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Story by Alan Hitsky
Photos by Angie Baan

T

he students get better and smarter every year, according to veteran dance
teacher Harriet Berg. This year's Tuesday morning dance class at the Jimmy
Prentis Morris Jewish Community Center ended their dance season with a June
3 recital, "Tuesday Twinkletoes Dance Around the World." The routines celebrated Israel,
Italy, Japan and France. The 30-minute program was followed by a reception so that
family and friends could greet the ballerinas.
This year's artists included, top photograph from left, Annie Citron, 5, of Huntington
Woods, Rebecca Bernard, 4, of Berkley, Rachel Gaft, 4, of Huntington Woods and Lillie
Citron, 3, of Huntington Woods. Rachel's brother, Ross Gaft, 12, assisted the dancers and
provided musical interludes on the piano during costume changes.
Harriet Berg has been teaching the class since 1959, first at the Meyers-Curtis JCC
in Detroit and then at JPM in Oak Park. Next year will mark its 50th season. Berg
also teaches adult women in her Festival Dancers at the JCC's Kahn Building in West
Bloomfield. ❑

June 19 0 2008

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