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Instructor Lianne Paskel with her students; Anna Jaffe, 9, of West
Bloomfield is in the foreground.
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Special to the Jewish News
W
hen Brittany and Gabriella
Herschfus first took dance
classes, their mother recalls
"there was such a focus on the dance
recital from the minute the girls
walked in the door."
"It was not about a 7- or 8-year-old
just dancing for the fun of it; it was all
about the costumes and the recital,"
says Fern Herschfus of Southfield. "I
figured there had to be an alternative
that would allow my daughters to have
a fun, healthy outlet without the pres-
sure of a recital.
They found that alternative in
Lianne Paskel, a dance teacher
who was then, more than a decade
ago, offering classes at the Jewish
Community Center in Oak Park.
The Herschfus girls — Brittany,
now 18 and a graduate of Bais Yaakov
in Oak Park, and Gabriella, 17, and a
graduate of Akiva Hebrew Day School
in Southfield — danced with Paskel
for a decade. Theirs was a class of
Jewish girls across the religious spec-
trum who loved Paskel's focus on free-
dom of creative movement rather than
on an end-of-year recital. They did
jazz, hip-hop and any form of move-
ment the girls wanted to learn.
Lianne Paskel
Religious Jewish families like the
safety of the no stage-recital perfor-
mance, which doesn't compromise
their adherence to modesty laws.
"Lianne choreographs dance rou-
tines for the girls to perform weekly
— the focus is on building skills and
having fun," Herschfus says.
Last fall, Paskel teamed with Franklin
Athletic Club in Southfield to create the
Franklin Dance & Movement Center,
the sole studio where she now teaches,
offering group, semi-private and private
classes for youths (boys and girls) and
adults with that same emphasis on love
for dance.
"Dance is not about being perfect
or trying to be a prima ballerina','