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Ohio Contemporary Ballet to Open 2026 Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival with Mixed Repertory Program [PREVIEW]

By Steve Sucato  Cleveland’s Ohio Contemporary Ballet (OCB) will open the 52nd Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival this weekend at Akron, Ohio’s Forest Lodge Park with a stylistically diverse mixed repertory program including a tango-inspired world premiere. The free outdoor performances will also be area audiences’ first look at new company dancer Bethany Montalvo, a native of Modesto, California who majored in Ballet Performance at … Continue reading Ohio Contemporary Ballet to Open 2026 Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival with Mixed Repertory Program [PREVIEW]

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Back to the Future: Inlet Dance Theatre Celebrates its 25th Anniversary in Two Dynamic Summer Dance Programs [PREVIEW]

By Steve Sucato Inlet Dance Theatre’s performances at Cleveland Heights’ Cain Park and Akron’s Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival last summer gave audiences a preview of the company’s 25th-anniversary season and featured works from its rich repertoire. This summer, now officially celebrating the company’s 25th anniversary, Inlet returns to Cain Park on July 25 and to the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival on August 7-8, … Continue reading Back to the Future: Inlet Dance Theatre Celebrates its 25th Anniversary in Two Dynamic Summer Dance Programs [PREVIEW]

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Inlet’s Summer Dance Offerings Look Back on the Company’s Repertoire History While Giving a Nod to the Future [PREVIEW]

By Steve Sucato Entering the penultimate season before its 25th Anniversary, Cleveland’s Inlet Dance Theatre is already looking back on its repertoire history this summer in its annual performances at Cleveland Heights’ Cain Park and at the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival in Akron.  But this summer’s offerings are not all a trip down memory lane. Thanks to Inlet’s annual Summer Dance Intensive, there will … Continue reading Inlet’s Summer Dance Offerings Look Back on the Company’s Repertoire History While Giving a Nod to the Future [PREVIEW]

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LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS RALLY TO PROVIDE GREATER ACCESSIBILITY DURING HEINZ POLL SUMMER DANCE FESTIVAL

By Kat Allen  AKRON, OH (Sept. 23, 2021) – Summit County Developmental Disabilities Board (Summit DD), Advancing Independence Network, Akron-Summit County Public Library, Direction Home Akron Canton, the City of Akron, and the team behind the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival collaborated to offer a variety of accessibility elements for this summer’s outdoor dance festival. The partners worked to develop and implement solutions focused on inclusion … Continue reading LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS RALLY TO PROVIDE GREATER ACCESSIBILITY DURING HEINZ POLL SUMMER DANCE FESTIVAL

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Of Sideshows, Photo Memories and Atoms: GroundWorks Dance Theater’s ‘Summer Series’ Promises a Carnival of Visual Delights

By Steve Sucato Childhood memories of Looney Tunes cartoons and circus sideshows provided the creative spark for GroundWorks DanceTheater artistic director/choreographer David Shimotakahara’s latest dance work, “Sud Buster’s Dream”. The animated work will make its premiere as part of GroundWorks’ season opening Summer Series program this weekend, July 19-21 at Cain Park’s Alma Theater in Cleveland Heights. The 30-minute contemporary dance work is set to an early … Continue reading Of Sideshows, Photo Memories and Atoms: GroundWorks Dance Theater’s ‘Summer Series’ Promises a Carnival of Visual Delights

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Dance Reviews 2018

Ballet Hispánico’s All-Female Choreographers Program Struck All The Right Chords

Ballet Hispánico Playhouse Square’s Ohio Theatre Cleveland, OH November 10-11, 2018 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Co-presented by DANCECleveland and Cuyahoga Community College, Ballet Hispánico’s triple-bill of works by Hispanic female choreographers struck all the right chords Saturday, November 10 at Playhouse Square’s Ohio Theatre. The New York-based company, last in Cleveland in 2009, showed its versatility and popular appeal beginning with Colombian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez … Continue reading Ballet Hispánico’s All-Female Choreographers Program Struck All The Right Chords

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New Look Groundworks Dancetheater Launches 20th Anniversary Season With Two New Dance Works On Opposite Ends Of The Stylistic Spectrum

By Steve Sucato With the retirement of longtime company members Felise Bagley and Damien Highfield plus the departure of dancer Taylor Johnson and the addition of three new dancers, Cleveland-based contemporary dance troupe GroundWorks DanceTheater is essentially a brand new company.  And after their upcoming Summer Series performances at Cain Park, July 20-22 and at Glendale Cemetery in Akron, August 3 & 4 as part … Continue reading New Look Groundworks Dancetheater Launches 20th Anniversary Season With Two New Dance Works On Opposite Ends Of The Stylistic Spectrum

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GroundWorks’ Versatile Performer Annika Sheaff Bids Adieu [Interview]

“The 33-year-old Juilliard graduate and former dancer with renowned dance company Pilobolus, brought to her dancing in GroundWorks not only solid technique, but a stage presence that drew audience eyeballs to her as if she were somehow constantly lit by an invisible spotlight. ” Continue reading GroundWorks’ Versatile Performer Annika Sheaff Bids Adieu [Interview]

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