Dance
Experience world class modern and cultural dance that will spark your imagination.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company “Fondly Do We Hope, Fervently Do We Pray”
Saturday, January 30, 2010, 8 p.m.
Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
Continuing on his legacy of challenging, thought provoking work, Tony Award winner
Bill T. Jones presents a new, evening-length piece inspired by the life of Abraham Lincoln, celebrating the slain president’s 2009 bicentennial. Commissioned by the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois, Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray explores the choreographer’s view of Lincoln while growing up during the civil rights struggle of the 1960’s and envisions the America that might have been had the president lived to complete the Reconstruction. This dance theater work investigates the myriad meanings of Lincoln and his legacy, while heralding the lasting contributions of an American icon.
Tickets $50/$40/$30/$25
Reserved Seating
Watch a preview of Bill Moyer's interview with Bill T. Jones here
Read more on Bill Moyer's journal
Click here to read more
Read more on ohio.com
Click here to read the Cleveland PD review of this performance!
“Bill T. Jones (is) the political lion of modern dance.” – The New York Times
Co-presented with DANCECleveland
This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Ohio Arts Council, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation. Additional support was made possible by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts. Major support for the National Dance Project is also provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Yu Wei Chinese Dance
Friday, February 19, 2010, 8 p.m.
Tri-C Metropolitan Mainstage Theatre
Prodigiously talented Chinese choreographer and dancer Yu Wei has been holding American audiences spellbound since her debut in 2000. Wei’s enthralling dance style integrates Chinese traditional, folk, Western ballet and modern dance traditions with powerful short films to create performances of vivid imagery and artistic power. Influenced by the synergy between dance, poetry and music that flourished during the Tang Dynasty, Wei’s dance art is both symbolic and expository in nature and steeped in Chinese classical literature, history and folk legend.
Tickets $17 Adult/ $15 Senior / $10 Student
General Admission
“Yu Wei’s graceful beauty . . . makes her a treasure of both China and the world.” – The Dayton Daily News
Joe Goode Performance Group
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8 p.m.
Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare,
Returning to Tri-C after performing in the 2006-2007 season, Joe Goode Performance Group's latest work Wonderboy is a collaboration with acclaimed avant-garde puppet designer Basil Twist and eclectic composer/musicians Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. The piece incorporates Twist’s magical puppetry into Joe Goode Performance Group’s innovative storytelling through dance, text and song. The evening-length work is an enlightening tale of an unexpected hero isolated by sensitivity and an intuitiveness that sets him apart from others, giving him an enormous power to see and heal with his gentle demeanor. Award winning choreographer, writer, and director Joe Goode is widely heralded as an innovator for his ability to combine movement with spoken word, song, and visual imagery to create stunning contemporary dance theater.
Click here for our interview with Joe Goode
Tickets $35/$30/$20/$10
Reserved Seating – Senior and Student Discounts Available
“Performances [that] are uniformly first rate.” – The New York Times
Pilobolus Dance Theater
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 8 p.m.
Palace Theatre, PlayhouseSquare
World renowned for a startling mix of humor and invention, Pilobolus Dance Theater combines elements of acrobatics, athleticism and flexibility with theatrical illusion, creating performances characterized by a playful interaction between the performers’ bodies and exaggerated contortions of the human form often verging on gymnastics. Always looking to reinvent dance and theater, the group has previously partnered with such luminaries as famed writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, and American puppeteer Basil Twist, among others. The company was featured in the broadcast of the 79th Academy Awards, and in 2009 the troupe was nominated for an Emmy Award for a teaser ad prior to the NFL Network’s Saturday Night Football: Baltimore Ravens at Dallas Cowboys.
Tickets $45/$35/$25/$20/$10
Reserved Seating
“Grace meets physical agility to create movement that is as lyrical as it is astonishing.” – The Sunday Oregonian
Co-Presented with DANCECleveland