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Dance Reviews 2026, DANCECleveland

YY Dance’s Cleveland Debut Left The Audience Clamoring For More [REVIEW]

YY Dance CompanyMimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse SquareCleveland, OhioApril 25, 2026 By Steve Sucato DanceCleveland’s 69th season came to a satisfying close Saturday night at Playhouse Square’s Mimi Ohio Theatre with the Northeast Ohio debut of YY Dance Company. The spellbinding performance by the New York-based troupe, established in 2018 by Chinese American dancer-choreographer Yue Yin, was part of the company’s very first domestic tour, … Continue reading YY Dance’s Cleveland Debut Left The Audience Clamoring For More [REVIEW]

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Dance Reviews, DANCECleveland

Graham Dance Company Triumphs in 100th Anniversary Tour Performance [REVIEW]

By Steve Sucato A full house of enthusiastic dance fans welcomed the Martha Graham Dance Company back to Cleveland Saturday night for the first time in nearly two decades.  Presented by DANCECleveland and Playhouse Square, Graham 100, at KeyBank State Theatre, was part of the company’s worldwide 100th Anniversary Tour.  The company delighted the audience with a mixed repertory program of works spanning the company’s … Continue reading Graham Dance Company Triumphs in 100th Anniversary Tour Performance [REVIEW]

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Airings, Dance Reviews, DANCECleveland, Fjord Review

BEST OF 2025 

By Steve Sucato 2025 was a year of experimentation for me as a professional dance writer/reviewer. I launched a monthly Airings digest on my website, artsair.art, featuring select dance news, performance impressions, and upcoming event listings, and expanded my arts coverage to include more non-dance events. So, why not end the year with one more experiment, compiling best-of-2025 lists from the dance productions and dancer … Continue reading BEST OF 2025 

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Dance Reviews 2025, DANCECleveland

Hometown Hero Dianne McIntyre’s ‘In the Same Tongue’ was Superbly Spoken in Music and Dance [REVIEW]

Dianne McIntyre Group – In the Same TongueMimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse SquareCleveland, OhioNovember 15, 2025By Steve Sucato There was no place like home for Cleveland-native Dianne McIntyre on Saturday night. The 79-year-old dancer/choreographer’s eyes welled up with heartfelt appreciation when taking her bow during a lengthy and enthusiastic standing ovation for her latest dance work, In the Same Tongue. Performed by her eponymous dance … Continue reading Hometown Hero Dianne McIntyre’s ‘In the Same Tongue’ was Superbly Spoken in Music and Dance [REVIEW]

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Dance Reviews 2025

MOMIX’s Trippy ‘ALICE’ Feeds Audiences’ Heads With Wonder [REVIEW]

MOMIX – ALICEMimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse SquareCleveland, OHOctober 11, 2025 (2 & 7:30 pm)By Steve Sucato Using Lewis Carroll’s famous 1865 novel “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” as a jumping-off point, MOMIX founder Moses Pendleton’s dance version of the iconic tale appeared to follow more of the hallucinogenic inferences in Jefferson Airplane’s 1967 song “White Rabbit” along with the surrealism of Salvador Dali’s 1969 Illustrations … Continue reading MOMIX’s Trippy ‘ALICE’ Feeds Audiences’ Heads With Wonder [REVIEW]

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Monthly Dance Digest

Airings: June 2025

A monthly digest of select dance news and performance impressions, primarily from the regions I cover in Ohio, and parts of Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania. By Steve Sucato [NEWS AND NOTES] Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre announced the appointment of Nicolas Gaudreau as its new director of development. Gaudreau will begin his role on July 7, 2025, just prior to the start of PBT’s 2025-2026 season. … Continue reading Airings: June 2025

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Dance Reviews 2025, DANCECleveland

Classic Literature Meets Hip Hop in Raphael Xavier’s Brilliant ‘Skiff’ [REVIEW]

Raphael Xavier – SkiffThe John P. Murphy Foundation TheatreCuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)Cleveland, OHApril 13, 2025 By Steve Sucato Our eternal battle with Father Time was brilliantly explored in Philadelphia-based hip hop dancer/choreographer Raphael Xavier’s new work Skiff, this past Sunday at Tri-C Metro Campus’s John P. Murphy Foundation Theatre. Presented by DANCECleveland and Tri-C, Skiff was a hip hop dance theater contextualization of Ernest Hemingway’s … Continue reading Classic Literature Meets Hip Hop in Raphael Xavier’s Brilliant ‘Skiff’ [REVIEW]

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Dance Reviews, DANCECleveland

‘Diamond Jubilee’ Tour is Legendary Choreographer Twyla Tharp at her Tharpiest [REVIEW] 

Twyla Tharp Dance – Diamond Jubilee TourKeyBank State Theatre at Playhouse SquareCleveland, OHMarch 8, 2025By Steve Sucato The 21st performance of Twyla Tharp Dance’s coast-to-coast Diamond Jubilee Tour, Saturday night’s performance at Playhouse Square’s KeyBank State Theatre, was the first by the eponymous company in Cleveland in 23 years and one to cherish as it quite possibly could be its last.  One of our greatest … Continue reading ‘Diamond Jubilee’ Tour is Legendary Choreographer Twyla Tharp at her Tharpiest [REVIEW] 

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Dance Reviews, DANCECleveland

‘The Drama’ Shines a Revealing Spotlight on the Life of a Star Dancer [REVIEW]

Lloyd Knight – The DramaWestfield Insurance Theatre at Playhouse SquareCleveland, OHSunday, February 16, 2025 By Steve Sucato For his autobiographical solo dance theater piece, The Drama, Martha Graham Dance Company principal dancer Lloyd Knight created a love letter to the art form and the two most influential women in his life, his mother Yvonne and Martha Graham. While Knight shares a birthday with the latter, … Continue reading ‘The Drama’ Shines a Revealing Spotlight on the Life of a Star Dancer [REVIEW]

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