Fresh off a successful tour to Cuba in March, Cleveland’s Verb Ballets travels a bit closer to home to make its debut at the University of Akron’s EJ Thomas Hall this Friday, April 27. Continue reading Verb Ballets’ ‘Spring Series’ program to feature Adam Hougland ballet
“With it being a fringe festival model we really are going to push work that lives on the fringe of what we might think of as a normal dance presentation,” says Wesner. Continue reading New Dance-centric Fringe Festival Invites Audiences to ‘Lose Their Marbles’ Over a Plethora of Dance and Performance Art
“The curated series of mostly modern and contemporary dance troupes has, long before binge-watching television shows became a thing, allowed audiences to, in a sense, binge-watch live dance.” Continue reading Cleveland Public Theatre’s 2017 DanceWorks Series to Showcase New Artists, New Works and Old Favorites
“I wanted to honor her memory while still staying true to the person she was,” says Hinton. Continue reading Verb Ballets Revisits the Work of Heinz Poll
“Workshops designed to further education in the field of choreography.”
By Jen Garlando CLEVELAND, OH- Verb Ballets’ Producing Artistic Director, Dr. Margaret Carlson is part of the American Dance Abroad U.S. Delegation attending the Internationale Tanzmesse NRW in Germany from August 31st through September 3rd. She will be working with American Dance Abroad hosting the American Corner booth, which includes fifteen U.S. organizations: Patricia Noworol Dance Theater, Eva Dean Dance, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, keila … Continue reading Verb Ballets Director selected for American Dance Abroad US Delegation at Internationale Tanzmesse NRW in Germany
If any of Poll’s signature ballets are deserving of the label “masterpiece,” “Bolero” certainly qualifies. Continue reading Verb Ballets’ Poll Tribute Faithful and First-Rate
By Cathleen O’Malley Cleveland, OH —Cleveland Public Theater’s Executive Artistic Director Raymond Bobgan is proud to present DanceWorks 2015, an annual showcase of contemporary dance. DanceWorks 2015 features six dance companies from the Northeast Ohio region, including Inlet Dance Theatre, MorrisonDance, The Movement Project, Cleveland Dance Exchange (CDX), Ohio Dance Theatre and Verb Ballets. Six companies premiere new work and revive popular performances, presented as single … Continue reading Cleveland Public Theatre presents DanceWorks 2015, April 2 – May 3
Reviewed by Steve Sucato It’s a tale of two cities when it comes to summer dance in Northeast Ohio; two marquee, municipally run performance series, one in Akron and the other in Cleveland, count for the bulk of the region’s professional dance by local and nationally touring companies. Billed as the oldest, free summer dance series in the United States, the Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival … Continue reading Northeast Ohio Summer Dance in Review
Verb Ballets DanceWorks ’14 Gordon Square Theatre at Cleveland Public Theatre Cleveland, OH May 1-3, 2014 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Cleveland-based Verb Ballets closed out Cleveland Public Theatre’s 2014 DanceWorks series with a program of two new works that harkened back to the modern dance style of its predecessor company the Repertory Project. Audiences used to Verb’s mix of classical modern dance works from Paul Taylor … Continue reading Verb Ballets’ ‘DanceWorks’ Program Out of Character
