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March, 2017
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April showers are bringing more than just May flowers for Inlet! This month has been blooming with world premieres, new educational residencies, exciting event services, and more!
In this issue, you will start off reading of all the educational residencies Inlet is currently participating in. Connecting with Pre-K all the way to senior citizens, Inlet is all over Cleveland Northeast Ohio this month.
Of course, there are upcoming announcements and performances so you'll know where to see Inlet through the spring and summer. If you want to be involved with Inlet, it's still not too late to register for Inlet's
Summer Dance Intensive '17 or, if you're 18 or older, for the
AUDITIONS.
Make sure to stay tuned as we have exciting announcements coming in the very near future! Keep checking the
Save the Date column for calendar information and as always, thanks for staying current with Inlet Dance Theatre.
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April Recap
This season, Inlet has been blessed with multiple educational residencies all over Ohio. Three of those residencies are new to us and we're thrilled to continue the connections for many years to come.
CINCINNATI
April 4-29, Inlet's Joshua Brown has been the Artist-in-Residency in Cincinnati at the
Kennedy Heights Arts Center, funded by the
Ohio Arts Council. During the residency, Joshua collaborated with a wide range of participants engaging in movement, building new relationships, and emphasizing new appreciation and understanding of modern dance. Josh is exposing the dance making process to the community he is serving. One of the primary goals of Kennedy Heights Arts Center is to help build confidence in the participants, and to encourage their expression through dance and movement. Dance can be a means to developing self discipline, teamwork, body awareness, physical fitness and self confidence. The residency will conclude after a culminating performance where Inlet's Dominic Moore-Dunson will join Joshua Brown, performing alongside the students of the residency.
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Inlet's Joshua Brown in conversation with the K-3 class at
Kennedy Heights Arts Center. |
NEWTON D. BAKER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Throughout April & May Inlet has started a new residency program at the
Newton D. Baker School of Arts in the Kamm's Corner community. This residency includes in-school programming that addresses students in Kindergarten all the way through 8th grade. Each class learns from Inlet's Michelle Sipes and Katie McGaha during their hour long connection. Curriculum exposes the children to their body as an instrument of expression, how to properly warm the body up, moving as an ensemble, problem solving skills, and more. In addition to the in-school program, Inlet's Elizabeth Pollert and Emily Stonecipher are conducting an after-school program to students Grades 4 through 8. The after school program students will perform alongside children from other Inlet programs at
Cleveland Public Theatre in Inlet Dance Theatre's DanceWorks' 17 Educational Matinee on Saturday, May 20.
Inlet is thrilled to be a part of the residency this year. Inlet was originally connected to Principal Wendy Rose-Geiling through
The Music Settlement
, as she was looking for more residency partners to bring in music and dance to the schools. Then, after this residency is done in May, we have plans to meet with Principal Geiling to evaluate the residency, and makes plans for the following school year. Next year, Inlet hopes to teach 1 full day per week (9:00am--3:40pm), plus an after-school program (3:40pm--5:30pm), throughout the entire school year.
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| Inlet's Michelle Sipes leading the elementary students at Newton D. Baker in the "Outreach Warmup." |
JUDSON MANOR/UNIVERSITY CIRCLE
For the months of
March, April & May
, Inlet is interviewing, holding discussion, and developing ideas and material from and with the residents at Judson Manor Retirement Community in Cleveland. The
Ohio Arts Council
granted Inlet Dance Theatre a
Creative Aging Ohio Initiative project grant.
This initiative allows Inlet to involve Judson residents in the dance making process; Judson residents are collaborating with Inlet to create a new work, "Building CLE", that will premiere at
Cleveland Public Theatre's DanceWorks '17
May 18-20
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he Creative Aging Ohio initiative
creates and expands programs that engage older adults in the visual arts, dance, music, writing, and theatre. The initiative's goal is to help older adults-many of whom may live with degenerative conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia, or suffer from isolation and loneliness-age more healthfully and renew their purpose and talents through the arts.
