Judith Brin Ingber papers

Judith Brin Ingber is a dancer, choreographer, author and educator in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She grew up in Minneapolis, where she trained under Lorand and Anna Andahazy, two former members of the de Basil Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo, whom had started a school in St. Paul, with a branch in Minneapolis. She trained with them from the time she was seven until the age of seventeen when she left Minneapolis. Ingber first performed with Ballet Borealis in a production of Scheherazade on the Northrop stage at the University of Minnesota.

Ingber moved to New York to study dance, earning a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, where she trained under the famed dance teacher Bessie Schönberg. She also studied at the Martha Graham Studio and the Merce Cunningham Studio. She taught dance to children at Downtown Community School, and she worked as the editorial assistant at Dance Magazine from 1967-1969.

She lived in Israel from 1972-1977, where she taught apprentices of two modern dance companies at the Batsheva Bat Dor Dance Society and choreographed for the Batsheva Dance Company. She was also assistant to Sara Levi-Tanai, the famed director and founder of Inbal Dance Theatre from 1974-1977. While she lived in Israel she researched and wrote her first works on dance in Israel, Dance Perspectives #74, “Shorashim: The Roots of Israeli Folk Dance." She also co-founded the first Israeli dance magazine, Israel Dance Annual.

When she returned to Minneapolis, Ingber 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. In 1971, she initiated and performed in the inaugural Choreographers’ Evening (then called Young Choreographers' Evening) at the Walker Art Center. In 1986, she co-founded Voices of Sepharad, a Sephardic music and dance troupe. She is also the author of numerous published works on Jewish history and dance, including a biography of European/American dancer and choreographer Fred Berk, and the editor of the anthology “Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance."

Ingber is based in Minneapolis and continues to teach, write, perform and choreograph.