Judith Brin Ingber

Judith Brin Ingber

Born in Minneapolis, she began studying dance with Lillian Vail. Her teachers included Lorand and Anna Andahazy, with whom she debuted on the Northrop stage at the University of Minnesota. She later moved to New York, where earned her bachelor’s degree at Sarah Lawrence College. She also studied at the Martha Graham Studio with Margaret Jenkins and at the Merce Cunningham Studio. In 1967-69, she worked as the editorial assistant at Dance Magazine.
Brin Ingber lived in Israel in 1972-77. During that time, she taught in Batsheva and Bat-Dor. For Batsheva, she choreographed The Language of Dance (1975) – a program for young audiences composed of parts of Batsheva dances accompanied with explanations and demonstrations designed to bring these audiences closer to modern dance. The program was filmed for the Educational TV. Brin Ingber also served as assistant to Sara Levi-Tanai in Inbal. She was commissioned to write an article about Israeli dance for Dance Perspectives, and consequently began working as a dance researcher and cofounded the Israel Dance Annual with Giora Manor.
When she returned to Minneapolis, Judith was the first director of the dance program of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, where she taught dance history for twenty years. She continued to study Jewish and Israeli dance, writing books and articles and holding workshops, seminars and lectures in the US and Europe, as well as in many institutes in Israel, including the Western Galilee College, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Orot College. Her last book, Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, was published in 2011.
Brin Ingber continues training in ballet, as well as in Alexander Technique, yoga and Pilates.