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Dominic Moore-Dunson Awarded Career-Altering Resident Artist Fellowship at Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater [INTERVIEW]

By Steve Sucato The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) announced today, August 27, 2025, the selection of Akron-based dancer/choreographer Dominic Moore-Dunson as its 2025 Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Artist.  Moore-Dunson is an award-winning choreographer, professional dancer, producer, teaching artist, and speaker. He was a company member of Cleveland’s Inlet Dance Theatre and is the co-owner of MooreDunson Co. His previous accolades include receiving … Continue reading Dominic Moore-Dunson Awarded Career-Altering Resident Artist Fellowship at Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater [INTERVIEW]

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Drugs, Butoh and ‘Events Leading Up to My Death’

By Steve Sucato Cleveland’s longest running annual dance series DanceWorks, presented by Cleveland Public Theatre, opens the second half of its 4-week run with a double bill featuring Tremont-based Antaeus Dance and Erie, Pennsylvania’s Shen & Bones Performance Group, April 24-26 at CPT’s  Gordon Square Theatre. Antaeus Dance will open the double bill with two premieres.  Dancer/choreographer Heather Koniz’s 10-minute trio “Let My Hero In” … Continue reading Drugs, Butoh and ‘Events Leading Up to My Death’

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Dance Reviews 2013, The Plain Dealer

BalletX opens DANCECleveland season with engaging program

By Steve Sucato Special to The Plain Dealer  DANCECleveland hit a home run with its season opener of BalletX Saturday night at the University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall. The contemporary ballet troupe from Philadelphia, in its Northeast Ohio debut, presented a memorable mixed repertory program of three engaging ballets performed adroitly by its versatile dancers. To read the full review click here Continue reading BalletX opens DANCECleveland season with engaging program

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Pittsburgh City Paper

Pittsburgh’s acclaimed newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival Biggest Yet

By Steve Sucato When Kelly-Strayhorn Theater Executive Director Janera Solomon was putting together the theater’s inaugural newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival, in 2009, few dance artists outside of Pittsburgh had heard of the theater. Now, in its fifth year, the annual festival and the theater are becoming known nationally. That led to a record 40 emerging-choreographer applicants from around the country seeking to take part. “This … Continue reading Pittsburgh’s acclaimed newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival Biggest Yet

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Pittsburgh City Paper

New York-based Pittsburgh-favorite choreographer Sidra Bell reveals her latest work-in-progress

By Steve Sucato Pittsburgh’s dance community over the past several years has had a love affair with New York-based choreographers. Artists such as Nora Chipaumire, Camille A. Brown and local transplant Kyle Abraham have all established an ongoing presence here through works that have engaged and delighted local audiences and presenters. Another New Yorker whose works have frequented local stages is Sidra Bell. Bell and … Continue reading New York-based Pittsburgh-favorite choreographer Sidra Bell reveals her latest work-in-progress

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Pittsburgh City Paper

World Premiere of ‘Mash Up Body’ takes a sampling approach to dance

By Steve Sucato For her latest dance work, Mash Up Body, Philadelphia-based choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace took a page from the contemporary-music playbook. Watson-Wallace worked with the processes of sampling, remixing and layering ideas and materials to create a 45-minute multimedia performance installation. Her troupe, anonymous bodies, will premiere the show April 5 and 6 at the Alloy Studios. “It’s a meditation on identity and presentation,” says … Continue reading World Premiere of ‘Mash Up Body’ takes a sampling approach to dance

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Pittsburgh City Paper

Dance troupe explores notions of order and structure via the lives of service workers

By Steve Sucato In 2010, a JetBlue flight attendant who had argued with a passenger got fed up with his job, grabbed a beer, deployed the emergency slide and exited the plane. This well-publicized incident illustrated what a social psychologist might term a “deviation from structure.” The kind of emotional structure flight attendants and other service workers adopt for the sake of commerce is among … Continue reading Dance troupe explores notions of order and structure via the lives of service workers

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Press Releases

Pittsburgh’s Kelly Strayhorn Theater accepts applications for 2013 dance residency and performance

The Next Stage Residency, created by the Kelly Strayhorn Theater five years ago, is designed to support talented choreographers by giving them the opportunity to explore and develop new material and get feedback during a one-week creative residency that culminates with a showing at the end of that week. Choreographers are invited to submit an application to participate in the 2013 Next Stage Residency program. … Continue reading Pittsburgh’s Kelly Strayhorn Theater accepts applications for 2013 dance residency and performance

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