By Steve Sucato When Groundworks DanceTheater Executive Artistic Director David Shimotakahara had the idea to turn the company’s dance film and stage production of Transcendence into an art installation at Cleveland's 78th Street Studios he turned to Akron-based filmmaker, artist, and academic Miriam Bennett. A professor of Media Arts and Filmmaking at
As a member of that captivated audience, and a part of the video, Rumzis, in her first season with the company, said of her experience working on and seeing Transcendence: “It was exciting to start off our season as a company with an extremely collaborative process. We worked
By Steve Sucato For GroundWorks DanceTheater’s very first collaboration with CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, the company has created a dance-on-video work to accompany the live performance by CityMusic musicians of composer Olivier Messiaen’s poignant masterwork, “Quatuor pour la fin du temps” (Quartet for the End of Time). The work is part
