Elstad Auditorium of Gallaudet University, Washington DC

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John Giffin and Jeanine Thompson are pleased to announce that their latest co-created dance theater work The Dream Dancer will be presented for 6 performances in Washington D.C. In July. They appear as part of the Capital Fringe Festival 2017 at the beautiful Elstad Auditorium at Gallaudet University. The Dream Dancer tells a time traveling tale of mystery, mesmerism and psychic revenge. It is based on true accounts of women performing under the influence of hypnosis. It is also a story of women’s uprising against male patriarchal oppression. The work was debuted in concert with the Columbus Moving Company at the Garden Theater in Sept. 2016.

Inlet Dance Theatre returns for its annual FREE concert at Cain Park Evans Amphitheater featuring the students of the company’s Summer Dance Intensive and the Inlet Trainee & Apprentice Program. Select company members will premiere new works on the students and the company will perform selections from its active repertory in this community favorite annual event.

Using the human body as a medium of expression, the company creates awe inducing shapes that push the imagination to the extreme. The National Day of Dance in July will kick off with a creative performance of audience favorite, “Shadowland” which will take audience members on a dream-like adventure. Pilobolus collaborates with a diverse range of artists – including the MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Art Spiegelman, OK Go, Radiolab, and many others – to make inventive, athletic, witty, collaborative performance works on stage and screen. They have performed in over 64 countries and received the Berlin Critic’s Prize, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement in choreography, and a TED Fellowship for performing a TED Talk in 2005 among others. In recent years, Pilobolus has become an international entertainment brand with commercials (Mobil, Ford and Toyota); music videos (nominated for a 2012 Grammy Award); appearances on the 79th Annual Academy Awards, Oprah Winfrey Show and Conan O’Brien show and more!

Tickets at 216-241-6000 or dancecleveland.org after May 11th.

Allen Theatre, Playhouse Square An Award-winning artist originally from Wilmington, Delaware; Raphael Xavier is a Hip-Hop dancer and Breaking practioner that has been honing his craft since 1983. Xavier’s understanding of movement and musicality allows him to structure beats, noises and sounds into captivating music that draws upon emotion and coincides with his choreography. As an active alumnus of the world-renown Hip Hop Dance Company, Rennie Harris Pure-movement, his solo and ensemble choreographic dance works have been performed world-wide. Xavier has been awarded numerous accolades including a 2013 Pew Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellow in 2014 and most recently a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow- ship for Choreography.
Tickets at 216-241-6000 or dancecleveland.org after May 11th.

Set to Max Richter’s version of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons,” the company will perform “Torrent”, a lush piece full of movement that sends the dancers soaring across the stage. The American Dance Institute has commissioned his recent production, Wilderness, with a NY premiere at The Kitchen in June 2016. Brooks’ choreography was last seen in Cleveland as part of “Wendy Whelan Restless Creature” in 2015.

Tickets at 216-241-6000 or dancecleveland.org after May 11th.

Inlet performs in a free concert in Tremont’s Lincoln Park as part of the annual Arts in August. The evening will begin with a creative movement class with performance improvisation for kids of all ages on stage.

KMP Artists & OhioDance will produce independent dance showcases to coincide with the Arts Midwest Conference in Columbus, Ohio in August 2017. Showcases will be promoted to approximately 1,000 attendees who are working professionals in the field of performing arts from at least 15 states in the Midwest. These showcases will be open to the public.
More information coming soon.