BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.3//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7250@tbzbrookline.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250709T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250709T163000 DTSTAMP:20250630T124604Z URL:https://www.tbzbrookline.org/events/film-why-we-dance-in-person/ SUMMARY:Film: Why We Dance (in person: Hebrew Senior Life\, 1550 Beacon St. \, Brookline) DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by TBZ A dance teacher and her students go into th e Pandemic alone and come out of it together\, making a film about how old er women move through space and time. Does your grandmother dance? Come se e why!\n\nWhy We Dance\nA short film about a long-running online dance cla ss for older women and a few of their partners.\n\nProject Overview\n“Wh y We Dance” (42 minutes\; 2025) is about women dancing\, confronting bod y image\, seeking renewed community and relevance\, developing resilience\ , becoming grandmothers. The context: an online dance class filmed by the dancers themselves.\n\nThe film documents a Zumba Gold class sponsored by the Newton MA Senior Center and taught over Zoom since the beginning of th e Pandemic by an extraordinarily charismatic and compassionate teacher\, K etty Rosenfeld\, who immigrated to the US from Indonesia. Many of the danc ers are also immigrants. As friends invited friends\, a virtual community of women from all over the country formed around this teacher. This is a m icro-budget project\, experiential and non-didactic\, filmed by the dancer s themselves.\n\nKey Personnel\nKey Artist: Ketty Rosenfeld is a highly re garded Zumba teacher and the inspiration for this film. An Indonesian immi grant married to a Jewish man from Newton\, she is eclectic in her outlook and familiar with dance forms from around the world. She served as the Di rector of International Education at Northeastern University for many year s before beginning to teach Zumba in the Greater Boston area in 2015.\nPro ducer/Director/Editor: Michal Goldman is a life-long dancer\, Academy awar d-winning filmmaker\, founder of Filmmakers Collaborative\, and founding D irector Emerita of the Boston Jewish Film Festival.\nLiaison &\; Tech S upport: Carole Rodenstein recently retired from a long career in high tech nology management with a focus on health care. She has danced with Ketty s ince 2017 and is now a licensed Zumba teacher herself.\n\nAdditional Infor mation\n Winner of the Team Choice Award\, 2025 Through Women’s Eyes International Film Festival\n https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6 1553294529635&\;sk=about\n For further information please contact Mi chal Goldman: michal@filmmakerscollab.org\n\nFunded in part by the MA Coun cil on the Arts/the Newton Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation\nFiscal Sponsor: Filmmakers Collaborative ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.tbzbrookline.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2025/06/WhyWeDance_Square.png CATEGORIES:Adult Learning,Homepage Featured LOCATION:Hebrew Senior Life\, 1550 Beacon St\, Brookline\, MA \, United Sta tes X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1550 Beacon St\, Brookline\ , MA \, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Hebrew Senior Life:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR