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Dance Reviews 2024, DANCECleveland

VERTIGO FINDS BALANCE IN OUTSTANDING ‘MAKOM’ [REVIEW]

Vertigo Dance Company – MAKOMMimi Ohio Theatre at Playhouse Square Cleveland, OhioPresented by DANCECleveland & Playhouse SquareApril 18, 2024 By Steve Sucato Last in Cleveland in 2019, Israel’s Vertigo Dance Company returned this past Thursday to close out DANCECleveland’s 2023-2024 season with their 2022 evening-length contemporary dance work, MAKOM. Makom means “place” in Hebrew, and Playhouse Square’s Mimi Ohio Theatre was the place to experience … Continue reading VERTIGO FINDS BALANCE IN OUTSTANDING ‘MAKOM’ [REVIEW]

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Airings, Previews

Pittsburgh Dance Council 53rd Season Opens With One Of Its Strongest Productions In A Decade [PREVIEW]

By Steve Sucato After two Covid-related cancellations, Pittsburgh audiences will finally experience the U.S. premiere of contemporary flamenco artist Rocio Molina’s Caída del Cielo (Fallen from Heaven). The one-woman, full-length, multimedia dance-theater piece kicks off the Pittsburgh Dance Council’s 2023-24 season on Saturday, September 23, at the Byham Theater. In it, Molina contrasts light and darkness, celestial and savage. Accompanied by a live band, Caída del Cielo (Contains … Continue reading Pittsburgh Dance Council 53rd Season Opens With One Of Its Strongest Productions In A Decade [PREVIEW]

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Dance Reviews 2020

DANCECleveland’s Virtual Dance Festival a Soul-Nourishing Stand-In for Live Dance

Reviewed by Steve Sucato Another outcome of the global pandemic, DANCECleveland’s Dance On! Virtual Dance Festival 2020 that began Saturday, July 25 and ran for a week, replaced its planned annual in-person American Dance Festival in Cleveland (ADF in CLE). The online event treated virtual audiences to four exclusive pre-recorded dance performance videos along with virtual artist chats and a variety of differently styled dance … Continue reading DANCECleveland’s Virtual Dance Festival a Soul-Nourishing Stand-In for Live Dance

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Dance Reviews 2019

Vertigo’s ‘One, One & One’ Leaves Heads Spinning with Delight

Vertigo Dance Company – One, One & OnePlayhouse Square’s Ohio TheatreCleveland, OhioMarch 9, 2019 Reviewed by Steve Sucato The theme of the individual versus the group is nothing new in dance. Countless works have explored some aspect of it. Choreographer Noa Wertheim’s hour-long One, One & One (2017) performed by her Vertigo Dance Company Saturday night at Playhouse Square’s Ohio Theatre, however, offered up a … Continue reading Vertigo’s ‘One, One & One’ Leaves Heads Spinning with Delight

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