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 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 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,
By Steve Sucato On Thursday, December 8, 2022, a composition class of 25 upper grade-level high school students from Hawken School’s Performing Arts Department came to open rehearsal of GroundWorks Dancetheater at the Outcalt Rehearsal Hall at Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. The
By Steve Sucato Continuing GroundWorks’ artistic relationship with The National Center for Choreography - Akron (NCCAkron), the company’s dancers engaged in a 2-day creative exploration, October 17 & 20 at Cleveland State University's Department of Theatre and Dance, with Urbana, Illinois choreographer Alexandra Barbier as
By Steve Sucato The latest iteration of GroundWorks DanceTheater’s ongoing exCHANGE program, designed to engage students in the worlds of creative movement, contemporary dance, and kinesthetic learning, took GroundWorks’ teaching faculty this past September to Cleveland’s Bard High School Early College and the Cleveland School of
By Steve Sucato GroundWorks DanceTheater in conjunction with Akron’s Summit Artspace presented the latest round of GroundWorks’ Action/Reaction this summer. The four-part program designed to connect with participants with little or no experience of contemporary dance, but who are interested in or involved with creative practices in
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
