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Originally all female, the
troupe decided after learning
"couple dances" at workshops
that it was time to go out and
look for potential partners.
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costs of costumes, sound
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to entertain. The history of
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teresting because it is a mere
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FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1988
Shelly Jackier, bottom right, and her Hora Aviv dancers take a breather
from rehearsal.
flora Aviv's spring schedule
included performances at the
Builders Show in March and
at the Southfield Civic
Center's Annual Interna-
tional Festival.
The Festival Dancers are
celebrating their 21st year, a
very unusual event for a
Detroit dance company. In
contrast to the diversity of the
individuals who have danced
with Hora Aviv, the Festival
Dancers have a profile all
their own:
The troupe's artistic direc-
tor Harriet Berg describes the
typical Festival Dancer as "a
mature woman, who probably
danced in college or profes-
sionally. With older or grown
children, she is still in-
terested in the art of dance
and in the act of performing
and has found few other
outlets in Detroit for her
creative dance abilities."
Six women, all 30 and
above, make up today's
Festival Dancers. Most take
two to three classes each
week, in ballet, modern
dance, or jazz, taught at the
Center or elsewhere, in addi-
tion to the group's weekly
rehearsal on Thursday.
There's no room for slacking
off, according to Berg. "Since
our major focus is
choreography and repertory,
everyone is expected to keep
up a required level of techni-
que."
During those 21 years
Festival Dancers has
undergone continual changes.
Most of the dancers stay with
the group one to five years.
"We are very proud of the
women who have 'graduated'
from Festival Dancers and
have gone on to make their
contributions in other places,"
Berg says. One former dancer
now has hew own company in
East Detroit. Another is head
of the dance department at
Oakland University. A third
Festival Dancer alumna went
on to become a Feldenkreis
body therapist. A fourth has
moved to Albuquerque and
began a Festival Dancer
chapter there. Meanwhile, the
group's assistant director,
Margo Cohen has been with
Festival Dancers for 15 years.
erg, herself, is well known
in Detroit dance circles and
has been a dance instructor at
the Jewish Center for nearly
30 years. Trained in dance at
Wayne State University, she
directed the WSUdance
workshop in the 1940s and
1950s.
Both the Festival Dancers
and flora Aviv have had a
number of inquiries from
Christian groups for perfor-
mances and instruction. This
season the Festival Dancers
have put together a new pro-
gram entitled, "From The Bi-
ble To Broadway," a portion of
which they performed in
March as part of a Sunday
morning service at the
Nativity Episcopal Church in
Birmingham.
The entire Festival Dancers
show was taken to a number
of different nursing homes in
the community in mid-March.
The group also performed for
the Jewish Parent's Institute
at the Maple/Drake Jewish
Center in April and took its
show to a Hadassah luncheon
last week.
"We really pay our own way
from the money we make
from our performances," Berg
explains. "We are basically a
self-supporting group in
residence at the J.C.C., which
provides us with our rehear-
sal space."
The troupe prides itself in
keeping alive the Jewish
ethnic heritage, and, like
Hora Aviv, structures its
repetoire around the Arabic
and Yemenite, the Eastern
European, and the modern
Israel Sabra dances.