Shura Lipovsky was born in The Hague (Netherlands) and is a highly valued performer of Yiddish song on the international stage. Writer and composer of new Yiddish songs, she appears worldwide as a singer and storyteller. She studied singing at the Rotterdam conservatory with Margreet Honig, the Yiddish language with Mira Rafalowicz, and at the Oxford Summer University and at Maison de la Culture Yiddish in Paris. She finished a dance education at the Dutch institute of folklore LCA in 1987. In 2005/2006 she studied at l‘Ecole Internationale de théâtre de Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
She studied Cabalistic concepts with several teachers in Europe and the United States. |
Under the name 'De Magid van Amsterdam' Shura Lipovsky teaches a number of singing workshops in Amsterdam.
In the workshops well-known and unknown Yiddish songs are sung, and Shura Lipovsky's own compositions and nigunim (wordless melodies). This is interspersed with meditative exercises and reflective themes around life questions from Jewish-Kabbalistic perspective. For everyone who loves singing. |