Erica Goldman, Israeli Dance
Erica Goldman was born and raised in New York, where she first inherited her love of Israeli dance from her father. While a student at Brandeis University in Boston, Erica was the director of the student performance troupe B'yachad and danced with various other East Coast Israeli dance troupes including Parparim and Screaming Sa'adya. She branched out into other kinds of folk dance as a member of the Mandala Folkdance Ensemble, and choreographed their last Israeli suite. Erica also danced with the Collage Dance Ensemble for a few years before moving to Los Angeles, and competed with them at the Golden Karagoz Folk Dance Competition in Turkey in 2003. In addition to her work at New Community Jewish High School, Erica is currently the Dance Director of Camp Alonim and the Brandeis-Bardin campus of American Jewish University and performs with the Keshet Chaim Dance Ensemble. Erica holds a degree in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Brandeis University and was an engineering linguist for Comverse Technology for over seven years.