For Immediate Release
Contact: Dan Kilbane, Publicist
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February 22, 2004
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE PRESENTS
DANCEWORKS 04
March 11 – April 4, 2004
Cleveland, OH – Cleveland Public Theatre’s Executive Director James Levin and Artistic Director Randy Rollison are proud to announce Danceworks 04, a festival of contemporary dance featuring seven area companies performing over a 4-week period from March11 – April 4, 2004 in CPT’s two theatres. VERB Ballets, Antaeus Dance, InLet Dance Theatre, MorrisonDance, SAFMOD, Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre, and GroundWorks Dance Theater perform imaginative and groundbreaking works that showcase Northern Ohio’s vibrant dance community. This festival-like celebration showcases performances from companies that have been described as “spectacular,” “evocative,” and “invigorating.”
Danceworks 04 performances are at 8:00 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 3:00 p.m. on Sundays. Ticket prices are $18 general admission, $15 for students and seniors. VERB Ballets is holding a Benefit for the AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland with a preview of its dance pieces on March 11 at 7:00 p.m.
The following Dance Companies perform in Gordon Square Theatre:
March 11 – March 14, 2004
March 11 Benefit for the AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland $20/person
VERB Ballets
Hernando Cortez, Artistic Director
One of “25 to Watch” in 2004
--Dance Magazine
Artistic Director Hernando Cortez continues to expand and present VERB Ballets’ repertoire of contemporary American choreographers with the Contemporary Artists Collection. This season has vibrant and thought-provoking premieres by Sean Curran and Charlotte Boye-Christensen (winner, National Choreographic Competition), as well as works by Artistic Director Hernando Cortez and David Parsons. VERB Ballets, formerly named The Cleveland Repertory Project, is one of the most exciting companies in the city. VERB Ballets discovers, collects, interprets, and stages choreography that matters to the region and to the world of dance. Their steadfast mission is to promote and foster emerging talent, present excellence in contemporary choreographers, and revive and honor modern dance classics.
March 11 Benefit for the AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland $20/person7:00 p.m.
Friday March 12, 20048:00 p.m.
Saturday March 13, 20048:00 p.m.
Sunday March 14, 20043:00 p.m.
March 19 – March 21, 2004
InLet Dance Theatre
Bill Wade, Artistic Director
“…cheers and a standing ovation from the overflow crowd…”
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
One of Cleveland’s newest companies, InLet Dance Theatre joins Danceworks 04 with playful and nontraditional pieces from choreographers Steve Rooks (former principal dancer with Martha Graham), Sally Wallace’s “Tides and Solitude,” Leilani Barrett’s “Dante’s First Night,” a partnering duet inspired by a residency at the Cleveland Sight Center titled “imPAIRed,” “B’roke,” which premiered at this season’s Food for Thought, and a new work by Artistic Director Bill Wade.
Friday March 19, 20048:00 p.m.
Saturday March 20, 20048:00 p.m.
Sunday March 21, 20043:00 p.m.
March 26 - March 28, 2004
SAFMOD
Young Park, Artistic Director
“…sheer exuberance…”
--The Toronto Star
CPT’s eclectic resident dance company returns to Gordon Square Theatre, celebrating the power of collaboration between dance, live music, visual arts, and the rhythms of urban life. SAFMOD (SubAtomic Frequency Modulation OverDose) embraces the use of inter-media improvisation and ritualistic processes to cross traditional barriers and perceptions, and to create original, interactive performances. Their piece for Danceworks 04,“Odyssey,” is a full-length work in which contemporary souls crave the simple solace of the journey back to where they belong but become frustrated by the complex and fragmented modern condition, raising the question: does the concept of home even exist? SAFMOD invites audiences to share a cathartic plunge through the convoluted terrain of today’s emotional landscape with the combination of dance, theatre, original music, poetic scripts, stilts, aerial fabric, and visual design.
Friday, March 26, 20048:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 27, 20048:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 28, 20043:00 p.m.
April 2 – April 4, 2004
GroundWorks Dancetheater
David Shimotakahara, Artistic Director
“Intelligent, fresh, invigorating…”
--The Akron Beacon Journal
Live music pairs with luscious choreography as resident Dance Company GroundWorks Dancetheater returns home to CPT. This season, GroundWorks presents the world premiere of a new work by Artistic Director David Shimotakahara, the Cleveland premiere of “At Once There Was A House” by guest choreographer Beth Corning of Dance Alloy in Pittsburgh, and the revival of Shimotakahara’s riveting solo work “Field Stone,” created in 1998 for artistic associate Amy Miller and inspired by the one act play “Not I” by Samuel Beckett. Experience what critics are calling “intelligent, fresh, invigorating” dance as GroundWorks moves ever closer to becoming one of the country’s leading contemporary dance companies. GroundWorks’ vision is to present new and vital choreography and dance-related forms of theater to the public, reach new audiences for dance in both conventional and non-traditional settings, consider economy to be a defining characteristic of the work and not a limitation, and to find ways to make the public’s experience of dance more meaningful.
Friday, April 2, 20048:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 3, 20048:00 p.m.
Sunday, April 4, 20043:00 p.m.