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| Interviews with residents of Judson Manor. |
EARLY CHILDHOOD
In addition to all of these new residencies, Inlet began the second session of the
Early Learning Initiative program offered by
The Music Settlement. This session is being held at the
BOP STOP in Ohio City. In all, Inlet will perform 40 connections with early childhood centers throughout NE Ohio. These connections include a sneak peak performance of Inlet's commissioned work "What Do You Do With An Idea?" (a New York Times bestseller, written by Kobi Yamada) that will premiere at Playhouse Square in the 2017-2018 season. Then, the Pre-K students participate in various improvisational exercises that teach expression, creativity, while developing gross motor skills, and more!
These offerings have proven to sow seeds of a life-long interest in music, movement, and creative self-expression in thousands of children.
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Inlet's Joshua Brown & Katie McGaha involve early childhood children in the
Inlet Outreach Warmup at the BOP STOP in Cleveland. |
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Inlet at Cleveland Public Theatre
TEST FLIGHT
Inlet is excited to support and co-sponsor Company Member & Rehearsal Coordinator Dominic Moore-Dunson's
The "Black Card" Project that he is creating in collaboration with Company Member Kevin Parker. This show, centers on the life of the young character, Artie Alvin Beaty III (played by the 2 male performers), and examines the African-American ideal of the "Black Card." Seen through a single school day, the main character soon discovers where "blackness" comes from and how to attain it.
The showing of the first 40 minutes of this new work premiered
April 20-22 as part of
CPT's Test Flight Series. The goal of Test Flight is to support new work by local, national, and international artists. In this series, CPT provides: 1) The James Levin Theatre 2) Basic production staff, stage management, box office support 3) Marketing and advertising support. The artists provide the rest! The writers, directors, actors and designers selected for Test Flight dedicate themselves to creating new and original work, or stretching their artistic powers by working in new disciplines.
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Inlet's Dominic Moore-Dunson & Kevin Parker in a rehearsal shot of
The "Black Card" Project, which premiered Apr. 20-22. |
STATION HOPE
On
April 29
, Company Member Katie McGaha will perform the solo "Getting to Zero: a survivor's tale" and Company Member Kevin Parker will perform "Soon I Will Be Done" at Cleveland Public Theatre's Station Hope 2017, an annual event that take place at St. John's Episcopal Church in Ohio City.
Over 250 artists from across Northeast Ohio inhabit historic St. John's Episcopal Church-Cleveland's first authenticated Underground Railroad site and a beacon of freedom symbolizing the city's social justice heritage. Station Hope celebrates hope and addresses many of the most important issues of our time through powerful theatre, spoken word, dance, music and multimedia performances inspired by contemporary issues of freedom and justice. Audiences are invited to explore the historic buildings and surrounding grounds while visual art installations, choir performances and other interactive activities set the atmosphere around the church. Tickets to this event are FREE, so come out, support, and enjoy what makes Cleveland special.
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"Getting to Zero"
Photo Credit: Suzanne Sherbundy |
DANCE WORKS
Inlet will once again be performing as part of
Cleveland Public Theatre's DanceWorks '17
. This concert themed,
SPRINGING FORTH WITH NEW LIFE,
features 3 premieres and, for the first time, presents a company member's choreography. The concert's theme
metaphorically
represents Inlet
welcoming the season of new life and renaissance of our beloved CLE. Inlet Dance Theatre, now in its 16th season, is experiencing a parallel trajectory. Inlet's recent rapid growth is providing us with challenging and exciting opportunities to live out our mission of using dance to further people in communities beyond our own.
We are privileged to be able to reflect on and explore current social contexts and injustices through our art. This year's concert features three new works and presents a work of one of our company members, all of which tackle distinctive and diverse subject matter. The DanceWorks' 17 premier
es include a collaboration with the residents of the Judson Manor retirement community, created with support from Ohio Art Council's Creative Aging Ohio program. Other new works include a duet focusing on the need for mentoring relationships in our society and a group work looking at the ancient cultural practice of wearing sackcloth and ashes. Also, as a first for the company, this concert will include an autobiographical quartet piece choreographed by one the company members, Dominic Moore-Dunson, Even There, You Lead Me.
