You Go Girl! Michael-Ann Russell JCC Presents Celebration of Jewish Women at Dance Festival!

The 14th Annual Festival Yachad and the Michael-Ann Russell JCC will present its Gala Dance Performance on May 30 at the Broward Center for Performing Arts, and a Children’s Dance Performance on June 6 at North Miami Beach Performing Arts Theatre.
By: Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center
 
March 4, 2010 - PRLog -- The 14th Annual Festival Yachad and the Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center/Sanford L. Ziff Campus, 18900 NE 25th Avenue, North Miami Beach, FL  will present its Gala Dance Performance on Sunday, May 30, at 7pm at the Au-Rene Theatre, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, and a Children’s Dance Performance on Sunday, June 6, at 5pm at the North Miami Beach Performing Arts Theatre.

Following last year’s success, Festival Yachad will feature more than 500 dancers on stage from our own community and invited groups from Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Panama, and Israel performing Israeli folkdance music, with colorful costumes, amazing scenery and special lighting effects. This year Festival Yachad turns 14 years old, and will be celebrating Jewish Women, therefore the gala’s theme is “Nashim”, which in Hebrew means “Women”.  Each choreographed dance will portray a Jewish tradition that women do, like the Mikveh, Chalah making, Henna, etc…Biblical Women such as Miriam, Rachel, Dvorah, and Esther will also be portrayed. Modern women such as Ofra Haza, Naomi Shemer and Sarit Haddad will be honored as well. “It is a wonderful way to educate our children about their heritage, while they perform our Jewish Traditions”, explains, Nicole Papu, Festival Yachad Co-Chair.

“Festival Yachad is sponsored by Safra National Bank of New York and it is a pleasure for us to be associated with such a strong financial institution, that provides us with the support we need to bring this event to audiences in both Miami-Dade and Broward Counties”, added Esther Fuhrman, Festival Yachad Co-Chair.

Tickets for the Gala Performance will range between $10 and $35 and will be available for purchase at the Broward Center Box Office, starting March 22, 2010.

Tickets for Festival Yachad’s Children’s Performance (sponsored by Amalia Children’s Fine Jewelry) will range between $35 and $50, and will be available for purchase at the Bamachol Dance office, beginning April 12.

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The Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center/Sanford L. Ziff Campus is dedicated to the enrichment of Jewish life and fosters the spiritual, emotional, and physical development of its individual members through all of life’s stages and circumstances. The MAR-JCC represents a model of acceptance, understanding and diversity. As such, people look at the MAR-JCC as a center of excellence that epitomizes how shared Jewish values support a vibrant and evolving constituency. The MAR-JCC is a beneficiary agency of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and the United Way of Miami-Dade County, and a member of the Jewish Community Center Association of North America.
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