In addition to proving again that limitations exist to be overcome, Dancing Wheels also struck gold in "Rhythm and Wheels" serving as percussionists. With former "Stomp" …
In one hour Saturday, April 25, with four choreographers, former New York City Ballet star Wendy Whelan will relive her metamorphosis and prove to the world that she, like many older balleri…
On the occasion of its sixth decade next season, the distinguished presenter of dance has announced its most expansive and arguably brilliant lineup to date. At the same time, in a festive m…
"Ballet 422," a new documentary tracing the development of a new work at New York City Ballet, opens at Cedar Lee Theatre Friday, March 13 and runs through Thursday, March 19.
Jessica Wallis, director of Ballet in Cleveland, didn't just invite anyone to headline her group's gala Friday. She asked Misty Copeland, Carlos Lopez and Michele Wiles, luminaries who boast…
Compagnie Kafig, coming to Playhouse Square Saturday on the DanceCleveland series, is a troupe of men from Brazil sporting a blend of hip-hop, Capoeira, acrobatics, and sheer physicality.
With Opera Circle's new production of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," the only person likely to be offended is the title character himself, at the end of the comic story.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland may soon regain hub status, through the medium of dance. Should the sisters behind The Movement Project realize their vision, the city could soon be a haven -- p…
No matter that some pieces on Pilobolus's program Saturday night at Playhouse Square were more potent conceptually than others. The troupe still wowed with every step.
The second of two programs this season celebrating Bach, Apollo's Fire's new "Family Frolic" program evokes the composer's home and milieu with degrees of vividness and theatricali…
Opera Per Tutti, the young opera company known for its mission of "Opera for All," announced on Friday new ambitions and a new name: Cleveland Opera Theater.
Not even Rami Be'er, the director of Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, will say definitively what his work coming to the DanceCleveland series next week is about.
"The Ashley Bouder Project" coming to Playhouse Square Saturday, courtesy of Ballet in Cleveland, seeks both to educate and entertain.
Determined to present more than the classics, Opera Per Tutti is taking the rare step of presenting a new opera: "Clarimonde," a vampire romance by Frederic Chaslin.
One of the Northeast Ohio's cultural gems, Dance Showcase is a free night of dance featuring no fewer than eight local companies, all on one stage.
Eight short works, including four premieres, made for an entertaining night with Inlet Dance Theatre at Cain Park in Cleveland Heights Thursday. Best of all, several of the dances were gems.
Motivated to revamp some of ballet's core maneuvers, Verb Ballets guest choreographer Anthony Krutzkamp crafted "Similar" in part to revamp the running and lifting that occupied hi…
The successor to legendary former Cleveland Orchestra music director George Szell, Maazel left his own major impact on the ensemble, serving as its music director from 1972 to 1982.
All the connotations of "summer" also apply to GroundWorks DanceTheater's 'Summer Series," now playing at Cain Park: fresh, light and thoroughly enjoyable.
In staging Erich Korngold's rarely heard "Die Tote Stadt" ("The Dead City") this week at Playhouse Square, Opera Circle may be making its most ambitious effort yet.
In planning his group's "Summer Series," GroundWorks Dance Theatre founder David Shimotakahara drew more than the usual amount of inspiration from music.
One of six winners statewide, Cleveland's Dancing Wheels has earned a 2014 Governor's Award for the Arts for its tireless work in the area of arts education.
Featured on the 2014-15 season of DanceCleveland will be Pilobolus, the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Pilobolus, Compagnie Kafig, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and the "Restless Creature…
Jessica Lang Dance, the young, New York-based troupe that appeared on the DanceCleveland series at Playhouse Square Saturday, looked more like three companies than merely one.
Not only did the Trisha Brown Dance Company give some remarkably lithe, lyrical performances on Saturday's DanceCleveland series concert but the pieces themselves also revealed profound trut…