By Steve Sucato What do Tik Tok dances, handshakes, and locomotion exercises have to do with educational development? Those, along with other engaging learning tasks, were part of the curriculum designed to help sharpen students problem solving, thinking, and motor skills at two GroundWorks DanceTheater summer teaching
By Steve Sucato A lot of time, nerves, and sweat equity went into GroundWorks DanceTheater’s It Takes Two! 2022 gala benefit this past May 26. The annual event that raised nearly $120,000 for GroundWorks’s education and outreach efforts in and around Northeast, Ohio. A huge part of
By Steve Sucato On June 14, 2022, Joan Meggitt was named Groundworks DanceTheater’s new Education Director. Meggitt follows in the dance steps of longtime Education & Community Engagement Director, Rebecca Burcher who made significant strides in GroundWorks’s education and community programming as well as helping to shape GroundWorks’s inclusion policies. Originally from
By Steve Sucato With partial funding by the Cavaliers Community Foundation, GroundWorks brought its Kinection for Learning program to Cleveland’s Willson School this past March - May. Home of the Tigers, Willson is a PreK-8 school whose mission is to offer a unique, individualized learning experience while striving
By Steve Sucato Continuing GroundWorks DanceTheater’s decade-long partnership with Rainey Institute, the company is wrapping up an 8-week program of community-based dance instruction. The program, consists of a series of mini residencies in dance instruction for 3rd-8th grade students of the pre-professional afterschool program at Rainey Dance Academy (RDA), and the
By Steve Sucato The proverb "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," can be applied to educational learning as well. At Cleveland Metropolitan School District’s Warner Girls' Leadership Academy, students are embracing play to learn via GroundWorks’ Creative Play after school residency program. Built of interactive sessions where
By Steve Sucato As part of our ongoing Kinection for Learning residency program designed to support and enhance classroom learning through creative movement and kinesthetic learning, GroundWorks DanceTheater’s teaching artists have been in residence at Warrensville Heights’ Green Inspiration Academy and Cleveland’s Warner Girls’ Leadership Academy since the beginning
By Steve Sucato GroundWorks DanceTheater’s third annual Winter Intensive returned in-person to Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance studios for 3-days of learning this past January 6-8. Eleven participants immersed themselves in 18 creative and collaborative sessions over the three days including classes in ballet, modern dance, improvisation,
Written by Kazimir Klein The Center for Arts-Inspired Learning (CAL) created the CAL Sprouts, which is their newest pre-school multi-arts program. The CAL Sprouts programming was “created to connect learning through the arts to kindergarten readiness skills with a series of lessons and assessments that target the Ohio Department of
