By Steve Sucato Since arriving at GroundWorks DanceTheater in 2018, Nicole Hennington has left an indelible mark on the company and its audiences. The versatile dancer has originated memorable roles in such works as GroundWorks Executive Artistic Director David Shimotakahara’s Sud Buster’s Dream and Jigsaw, James Gregg’s éveillé, Brian Brooks’ Unwritten and
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 First season company dancer Teagan Reed (they/them) is a St. Petersburg, Florida native and started training and competing in Scottish Highland dance at age 12. Tea then trained in ballet at the Patricia Ann Dance Studio, attended the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and The Hubbard Street Professional Program in
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 As part of The National Center for Choreography at The University of Akron’s Ideas in Motion: 21st Century Dance Practices capsule series and research residency, choreographer Ashwini Ramaswamy worked with GroundWorks DanceTheater’s dancers in a creative exploration session on March 17 at Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre &
GroundWorks DanceTheater dancers, staff, board members and this year's It Takes Two! celebrity dancers got together for a meet and greet on Thursday, April 7 at Cleveland's Saucy Brew Works. The annual launch party was an opportunity for GroundWorks' dancers and
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
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
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
