Timbrel Artist in Residence
Ayal Prouser and Ora Horn Prouser
Ora and Ayal will teach us all how to juggle at for one of our evening programs. They’ll also be leading programming for our Zeitler Fellows and our Kids’ Campers.
Ayal Prouser, co-founder of Time Flies Circus, is a circus artist, choreographer, coach, and academic. Ayal has performed and taught circus professionally across North America, as well as in Asia, Africa, and Europe. He strives to elevate circus in America as “high art,” specifically seeking to demonstrate the artistic potential of flying trapeze. He has received funding for circus research and creation from the Jerome Foundation, Clark University, and Columbia University, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus The Casement as well as by the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics. His research can be found in academic journals and textbooks on circus theory. His most recent creative work was Coup De Foudre, an evening length contemporary circus show that takes place almost entirely on the flying trapeze. It was the first show of its kind to happen in the United States.
Ora Horn Prouser, she/her is the CEO and Academic Dean at The Academy for Jewish Religion, a pluralistic rabbinical, cantorial and graduate school in Yonkers, New York. She received her BA and PhD from The Jewish Theological Seminary, as well as a BA from Columbia University. She has published widely on the Bible focusing on disability studies, gender issues and literary analysis. She has also worked with the Melton Center for Jewish Education, the Davidson School of Education at JTS, and various educational institutions to develop curricula and approaches to Bible pedagogy for all levels and learning styles. Her book, Esau’s Blessing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Special Needs was recognized as a 2012 National Jewish Book Council finalist and as a Gold winner in the 2016 Special Needs Book Awards. Her book, Under One Tent: Circus, Judaism, and Bible breaks new ground in the use of movement and circus arts in studying biblical text. Her most recent book that she co-edited, Seder Interrupted: A Post October 7 Haggadah Supplement, gives us the opportunity to struggle with Passover in the post-October 7 world.
For more information, please contact air@havurah.org.