By Steve Sucato GroundWorks DanceTheater's 5th Annual Contemporary Dance Winter Intensive proved once again why it is the dance intensive of choice for discerning dancers looking for an affordable, inviting, and superior-quality learning experience. The 3-day deep dive
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
CLEVELAND — The Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) Creative Arts Center of Excellence welcomes GroundWorks DanceTheater as a professional company in residence at its Metropolitan Campus beginning January 10, 2024. The company will use the dance studios in the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts for its
By Steve Sucato One of GroundWorks DanceTheater’s most popular core education programs, exCHANGE, gives students a window into the same concepts and processes that GroundWorks professional dancers are using in the studio to create new dance works with choreographers. The
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 GroundWorks DanceTheater’s newest outreach residency program, Groovin’ with GroundWorks, kicked off on September 29 at Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging’s Paul W. Alandt Center in Cleveland. The dance and creative movement program for participants aged 60-95 runs through November 17, 2023, at three
By Steve Sucato GroundWorks welcomes its newest company member Emma Janus. The native of Lexington, South Carolina, received her early dance training at the Columbia City Jazz Conservatory in Lexington. In 2022, she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in dance from the Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase College. While
By Steve Sucato In our ongoing efforts to enrich the lives of Northeast Ohio residents through dance and movement, GroundWorks DanceTheater embarked on its latest initiative, Moving MS, this past May-July 2023. The seven week research study was a partnership between GroundWorks,
GroundWorks DanceTheater Founding Artistic Director David Shimotakahara has been recognized with Summit Artspace’s titular Arts Alive Award for 2023. The Arts Alive Award is given to an individual or individuals who give selflessly to the cause of advancing arts and culture in the community. Whether an artist, arts administrator, volunteer
