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 Matthew Saggiomo (he/they) grew up in the small town of Sayre, Pennsylvania where he began his dance training at age 6 in several styles. At 18, he continued his dance training at Elite Danceworx in Ontario, Canada under Dawn Rappitt. Matthew then attended Point Park University where he earned
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
Photos from GroundWorks DanceTheater's reception paying tribute to its longtime retiring lighting designer Dennis Dugan on Friday, September 30, 2022 at Playhouse Square's Outcalt Theatre. A Thank you video was shown during intermission at all performances of GroundWorks' Fall Performance Series 2022. All photos by Steve Sucato.
By Steve Sucato A native of Columbus Grove, Ohio, Morgan Ashley began her dance training in the second grade at a local Cheer Dance studio. By the sixth grade, Morgan began attending dance competitions and continued those through high school. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance from Kent
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
By Steve Sucato A native of Scottsdale, Arizona, Ahna Bonnette began her dance training at Dance Connection Scottsdale. She later taught at and set solo competition dances for the studio. At 18, she attended SUNY Purchase for a year before leaving to explore a career in concert dance. In 2021, she traveled
By Steve Sucato On June 14, 2022, Joan Meggitt was named Groundworks DanceTheater’s new Education Director. Meggitt follows in the dance steps of longtime Education & Community Engagement Director, Rebecca Burcher who made significant strides in GroundWorks’s education and community programming as well as helping to shape GroundWorks’s inclusion policies. Originally from
By Steve Sucato You could say Rena Butler has reached a tipping point in her career. The former dancer with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Kyle Abraham/A.I.M, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, and most recently Gibney Dance, has reached a point in her freelance choreographic career where making dance works is now her
