Alma Yoray
Alma Yoray (aka Alma S (ch) wartz ; * 1941 in Boston ; † 2010 ) was an American dancer, singer and yoga teacher ( Vipassana meditation ).
The daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants went to Berlin in 1960 to study expressive dance with Mary Wigman . She became pregnant there by a man who was arrested as a spy and had a son whom she named Yoray and who was put up for adoption in Israel; later she adopted this name as a stage name. She then performed as a dancer in England and finally returned to the USA, where she opened her own dance studio in Maine in 1976.
Between 1982 and 1988 she traveled several times to Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany and the Ukraine in search of her ancestors. In 1986 she conducted workshops with actors from the Witkacy Theater in Zakopane. Here she met Piotr Kolecki , a member of the Teatr Dźwięku ATMAN music group , with whom she gave a performance during the workshops. In the following year she undertook a tour of Poland with the group, which included Kolecki Marek Leszczyński and Marek Styczyński .
At the end of the 1980s she settled in Przesieka in the Giant Mountains and founded a center for Vipassana meditation, where she conducted numerous yoga, meditation and tai chi workshops. The last collaboration with Teatr Dźwięku ATMAN was the album Brown Session (1991). In 2006 she returned to the United States because of lung cancer and died there in 2010.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yoray, Alma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwartz, Alma; Swartz, Alma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American dancer, singer and yoga teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2010 |