Each year, Cleveland Public Theatre welcomes Northeast Ohio's most adventurous contemporary dance companies to the Gordon Square Theatre stage for five weeks of single and double bill performances. This year, each performance will take place in t
he newly-renovated James Levin Theatre, a fully ADA-accessible featuring a newly-installed patron elevator and the addition of gender-neutral, wheelchair-accessible restrooms. You can find TICKETS here!
WHEN: May 18, - May 20 at 7:30PM
WHERE: Cleveland Public Theatre's James Levin Theatre
TICKETS: $12-30
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Promotional image for Inlet's upcoming Dance Works concerts at CPT
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| A sneak peak of the premiering duet "Walk With Me," with Dominic Moore-Dunson and Joshua Brown. |
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Upcoming Events & Performances
April 30
, Inlet will be involved with the
Slavic Village
Completion parade honoring the newly reconstructed streetscape on Fleet Avenue, in conjunction with Polish Constitution Day.
Fleet Avenue/E65th District is an excellent area for shops and businesses to locate.
Fleet Avenue has lo
ng been known as the place to go for quality ethnic foods such as fresh and smoked meats, delectable breads and pastries, and imported staples and exotic foods. And you'll find traditional and ethnic restaurants with great food at reasonable prices. With a distinctive "village" feel. Fleet Avenue is also home to numerous shops and commercial businesses that serve local residents and businesses as well as those outside of the Slavic Village area.
On
June 3, Inlet will perform at the annual
Cleveland Playhouse Benefit themed "Grand Illusion: A Magical Odyssey."
Event Co-Chairs
Rick Knapp
and
Kathy Hogg
host the event alongside Cleveland Playhouse. G
uests, with the help of Inlet performers, will be taken on a journey through the transformed Allen Theatre to exotic locales lush with theatrical magic. This is absolutely one night you will not want to miss.
Proceeds from Grand Illusion will help to support CPH's nationally recognized artistic productions and groundbreaking educational programming, which reaches over 27,000 students, pre-K through college, from Northeast Ohio and the surrounding states.
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Promo photoshoot of Inlet's Katie McGaha and Kevin Parker for the "Grand Illusion: A Magical Illusion" benefit.
Photo by: Thom Sivo |
Inlet is always excited about
participating
in
Cleveland Museum of Art's
FREE signature summer event in Greater Cleveland,
Parade the Circle
. University Circle comes alive with color, music, and art for all ages. International and national guest artists join Greater Cleveland artists, families, schools, and community groups in a spectacular display of bright costumes, giant puppets, stilt dancers, handmade masks, and colorful floats. Parade the Circle is Saturday, June 10, rain or shine!
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| Image captured from Parade the Circle, 2016. |
"Lose Your Marbles," a new dance-centric fringe festival, is coming to downtown Akron,
June 9-10.
Presented by Neos Dance Theatre with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge, the fringe festival takes its name from Akron's legacy as the birthplace of toy marble-making automation. Inlet's Katie McGaha and Kevin Parker will be performing the duet "10, Reimagined" on June 10. TICKETS will soon be available.
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| Inlet's Michelle Sipes and Joshua Brown premiering "10, Reimagined" at Cleveland Public Theatre, 2015. |
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Audition Notice
AUDITIONS
Attention:
Male and Female Dancers 18 & up
For:
Trainee, Protégé, Apprentice and Company B positions
Where:
PlayhouseSquare's Idea Center
June 14-16,
Inlet Dance Theatre will be holding
Auditions
for the upcoming 2017-2018 season. Inlet is looking for teachable professionals and students who are willing to assimilate into our organizational culture and aesthetic. Inlet is a modern dance company that employs a collaborative creative choreographic process alongside a technical base grounded in Hawkins-based release technique, Pilobolus-based nontraditional partnering, and a collaborative creative process that relies on improvisation skills. Inlet is equally strong in education programming as it is in performing concert and special event work. The company seeks highly skilled dance artists with a desire to educate as well as perform
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Inlet employs a "get to know you" approach to auditions. We are looking to determine fit with Inlet's culture and aesthetic, as well as create an opportunity for you to see if Inlet's programming and culture is a good fit for you. There is no need to prepare a solo for the audition, as the Company Members will lead you through the various components of the audition.
