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
Willson Elementary School in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD), a magnet school for deaf and hard of hearing students, is one of GroundWorks' valued outreach partners. We have worked with Willson since the Spring of 2012, originally through our exCHANGE program. In recent years, we have been doing a series of long-term residencies
GroundWorks is excited to announce we will be participating in Giving Tuesday on December 1, 2020, less than two weeks away! We hope you will all join us in this special day of giving! Follow our social pages and blog to learn about the many special relationships and partnerships we have throughout our Northeast
What is at the heart of our ability to imagine and wonder in new and different ways? Audience members might ask themselves this question and more during Dawn of a Revolution, GroundWorks DanceTheater’s creative collaboration with ChamberFest Cleveland. The season finale event, taking place on Saturday, June 30 at 7:30pm at the Maltz Performing Arts
For over 100 years, the Rainey Institute has invested in Cleveland. Founded in 1904, it was originally a settlement house providing social services to Eastern European immigrants. Today, Rainey is dedicated to positive change for Greater Cleveland’s youth and families through education and participation in the performing and visual arts. Since 2013, Rainey Institute
What kind of memories do we create after we’ve had meaningful conversations? What becomes of those pivotal discussions? Are our memories the direct result of that significant interaction? How do we mark those moments in time? These questions and more are explored in Guest Artist Gina Gibney’s new work, “Drafting Foresight,” which will make its
For GroundWorks, 2016 was a year filled with extraordinary creative opportunities including three live music collaborations within the production and presentation of an amazing range of groundbreaking work. From the creation of “Shadowbox” as part of the Violins of Hope Project with the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage to our spectacular production of Carmina Burana