The following Dance Companies perform in CPT’s Upstairs Theatre:
March 12 – March 14, 2004
Antaeus Dance
Joan Meggitt, Artistic/Executive Director
“…richly detailed choreography…”
–The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Antaeus Dance returns to CPT after performing in last season’s BIG [BOX] series. Their piece, “Moments ofRepose,” is an evening-length transcendental new work created by Joan Meggitt, in collaboration with guest artist Doug Lodge, and features original music by Paul Cox and Greg D’Alessio. “Moments of Repose,” based on reclining figures, explores the intimate landscapes of the body and its expansive possibilities by dealing with movement through space as generated and fulfilled by an outside force or “unseen others.” Doug Lodge’s quirky, meditative sensibilities combine with Artistic Director Joan Meggitt’s assertive movement style in an aural landscape that shifts between subtle meditations and complex, insistent rhythms. Experience what TheCleveland Plain Dealer has called “richly detailed choreography” with Antaeus Dance’s intelligent and well-crafted work.
Friday March 12, 20048:00 p.m.
Saturday March 13, 20048:00 p.m.
Sunday March 14, 20043:00 p.m.
March 19 – March 21, 2004
MorrisonDance
Sarah Morrison, Artistic Director
“Spectacular”
--Cool Cleveland
MorrisonDance presents an inventive evening of dances. Inspired by theories of human behavior, “Human Behavior 101” is a kinetically stimulating collection of pieces that explores theories of psychology, neuroscience, and other behavioral concepts, and is performed by MorrisonDance company members, guest performers, and community volunteers. Artistic Director Sarah Morrison introduces new choreography born from her studies in neuroscience and behavioral research at Case Western Reserve University. MorrisonDance continues to push the boundaries of dance by exploring unusual presentation and rehearsal venues, by experimenting with cross-disciplinary approaches to creation and education, and by encouraging creative collaborations with other artistic media, science, nature, and technology. Through this exploration and experimentation, the company has been able to discover the power of dance as a form of communication and expression in a variety of settings, while continuing to cultivate the appreciation of traditional dance forms in conventional spaces.
Friday, March 19, 20048:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 20, 20048:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 21, 20043:00 p.m.
March 26 – March 28, 2004
Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theatre
Michael Medcalf, Artistic/Executive Director
“Impressive, lyrical, evocative.”
--The Cleveland Plain Dealer
CPT’s resident dance company presents a roster of electric and soulful dance featuring the choreography of Dianne McIntyre, Young Park, and Linda Kahn, entitled “When Women Gather.” This multicultural ensemble of African-American, Asian-American, and Jewish-American women offers a diverse perspective of their experiences as minorities in America with the visceral essence of African-American dance traditions. With what has been called “intelligent, fresh, invigorating” dance, these women present the exploration of human connections between men, women, their emotions, and conflicts within themselves. Additionally, Artistic/Executive Director Michael Medcalf choreographs “Insurrection,” a piece exploring masculine expositions from a feminine perspective.
Friday, March 26, 20048:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 27, 20048:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 28, 20043:00 p.m.
The CPT Art Pak is a great way to see Danceworks 04. Tickets are available at a discounted rate by purchasing a $60 CPT Art Pak, which contains 5 vouchers ($12 a ticket) that can be used for any performance, at any time. Tickets can be reserved in advance with your Art Pak voucher by coming to the Box Office in person, or providing the serial number on the voucher over the phone. Vouchers can be used for Danceworks 04 productions and all other CPT performances for the 2003-2004 season.
Danceworks 04 is generously supported by The Cleveland Foundation, The Codrington Foundation, The Cyrus Eaton Foundation, The George Gund Foundation, The Kulas Foundation, and many individual contributors.
Cleveland Public Theatre and its artistic and education programs are funded in part by funding from Cleveland Foundation, George Gund Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Nord Family Foundation, John P. Murphy Foundation, Kulas Foundation, Theatre Communications Group, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bruening Foundation, Codrington Foundation, Giant Eagle Foundation, Thomas White Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Lorain, Family Foundations of Jewish Community Federation, Dolphin Trust, Saint Ann Foundation, Deaconess Foundation, O’Neill Foundation, Stocker Foundation, Key Foundation, Nordson Foundation, Wolf Foundation, The Doll Family Foundation, Raymond John Wean Foundation, The Ellie Foundation, Cyrus Eaton Foundation, Forest City, Alcoa, Third Federal, Huntington National Bank, National City Bank, and other corporate and individual contributors.
The mission of Cleveland Public Theatre is to inspire, nurture, challenge, amaze, educate and empower
artists and audiences, in order to make the Cleveland Public a more conscious and compassionate community.
Please note that all programming, times and locations are subject to change.
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Production
Danceworks 04
Seven Northeast Ohio area contemporary dance companies in a 4-week festival at CPT
Performance Dates and Times
OpeningFriday, March 12, 20047:00 p.m.
ClosingSunday, April 4, 20043:00 p.m.
RunMarch 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28; April 2, 3, and 4
TimesFridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.
Sundays at 3:00 p.m.
BenefitVERB Ballets performance to support the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, Thursday, March 11, 7:00 p.m., $20/person
Ticket Prices
General Admission $18
Students and Seniors $15
“Pay What You Can” Policy
Patrons who can’t afford the regular ticket price can request a “Pay What You Can” ticket by coming to the CPT Box Office the day of the performance. There is a $1 minimum, with a maximum of a four-person party. Patrons will either be sold a ticket, or depending on demand, placed on a waiting list for tickets to be released at curtain time. “Pay What You Can” is not available for advance purchases.