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| "Create" at Arts in August in Tremont, OH. |
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2017 Summer Dance Intensive
Beginning every June, Inlet Dance Theatre hosts a modern dance instructional camp for dance students focusing our efforts on serving the community. Inlet's Summer Dance Intensive (SDI) is an aggressive six and a half week training program for ages twelve through young adult. SDI focuses on increasing technical skill sets, collaborative creative process, performing improvisation and repertory. SDI allows students to experience being a dancer in a professional dance company. SDI students will learn nontraditional partnering, Hawkins-based release technique, performance improvisation, composition, and repertory. SDI culminates with performances at Cain Park Evans Amphitheater (Cleveland Heights, OH).
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SDI '16 at the 2.5 Week Culminating Performance, PlayhouseSquare.
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Inlet's 2016 Community Connections
Each season, Inlet partakes in different connections all over the city that allow students to learn, create, and experience dance. Some of these residencies have been in place for many years, others are brand new this season. Below is a breakdown of where Inlet teaches throughout the year AND how you or your student can get involved.
The Music Settlement -
As Inlet is an affiliate of The Music Settlement, we offer Teen/Adult classes in Modern technique, as well as Improvisation and Nontraditional Partnering on Monday and Thursday evenings, as well as children's level classes on Saturdays.
When: Monday & Thursday 5:30pm-8:30pm (Teen/Adult), Saturdays 11:30am-1:15pm (Children's levels)
Where:
The Music Settlement's Early Childhood Building, Rm EC-151 Dance Studio
**For more information or to register, click here!
Inlet Trainee & Apprentice Program - Each week the members of the Inlet Trainee & Apprentice Program have their own classes taught by various Inlet Company Members in Ballet, Hawkins-based Release Technique, Performance Improvisation, Repertory, and Nontraditional Partnering. These classes are taught at the professional level, but are open to the public. Classes are only $15.
When: Tuesdays 12:00pm-3:30pm and Thursdays 10:00am-2:00pm
Where: Cleveland Masonic Auditorium, 3rd floor
Dance Explorers -
This introduction to dance is designed to give children well-rounded and developmentally appropriate training. Modern dance techniques with simple coordination, rhythm, and creative problem solving instructions encourage students to explore space, movement, and have fun with dance exercises. For this specific class, acceptance is offered to current Music Settlement Pre-K & Kindergarten Early Childhood students.
Lillian and Betty Ratner School -
Students at the Lillian and Betty Ratner School are offered an after-school dance program with Inlet dancers Dominic Moore-Dunson and Kevin Parker learning technique, Performance Improvisation, and the Inlet's unique dance making process. At the end of each semester, the students perform in culminating concerts for their schoolmates, friends, and family. Performances will include the exercises they've learned throughout the semester and a choreographed dance they collaboratively created from those exercises!
Newton D. Baker Elementary School - Starting this year, Inlet will now be involved with both in-school and after-school student connections at the Newton D. Baker Elementary School in Kamm's Corner. On Tuesdays, from 9:10am-3:40pm, lead instructors Michelle Sipes and Katie McGaha will lead students of grades Kindergarten through 8th grade in improvisational exercises, as well as Non-Traditional Partnering. Also, from 3:45pm-5:40pm, lead instructors Emily Stonecipher and Elizabeth Pollert will lead after-school classes in the same techniques.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland - Inlet Company Members Dominic Moore-Dunson and Kevin Parker will be teaching for Boys & Girls Club kids Mar-May in the dance studios at Playhouse Square and the Idea Center. Sign up for this upcoming free opportunity at a local Boys & Girls Club.
Judson Manor - Inlet Members Erin Pennebaker, Joshua Brown, Dominic Moore-Dunson, along side Exec/Artistic Director Bill Wade meet every Tuesday and Thursday at Judson Manor in Cleveland. From 2:00pm-4:00pm, the residents and Inlet discuss personal memories, Cleveland history, and more all used to create a new work that Inlet will premiere at Cleveland Public Theatre's DanceWorks '17.
