Miryam's solo dance/theater piece Mirele Lernt Zich Yiddish (2023) was hailed a "must-see performance" by The Dance Journal. She has performed with the Six Viewpoints Institute, Vervet Dance, Olivia Brown, Janna Meiring, and others. She is the Director of local performance journal thINKingDANCE.net. miryamcoppersmith.com $5-25 sliding scale ($15 suggested), cash or Venmo, NOTAFLOF Pre-registration NOT required Please ring the "Rear Studio" buzzer to be let into the building Mask optional #improvisation #Phillydance #dance #ImprovisationPerformancePractice #WNDI Photo by Alan DiBerio.
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Just in time for me to aim towards posting more regularly online: I get to share a nice long on WHYY by Peter Crimmins about the burgeoning Yiddish Culture scene in West Philly! I don’t know if I count as a “younger adult” like it says under the headline, but I’m glad to be in the mix with all these inspiring folks running things like Philly Yid, Shtetl Philly, and more. Seriously, these cats are organized and not “rag tag” in the slightest. There’s so much that doesn’t get to make it in this (or any) cultural roundup article, about who’s involved, why we do what we do, what it does for us in terms of connecting to ourselves and the world around us. Fortunately, I recorded a whole @radiantotherspodcast episode with lots more from everyone quoted (and many photographed) in this article that you can listen to. Listen and Dig us! I feel so sweet having musically fertilized and sown cultural seeds for well over a decade right here at home. Now I see all sorts of ideas, activities, and groups blooming, some of which I didn’t have anything to do with planting and growing. It’s wonderful. Come out April 16th ie th 3rd Thursday for Di Hoykhe at Abyssinia, and do what I said in the article. And stay tuned in for always more great Philly happenings. Mir Zaynen Do!
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Mir zaynen do. Honored to be included in @whyy 's feature story on the renaissance of Yiddish culture currently blossoming across Philadelphia. There are many paths of love that lead to the work of cultural revival + I'm grateful to share some political context for why this work is important in our time. Make no mistake: this is not about nostalgia. It's about our future and what world we want to be apart of. Shoutout to all those culture-bearers who are doing this work in Philly + beyond, many more than were covered in this article. + Special thanks for @danblacksberg for being a light + a mentor to a whole generation of Philly Yiddishists 🕯️ Mir zaynen do ( 'we're still here' ). A zissen pesach to all.
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A zissen Pesach (a sweet Passover) to all - next year may everyone be free to sing about borsht together! Full video of the 2025 Phoenix Yiddish Culture Festival finale song on our YouTube channel. 🎥 @therealsnapdad 🎤Dario Miranda
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Witnessing the birth of a new Yiddish vocal trio was a highlight of the 2025 Phoenix Yiddish Culture Festival. @miryam.moves, @jordanwax.dzhordnvaks, and @david.levy52 met days before this performance of “Bei Mir Bis Du Shoen (To Me You’re Beautiful)” but quickly found a blend of harmonies that would make the Bagelman Sisters kvel. Full video on the Little Chef Klezmer Band YouTube channel.
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