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Her parents were Dutch,
but they'd honeymooned in
England and remained there
for a time afterwards. Because
Sunny was born in England,
she and others with British
and Swiss papers were spared
the ravages of Hitler. Back in
Holland, she and her family
were deported and interned for
three years in the same con-
centration camp at the same
time as Anne Frank, but "on
the other side of the fence,"
Sunny points out, the area re-
served for "P.O.W.'s" who
would be exchanged in return
for German soldiers.
"We were allowed to keep
our own clothes," she recalls.
The frustrating boredom left
her with "all this pent up
energy," and when the family
was released, "I wanted to sing;
I wanted to dance; I wanted to
live."
Returning to The Hague,
Sunny's first choice was to be-
come a ballet dancer, but her
family was adamant. "Nice
Jewish girls didn't do that sort
of thing." Instead she joined a
youth group, was introduced to
Israeli dance, and by the age of
16 was leading folk groups. She
began formal instruction in
dance and choreography in The
Hague.
After the family emigrated
to Toronto in 1951, the young
teenager completed her train-
ing under the direction of Teme
Londen Kernerman and the
Nir Kodah Dancers. "I was
taught the traditional methods
of Fred Berk, the father of Is-
raeli folk dance. I learned to
teach by very precisely break-
ing down each step. Now I
could teach sitting in a chair if
I wanted to."
But Sunny's young life was
not all studying and dancing.
At the B'nai Akivah Summer
Camp in Wisconsin, she met
native Detroiter Meyer Segal,
resulting in their 1959 mar-
riage, a move to Detroit, and
eventually three sons, a
daughter-in-law, and four
young grandsons. Sunny de-
scribes their home in Oak Park
as a traditional Jewish home.
Husband Meyer is a history
and government teacher at
Redford High School.
As a dancer and a dance
teacher, Sunny is familiar,
however, to a wide spectrum of
the Jewish community. In
addition to her work at the
Jewish Community Center for
the past eight years, she
taught weekly classes to
teenagers at the Beth Jacob
School for Girls for 22 years
and has also been a dance in-
structor at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek. She has also led home
classes and formed the Ayalot
Dancers.
She has given solo perform-
ances for Israel Independence
Day at the Southfield Civic
Center and choreographed and
lead a group for the First In-
ternational Festival at North-
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Friday, March 6, 1987

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

ENTERTAINMENT

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program, If Not Higher.
As an active youngster in a
Haifa Kindergarten, Uri Segal
cannot remember a time before
he began dancing. "In those
days (the mid '40's) there were
very few folk dances, but
everyone did `Mayim, Mayim'.
Later in the youth movement
we learned all the new dances
as they were created."
As a teenager Uri performed
often and took part in a three-
day festival in 1956 at Kibbutz
Dalia, which he described as
"an Israeli Woodstock." For
three years he was also a
member of the distinguished
folk group Karmon.
Uri's teaching career. began
in the Israeli Army. Later he
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became a familiar figure to
many young kibbutzniks. Like
Sunny, his formal training also
included choreography and
education in dance instruction.
Never believing that he
would stay beyond five years,
Uri came to Detroit in 1973 to
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study electrical engineering at
the Lawrence Institute of
Technology. After receiving
his B.S. degree, he completed
further studies in industrial
management. Four years ago
he began his own Southfield
business in which he sells tele-
phones, computers, and secu-
rity systems. He and his wife -(
Janis have two youngsters,
Adam, 11 and Ariana, 1.
Uri says he felt like a "dance
missionary" when he came to
this country. "I saw that some
of the dances had been dis-
torted." After working as a
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dance specialist at Camp
Ramah, he began teaching on
Sunday mornings for the
Jewish Parents' Institute, at
Camp Tamarack, and at the
Jewish Center. He is also a
familiar figure at many of the
local Conservative and Reform
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religious schools.
As a member of Hora Israel,
Uri performed frequently in
the Greater Detroit area, ap-
pearing on local television as
well. He has also learned to
mix his dance and academics,
teaching an Israeli History
Through Dance course at Oak-
land Community College, at
the University of Michigan
and at Wayne State Univer-
sity.
Uri's special rapport with
youth makes him an ideal teen
instructor. In his Sunday
morning class at Temple Is-
rael, he captures the interest of
his students by including the
"freer dances that the Israeli
teens are actually doing to-
day."
What do dancers do for rec-
reation when they're not danc-
ing? Sunny enjoys crochet and
needlepoint, cooking and bak-
ing, and has a special love for
the theatre. Uri plays basket-
ball, racquetball and tennis.
He sails, swims, and skis.
talks
Sunny
enthusiastically about her
Center dance group. She de-

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