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Inlet Around T
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| Joshua Brown teaching the Adult Class at Kennedy Heights Arts Center, April, 2016. |
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| Joshua Brown teaching Grades 4-6 at Kennedy Heights Arts Center, April, 2017. |
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| The Teen Class practicing Stationary Line Improvisation at Kennedy Heights Arts Center, April, 2017. |
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| Newton D. Baker School of Arts elementary students being lead through the "Mirror Game" with Inlet's Katie McGaha. |
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| A fun moment during "Sculpture Garden" from one of the Newton D. Baker School of Arts elementary students. |
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Inlet's Kevin Parker for "Grand Illusion: A Magical Odyssey," The Cleveland Playhouse 2017 Benefit, June 3.
Photo: Thom Sivo |
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Inlet's Katie McGaha for "Grand Illusion: A Magical Odyssey," The Cleveland Playhouse 2017 Benefit, June 3.
Photo: Thom Sivo |
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Save the Date!
February - May
The spring session of weekly dance classes at The Music Settlement for all ages! Click
here
for more info.
Mar - May
Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland dance program at Playhouse Square
April 4-April 29
Inlet's Josh Brown will be an OAC Artist in Residence at Kennedy Heights Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH).
April 20-22
Inlet's Dominic Moore-Dunson premieres
"The Black Card Project" at Cleveland Public Theatre's Test Fight '17.
April 24 - 29
Inlet's Dominic Moore-Dunson and Exec/Art Dir, Bill Wade, join Josh Brown for the last week of the month long OAC Artist in Residence program at Kennedy Heights Arts Center (Cincinnati, OH) in order to assist with that community's culminating performance and to share a new work in progress in order to garner community feedback about the work.
April 29
Inlet's Katie McGaha & Kevin Parker will perform as part of Cleveland Public Theatre's annual Station Hope.
April 30
Inlet will participate in the Slavic Village Celebration Festival
May 18-20
Inlet premieres numerous new works as part of Cleveland Public Theatre's DanceWorks 17 series.
June 3
Inlet will once again perform throughout the evening for Cleveland Playhouse's annual benefit, this year themed "Grand Illusion: A Magical Odyssey."
June 10
Inlet will perform in the annual Parade the Circle in Univ. Circle. Rain or shine!
June 10
Inlet's Katie McGaha & Kevin Parker will perform at the "Lose Your Marbles" Fringe Festival in Akron, OH.
June 10-17
Bill Wade, Dominic Moore-Dunson, and Joshua Brown will perform and guest teach at Ad Deum Dance Company's Summer Intensive (Houston, TX)
COMPANY AUDITIONS
(contact Inlet's office for more info)
June 14 - July 28
Summer Dance Intensive at Playhouse Square
July 26 & 27
Inlet's annual free concerts at Cain Park Evans Amphitheater
Aug 11
Inlet performs in Tremont's Lincoln Park as part of Arts in August (free)
Aug 23-27
The first 40minutes of
The "Black Card" Project performs as part of Bell House Arts' Dance Exchange (Tulsa, OK)
More to come.....
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Just follow this link. Many thanks!
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Supported by:
Leonard Krieger Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
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About Us
Inlet Dance Theatre is one of the region's most exciting professional modern dance companies. Founded in 2001 by Artistic Director Bill Wade, Inlet embodies his longstanding belief that dance viewing, training and performing experiences serve as tools to bring about personal growth and development. Inlet's collaborative artistic and administrative staff builds the company's solid reputation for community engagement by uplifting individuals and engaging new audiences via
performances and
education programming.
Inlet Dance Theatre's concerts, special events, Inflow and Outflow education programs began as local initiatives and now reach regional, national and international markets. Inlet's diverse base of work includes concerts such as part of Cleveland Public Theatre's DanceWorks series, PlayhouseSquare's LAUNCH initiative and Dance Showcse, and includes international exchanges to Easter Island (a commonwealth of Chile) and participation in the Cleveland Foundation's Creative Fusion International Artist Exchange Program. Inlet's education programming includes teaching dance in our rehearsal studio, our classes at the Music Settlement, attracting students from as far away as Central America, Europe, and Israel to our Summer Dance Intensive, and conducting residencies throughout Ohio as part of the Ohio Arts Council's Artist in Residence Program. In contrast to an industry where people are often used to further dance, Inlet Dance Theatre is committed to using dance to further people. Discover for yourself what makes Inlet unique. Contact us at [email protected] or call 216-721-8580 |
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