By Steve Sucato Morgan Walker’s burgeoning choreographic career got another boost recently when she became the second dancemaker to receive an invitation to participate in GroundWorks DanceTheater's new Discovery Residency program for up-and-coming choreographers. Walker, a dancer and rehearsal director for Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels Company, has a BFA in Dance Performance and
By Steve Sucato In Maddie Hanson's brief time with the company during the 2021-2022 season, she left a lasting impression. None more so than on GroundWorks DanceTheater Founding Artistic Director David Shimotakahara. When he had the idea for a series of “Discovery Residencies” for young choreographers to work with the company on
By Steve Sucato Choreographer Peter Chu finished a three-week Creative Residency with GroundWorks DanceTheater recently that included community dance classes, the creation of two new commissioned works for the company, and a work-in-progress showing of those works on Friday, March 4 at Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre & Dance’s
By Steve Sucato For GroundWorks DanceTheater’s very first collaboration with CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, the company has created a dance-on-video work to accompany the live performance by CityMusic musicians of composer Olivier Messiaen’s poignant masterwork, “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” (Quartet for the End of Time). The work is part
GroundWorks DanceTheater announces the appointment of Antonio Brown as our first Artist in Residence for the coming season. This newly created position will give the artist opportunities for longer and deeper creation time with the company. Executive Artistic Director David Shimotakahara welcomes Antonio, “I look forward to continuing the wonderful creative
After finishing his creative residency with GroundWorks, we talked with Antonio Brown and discussed how his creative process has shifted from creating a stage work with GroundWorks to a dance film. His new dance film, INSIDE, will premiere at out Drive-In Dance Film Screenings October 29-November 1. Learn more and reserve your spot here.
Written by GW trainee, Micky Esteban Carrie Mae Weens – Untitled from the Kitchen Tables Series (Woman with friends) How does a captured image reflect identity, both past and present? GroundWorks Executive Artistic Director David Shimotakahara premiers a new work for the company’s second year performing at the Akron Art Museum
We sat down with Brian Brooks, as he nears the end of his Creative Residency with GroundWorks, to ask him about his process and specifically about his work with our company. His new work will premiere October 11 & 12, 7:30 pm in the Allen Theatre in Playhouse Square. GW: In accepting this commission, what
We are often able to derive cultural feelings, political movements and changing values from the music of the time. David Shimotakahara, Executive Artistic Director and Founder of GroundWorks DanceTheater, drew inspiration from the music of the 1920s — which, in some ways, reflects our modern age — in his new work Sud Buster’s Dream, premiering
