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L 626-5020 MON.-SAT. 10- 1 1 , SUNDAYS 12-9 I•1= WWII IEEE IMININI MINN =MI 1 MIN MINN ftp • American Heart Association Cystic Fibrosis Congress, the Jewish Agency Assembly, the In- ternational Christian Embassy Conference, the Psycho-Drama Conference, the Chorus Conduc- tors Convention and the Veteri- narian Convention. The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics has already booked its world congress with 12,000 participants for Sep- tember 2000. A number of major milestones between now and the end of the century are helping to boost book- ings: 1997 will mark the 100th an- niversary of the first Zionist Congress in Basel and there are a number of related events sched- uled; 1998 will be the 50th an- niversary of the establishment of the State of Israel; and the year 2000 will mark the second mil- lennium since the birth of Jesus. In anticipation of continuing growth, a new $35 million North Wing, set to be completed in 1998, is about to be built as a gift to Jerusalem from ICC Jerusalem for the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel. The new wing will include a business center, press center, 53,800 sq. ft. of additional exhibition space, banks and restaurants. ❑ WZPS Young People's Dance Troupe SHELLEY KLEIMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS I t is Tuesday evening, 6 p.m. At leave the stage to pursue careers an hour when most adolescents and raise children, some eventu- are either hooked into their ally return to join Hora Rishon- stereo headsets, ensconced in im, fondly called the "older front of the TV, cruising through generation." The troupes give upward of 100 shopping malls or doing home- work, a group of 50 12-to-14-year- performances a year throughout olds are practicing intricate folk Israel, in theaters and schools, at dance steps in preparation for one community centers, hotels and of their many public perfor- convention halls, and, of course, mances. They are Efrochim (lit- at the Akarmiel Dance Festival. erally, "chicks"), the youngest In addition, each troupe performs members of Hora Yerushalayim, abroad at least once annually one of the best known and most (dancers pay their own fare), and sought after folk dance troupes in it is perhaps easier to ask where this multi-generational troupe has Israel. Founded in the early 60s by a not held stage than where it has. small group of folk dance enthu- They have danced throughout the siasts, Hora Yerushalayim, a non- United States, South America and profit association partly funded Europe: They've performed at by the Jerusalem municipality, Euro Disney and are regular par- ticipants at the has gradually Dijon Folklore become a sym- cui', Festival in bol of the city France. as well as its The music is Z cultural repre- vintage Israeli, sentative in calling to mind dance festivals an earlier era of all over the pioneers work- world. Now ing the land. numbering Even the build- about 600 ing where Hora dancers from Yerushalayim ages 9 to 60, it is located is a is composed of walk down four indepen- Folk dance troupes abound in Israel. memory lane. dent groups, each with its own artistic and mu- Housed in what was once a dance sic directors and age-appropriate studio of Rina Nikova, the grand accompanying orchestra and vo- dame of biblical ballet, the walls calists. To join Hora Efrochim, are covered with photos, me- which now includes training class- mentos, even yellowing posters es for 9- to 11-year-olds, young announcing — in Yiddish — hopefuls face stiff competition: Out dance events that pre-date the of 800 children auditioning, only State of Israel. But the nostalgia ends on the 30 are chosen each year. After Hora Efrochim comes dance floor. Highly polished and Hora Neurim, the teen troupe professional, horn's current reper- made up of high school students, toire of 50 dances represents the many of them — though not all — best of Israeli folklore today. The result represents, says Is- are already hora veterans. The young adult troupe (ages 18 to 25) rael Shapira, hora's director gen- is actually called Hora Yerusha- eral, "the very spirit of the Israeli layim after the original core group. people." ❑ WZPS While most dancers at this point