Gloria Gaynor walks out the door
I often wondered whether Gloria Gaynor ever saw my video Dancing Auschwitz, and if so, how she felt about it. Did she mind that I used her song, I Will Survive, a short film where my father, my children, my niece, and I danced 'to life', to my father's survival, on the grounds of Auschwitz? I had no idea how she felt about Jews, or if her heart went out to Israel. When I uploaded my video in 2010, it went viral, and then was quickly taken down by Youtube due to a copyright c
Jane
Sep 26, 20252 min read
The Dancing Queen
Silent disco in the city Mum has always been the Dancing Queen. She told me that ever since she was a young girl, back in the 1920s, she loved to dance. Her father, a charmer, a good singer and dancer, would return home from an evening at a local tea room with a slice of creamy chocolate karpatka cake for her. Hearing him arrive, she would jump out of bed, and together they’d dance around the room. And she has loved dancing ever since. Then came the war. In 1939 everything ch
Jane
Sep 20, 20252 min read