PASSION FOR DANCING is a documentary film by Shuli Eshel, an Israeli-born Chicagoan, who is an award-winning producer/director of videos, films and documentaries, that will be completed by year’s end. This documentary weaves the themes of family, survival, feminism, peace activism, immigration and integration with her childhood passion for Salsa that she reconnected with in her later life. It is a story about the diverse multi-racial Salsa community in Chicago which loves the vitality, music, rhythms and emotions of the dance and shares their story. Salsa is a way of life all over the world that crosses all boundaries regardless of age, nationality, race, religion, ethnicity or gender. The Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art is a partner in this project and it is their Mission to expand opportunities and recognition for women in the arts. PASSION FOR DANCING highlights that notion that it is never too late to reconnect with a childhood passion which is something that the baby boom generation is now able to do and this fact is personified by the fact that a large contingent of retirees are now attending university classes, lectures and using university libraries as they now have the time to learn and do the things that their professional careers and raising families did not allow them to do. Shuli’s other films include To Be a Women Solider, Women’s Peace in the Middle east, One Step Ahead: Israeli and Palestinian Women, Mudpeoples, Illinois Women Artists: The New Millennium, Maxwell Street, A Living Memory, the Jewish Experience in Chicago, and Jewish Women in American Sport: Settlement Houses to the Olympics.
