By Steve Sucato, Arts Airs
Whoever coined the phrase “bigger is better” could not have accounted for what Cleveland-based GroundWorks DanceTheater has been able to accomplish with just five dancers. In its 16th season the tiny troupe led by artistic director David
By Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer
Music is always on his mind. Lately, though, it’s been the foremost topic.
In planning his group’s “Summer Series,” GroundWorks Dance Theatre founder David Shimotakahara took all of his inspiration from music, building
By Steve Sucato, Arts Airs
Winter may have had Northeast Ohio in its icy grip, but Miami-based choreographer Rosie Hererra’s world premiere work “House Broken” did its best to warm things up at Cleveland’s Breen Center for the Performing Arts
By Kerry Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal
GroundWorks DanceTheatre will offer Akron premieres of two dances with performances at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Akron-Summit County Public Library, 60 S. High St.
One of them is After Chorus, commissioned from Israeli guest
By Zachary Lewis, The Plain Dealer
Only a small percentage of modern dance makes it to the big stage. But at one big stage in Cleveland this weekend, the new and experimental constitute 100 percent of the offerings.
That’s because GroundWorks DanceTheater
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
What a difference a century can make. A large number of the Parisians who attended the premiere of “The Rite of Spring” in May 1913 sneered and jeered at the earthy
By Kerry Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal
Forty fifth-graders twisted and curved their bodies around in a cluster on their lunchroom floor around dance educator Mark Otloski as he instructed, “Imagine yourself to be a seed in the dirt. I want you
By Mark Horning, Cleveland Fine Arts Examiner
Friday, March 22, 2013 marked the premiere Akron appearance of two GroundWorks dance numbers at the Akron-Summit County Public Library. The performance took place in the spacious street level
By Kerry Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal
GroundWorks Dance¬Theater will return to the Akron-Summit County Public Library Friday for the Akron premieres of Kate Weare’s Inamorata and artistic director David Shimotakahara’s LUNA.
The library auditorium was so booked, the modern dance company was able to schedule
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
A world of contemporary dance passes before your eyes at most performances by GroundWorks DanceTheater. The results may be abstract or narrative-driven, dance for dance’s sake, or something completely off the charts.
For its
By Mark Horning, Cleveland Fine Arts Examiner
GroundWorks DanceTheater
Breen Center for the Performing Arts
2008 West 30th Street
Cleveland, Ohio
February 16, 2013
7:30 p.m.
As I was listening to the audience leaving the Breen Center for the Performing Arts following the
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
So, what’s new with GroundWorks DanceTheater? You name it. A new residency at Cleveland State University. A new dancer. A new work.
All of these elements played key roles in the Cleveland company’s debut –
By Mark Horning, Cleveland Fine Arts Examiner
We should all go and welcome GroundWorks Dance Theater to their new home at the Allen Theatre in Playhouse Square. It is the intimate little theatre with
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
Ask David Shimotakahara something about dance or other artistic subjects and you notice he hardly takes a breath between soft-spoken thoughts.
It’s no wonder the artistic director of GroundWorks DanceTheater is in a loquacious mood these
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
The road winding through Glendale Cemetery in Akron leads to a vast meadow, where people young and old gather to celebrate life. It was in this bucolic setting that GroundWorks DanceTheater shared its
By Kerry Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal
GroundWorks DanceTheater presented a weekend of firsts Friday and Saturday at Glendale Cemetery with a program building up to the world premieres of Current Frame by Amy Miller and Brubeck by David Shimotakahara at the Heinz Poll
By Pam Barr, Heights Observer
Music is the muse of most choreographers,and David Shimotakahara is no exception. His latest work for GroundWorks Dance Theater, to premiere at Cain Park Aug. 17 through 19, was inspired by the iconic sounds of jazz master Dave
By Kerry Clawson, Akron Beacon Journal
On a cold January day, five dancers from GroundWorks Dance-Theater met with choreographer Ronen “Roni” Koresh in Akron to create a new section of a world premiere dance Koresh was making for the Cleveland company.
GroundWorks was
By Roger Durbin, West Side Leader
DOWNTOWN AKRON — The beautifully executed dance program GroundWorks DanceTheater performed in Cleveland recently will be the same one the company will bring to the Akron-Summit County Main Library Feb. 24-25 at 7:30 p.m.
Make no mistake, there
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
The members of GroundWorks DanceTheater often go far beyond the call of duty in concert. This weekend’s program of three strenuous works at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts, for example,
By Donald Rosenberg, The Plain Dealer
Israeli-born choreographer Ronen Koresh watches members of GroundWorks DanceTheater rehearse his newest work, “CoDa,” for premiere performances this weekend at the Breen Center for the Performing Arts.
Don’t expect Ronen Koresh to tell stories