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
Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels Company & School brings to life the passionate and dynamic work of women of color who revolutionized the 1920s─1950s jazz era in Legendary Ladies of Jazz, a dance concert celebrating female vocalists and muscians who changed the tenor and tone of Jazz music and paved the way for female muscians going forward. The inspiring and spirited concert takes place at Playhouse Square’s … Continue reading Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels Company to Honor Legendary Ladies of Jazz
By Steve Sucato The first large-scale citywide arts event since the global pandemic hit, The City is Our Stage on Saturday, August 15 from 1-6 p.m., is a tapas-crawl-style drive-to sampler of a variety of local music, theater, poetry, dance, and circus performers’ work throughout greater Cleveland neighborhoods. The brainchild of nationally known lighting and production designer Trad A. Burns, MorrisonDance founder/director Sarah Morrison and … Continue reading The Stages are set this Weekend for ‘The City is Our Stage’, a Live Performance Arts Tour of Cleveland
By Michelle Tabnick The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company announces a first-time, long-distance collaboration with Dancing Wheels, our nation’s first professional physically integrated dance company led by wheelchair dance master, Mary Verdi Fletcher, to serve students with multiple disabilities at the A Harry Moore Laboratory School. The A Harry Moore School is one of a few public schools in New Jersey serving mostly low-income students with … Continue reading Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Dancing Wheels ZOOM into the classroom, bringing students with disabilities a new option to dance
By Steve Sucato It takes a special person to one day pick up and move to another country and culture to pursue a career in a field they know little about. The Dancing Wheels Company’s Celina Speck is one such person. The 23-year-old from Würenlos, Switzerland, a suburb of Zürich, says before she decided to come to Cleveland, a place she had never been, she … Continue reading Dancing Wheels’ Swiss-Miss Celina Speck has sights set on being an Ambassador for Inclusivity in Dance
By Steve Sucato The COVID-19 Global Pandemic has touched all of our lives in one way or another and the world will never be the same because of it. That holds true for Northeast Ohio’s dance troupes. Like many adhering to Ohio’s stay at home orders, these troupes and their employees have suffered devastating losses of their life-blood income from performances, outreach programs and teaching … Continue reading Northeast Ohio Dance Troupes Soldier On During The Global Pandemic But They Need Your Help
The Dancing Wheels Company has teamed up with Jeremy James and Mix 97.1 to host a city-wide virtual “Dancing Wheels DisDance Party” to be held in your own space on Thursday, April 30 at 3:30 p.m. FIRST: Learn a simple and easy dance for all abilities to the song “Dancing in the Street” by David Bowie & Mick Jagger as demonstrated by Dancing Wheels company … Continue reading Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels and Radio Station Mix 97.1 Join Forces for Community Virtual Dance Party on April 30
By Steve Sucato With the popularity of recent movies and television shows taking familiar storybook characters and inventing new storylines such as Hansel & Gretel being witch hunters and Peter Pan being an evil lad looking to harvest the “heart of the truest believer” on the TV series Once Upon a Time, it was only a matter of time before the dance world got onboard … Continue reading Ballet Legato’s Debut Production a Bold Take on a Familiar Storybook Character
By Steve Sucato Quite possibly the first dance production of its kind in the United States, Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels, America’s oldest physically integrated dance company (dancers with and without disabilities), will present Reverse.Reboot.Reveal! featuring a trio of commissioned works by a trio of choreographers with disabilities. The program, Friday, June 14 at Playhouse Square’s Allen Theatre will also coincide with the national Dance/USA Conference being … Continue reading Integrated First: Dancing Wheels’ Program to Highlight Works by Choreographers with Disabilities
By Steve Sucato After a successful New York debut of their program Past, Present and Future of Integrated Dance at Ailey Citigroup Theater in October, Cleveland’s Dancing Wheels brings a modified version of it to The Breen Center for the Performing Arts at Saint Ignatius High School on Saturday, November 4. Hailed as “…remarkable …a company of first-rate trained dancers with and without disabilities” by New York dance critic … Continue reading Dancing Wheels Brings Successful New York Program That Includes New David Dorfman Work Home to Cleveland
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