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Saturday, January 25 2025
Junior Arax Dancers (Photo courtesy Della Cassia)

Detroit Nurse Preserves Heritage Through Dance

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On weekdays, Nayiri Karapetian walks the halls of Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, in a nurse’s scrubs. On Saturdays, she stands in a dance studio in black tights and jazz shoes, teaching 130 performers of various ages intricate steps she choreographed to the beats of Armenian folk songs.

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