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e Detroit Dance Collective
celebrates the opening of its
17th season with a fund-rais-
ing concert event at 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 17. Perfor-
mances by present and past
company members, along
with a reception to honor
Paula Kramer, will be held at
the Millenium Theatre Cen-
ter in Southfield. Donations
are appreciated. Call (810)
552-7000 for tickets.
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teachers, performers and chore-
ographers. We wanted to do what
the university told us to do: 'Go
out and make art.' And so we
did."
All of Kramer's works — more
than 40 — are Jewish-based,
says Kramer, who admits that
dancing is in her genes. Her
mother was a championship ball-
room dancer, for starters.
"rm a Russian/Spanish Jew,"
Kramer says. "I believe that there
is a genetic affinity for the arts
that you don't even know — that
you're a product of everything
that came before you. While I
hope that all of my dances are
universal and everyone can un-
derstand them, they still come
from the Jewish experience ... I
think that I'm very much tied to
my personal history and the im-
portance of Jews in the arts."
Though she danced on and off
throughout her childhood, it
wasn't until Kramer was 22 that
she really got serious about her
avocation.
"You need to find out what it
is that you really like to do in life,
and then do it well. Find out how
it benefits your community and
then do it better," says Kramer,
who stopped performing 20 years
ago to focus on choreographing.
"That's why I teach — to bring
children and parents to the real-
ization that the arts are a won-
derful way to improve your life."
In addition to creating works
for DCC, which now has a new
rehearsal and performance home
at the Central United Methodist
Church in Detroit, Kramer teach-
es modern dance in the Water-
ford and Detroit Public School
districts. In Detroit, DCC is just
one of many groups participating
in the ACE (Arts Centered Ed-
ucation) grant, which attempts
to integrate the arts into Detroit's
academic curriculum.
"As a Jewish woman artist,
and as a teacher, I hope the stu-
dents that rm working with will
have their own place in history,"
says Kramer.
"My ties to the religion are very
deep. It's a story that doesn't go
away, and I hope to keep telling
that story," says the enthusiastic
almost-60-year-old Scorpio.
"There's a lot of roses to smell
out there." ❑
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