Cleveland-native Antonio Brown caught the dance bug early in his life. Like many kids of his generation, he stood in front of the TV watching music videos and trying to emulate what he saw. His mother, looking to focus all of Brown’s youthful energy, enrolled him in 3rd grade at Cleveland’s Newton
As a member of that captivated audience, and a part of the video, Rumzis, in her first season with the company, said of her experience working on and seeing Transcendence: “It was exciting to start off our season as a company with an extremely collaborative process. We worked
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 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 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,
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
From January 2-4, GroundWorks welcomed eleven dancers to the Cleveland State University studios for the company’s very first winter intensive. The participants, aged 18 and up, took class from and danced alongside members of the GroundWorks company, with additional classes taught by the Executive Artistic Director David Shimotakahara and Education and Community Engagement Coordinator
By Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer March 14, 2017 CLEVELAND, Ohio - The muses could not have been kinder to GroundWorks DanceTheater than they were going into the 2017 Spring Dance Series. Not only did the group's three-part program this week at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts coalesce around a theme of connections.
Spring is landing, and so is Scene Magazine's Best of Cleveland 2017. Creative expression is our passion - whether through live music collaborations (Violins of Hope & Carmina Burana) to artist residencies and educational outreach. We explore the nuances of the human experience and embody the pulse and movement of life through unique and
