Friday, December 12, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:53AMThursday, October 23, 2014
"The Ashley Bouder Project" coming to Playhouse Square Saturday, courtesy of Ballet in Cleveland, seeks both to educate and entertain.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:53PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:10AMWednesday, September 3, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:59AMFriday, August 1, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:29AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:42AMSunday, July 13, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:21PMFriday, June 13, 2014
All the connotations of "summer" also apply to GroundWorks DanceTheater's 'Summer Series," now playing at Cain Park: fresh, light and thoroughly enjoyable.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 10:43AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:42AMMonday, June 9, 2014
In planning his group's "Summer Series," GroundWorks Dance Theatre founder David Shimotakahara drew more than the usual amount of inspiration from music.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:22AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:31AMWednesday, May 14, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:37AMMonday, April 14, 2014
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.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:42AMMonday, March 10, 2014
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…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:49AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Between the four works on the Trisha Brown Dance Company's program Saturday night, patrons new and old will gain an appreciation for just how broad and diverse was Brown's output.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 08:18AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
There's a method to what may look like madness in Rosie Herrera's new "House Broken," her new work for GroundWorks DanceTheater: a keen ambition to expose, explore and debunk mista…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMMonday, February 10, 2014
Inspired by the similarities between animals and humans, Inlet Dance Theatre built a dance for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History celebrating the fabulous behaviors performed by all spe…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:51AMWednesday, January 29, 2014
DanceCleveland will partner with New York choreographer Camille Brown to create a new work following the receipt of a 2014 Joyce Award.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 01:43PMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Dancers with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - appearing in Cleveland this week - aren't just permitted to dance elsewhere. They're encouraged to.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMFriday, November 8, 2013
With legendary choreographer Paul Taylor, the art of his company imitates life more than most. And the program coming to PlayhouseSquare represents his primary interests and key artistic pri…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMThursday, October 24, 2013
Unlike many modern-dance troupes, which perform the work of a single choreographer, the GroundWorks prides itself on its ability to realize any and all creations, no matter how dissimilar.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 03:00PMThursday, October 3, 2013
Though flawed in spots, and freewheeling in its use of Tchaikovsky’s music, the lavish production of "Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance" by Matthew Bourne is a spectacle that’s…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 02:00PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
A blend of modern dance, Indian classical dance, classical ballet and live music, all of it from Northeast Ohio, this year’s Dance Showcase at PlayhouseSquare represents the ideal of diver…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 09:00AMThursday, June 20, 2013
The time has come for the orchestra to act more boldly to preserve the sanctity of its core product, the concert experience.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 11:29AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Appearances at neighborhood businesses have attracted capacity crowds, and visits by musicians to local schools have reached perhaps hundreds of children.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:00PMThursday, October 18, 2012
Citing scheduling difficulties, the Cleveland Orchestra said will not take part in this summer's New York’s Lincoln Center Festival.
around a proposed staging of Hindemith’s “Cardil…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:03PMFriday, October 12, 2012
From a long-running friendship between composer Stephen Paulus and concertmaster William Preucil to the obvious spark between the Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, Thursd…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:03PMSunday, September 23, 2012
Artists all over Northeast Ohio are figuring out how to use Kickstarter to fund creative projects and interact directly with a community interested in their work.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Cleveland-born John Morris Russell is one of the most well-rounded conductors in the field and the leader of the Blossom Festival Orchestra's season finale this weekend. Russell, who grew up…
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 12:43PMSunday, August 26, 2012
I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for my musical parents, who implanted in me a respect for the arts that later blossomed into a genuine love.
SOURCE: Cleveland.com at 06:00AM 
