ENTERTAINMENT FREE CHICKEN DINNER • Must Present Coupon WITH SECOND PURCHASE OF ANY OF OUR FAMOUS CHICKEN DINNERS! WM'S • LET US CATER YOUR NEXT AFFAIR 1 Coupon Per Customer • Sorry, No Buckets Pickup Only • MIAMI EMBERS RIBS SPECIAL SUNDAYS ONLY $2.00 OFF ANY DINNER Troupers Continued from preceding page ners. The men in the group have all been recent arrivals 26076 GREENFIELD at LINCOLN from Israel. 968-1100 LINCOLN CENTER Originally all female, the troupe decided after learning "couple dances" at workshops that it was time to go out and look for potential partners. The men in the group have all been recent arrivals from e ii,_ Israel. _„,e 0«\ - - ., io, By attending Hora Shalom ,,,soes , 0 each year, the troupe became BUY ONE PLAIN WAFFLE OR ONE 40° 3 a factor in putting Detroit on PLAIN OMELETTE ONLY WITH the folkdance map, Jackier 3 GREAT LOCATIONS: 26505 NORTHWESTERN HWY.ISOUTHFIELD TOAST & JELLY . . . GET ONE .. . says. Three years ago a juried 29556 ORCHARD LK.IFARMINGTON HILLS festival in Boston inivited NEAR 13 MILE VALID MONDAY THRU FRIDAY Hora Aviv to participate. The 6680 ORCHARD LK.IW. BLOOMFIELD J FRANCHISES AVAILABLE IN SELECTED AREAS group has since returned to the Boston festival, has ap- peared twice in Cleveland, and attends the Ann Arbor International Festival. "We've also been to the In- 32734 Your Hosts, ternational Festival of Paris Grand River Larry & Mimi — Paris, Michigan," Green- 1/4 Mile East Freedman baum points out. "It's a pro- of Farmington Rd. In The minent festival, and as a OPEN 7 DAYS Village Mon.-Sat. 9-9 result of our appearance Commons Sun. 10-8 there, we received a real Mall • Continental Breakfast honor, an invitation to appear • Variety of Sandwiches PHONE in Spain — the real Spain. • Chili • Soups Unfortunately, we couldn't af- 471-DAWG • Salads • Desserts ford to go." DINE IN OR CARRY-OUT The group dances regularly rcouPoN1 at the Northland Interna- tional Festival each year and now puts on annual concerts each spring, which, in addi- tion to its social engagements, helps offset the costs of costumes, sound equipment, and travel ex- penses. "None of the dancers makes any money," says Jackier. "It all goes back in- to the troupe." JN Other states provide com- 1 COUPON PER PURCHASE • EXPIRES 6-30-88 munity financial support for new cultural projects, Green- baum points out. "Unfor- tunately, that's not the case in Michigan." "However, we must add that the Jewish Community Center has given us a roof and space for our practices and performances:" In performance, flora Aviv has two goals: to educate and to entertain. The history of Israeli folkdance is in- teresting because it is a mere 40 years old, Jackier says. "Yet its roots are in the Bible. We believe it's important to educate and demonstrate for both Jewish and non-Jewish audiences?' Greenbaum says that Hora Aviv is committed to bringing DS Israeli folkdance to interna- 00 SO tional dance festivals and to making sure that the Greater 15: e :PGN 1% 0 AGE SOMM0 Detroit Jewish comunity is GOOk PUPS) *Ott COOP JN JJN represented. F3' CA-0,141,0- Jackier adds that the group - 'POSSO OS PON OVISONG will continue to exist to make OPP FRED \I °le° % sure that the "beautiful, ; °els Vi cultural side of Israel and the contributions of the Jewish people are sustained" in this country. With This Coupon Good Thru June 30, 1988 ANYHOUR! ANYDAY! JN ,,,,.. CAt/t t WAFFLE WAFFLE ;fi e — > kkes s OMELETTE ve' OMELETTE FREE!! ' MEET THE CHICAGO DOG FREE VCHICAGO PURE BEEF DAWG WITH PURCHASE OF ANY SANDWICH! I • 60 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.