Week #1 (Apr. 16 – 19): Verb Ballets
April 16, 2009 - April 19, 2009
8:00pm and 3:00pm, Gordon Square Theatre
$10-$20
Each year Cleveland Public Theatre welcomes the opportunity to showcase Cleveland's talented dance companies as they revive celebrated performance and premiere new work. Six celebrated dance companies will take the stage as they explore various themes in an amazing display of talent and creativity.
Verb Ballets
Cleveland Public Theatre is proud to present Cleveland All Stars, a weekend of dance performances from Verb Ballets that will open DanceWorks 09!
Cleveland’s National Repertory Dance Company opens up Danceworks by going into the lab like a group of mad scientists! Just as visual artists make sketches before setting paint to canvas, nine choreographers will turn the germ of an idea into new works for Verb Ballets’ annual Fresh Inventions series. Featuring the Verb Ballets company of dancers, the company’s emphasis on collaboration includes choreographers Lynn Deering from CSU; Anteaus Dance’s Joan Meggitt; MorrisonDance’s Sarah Morrison; Michael Medcalf, founder of Cleveland Contemporary Dance Theater; Lisa Lock; Troy McCarty; Verb Ballets dancer Catherine Meredith Lambert; and former Verb Ballets company member Mark Tomasic and Robert Wesner; along with lighting designer Trad A Burns. See what’s spinning around in their heads!
The Verb Ballets’ organization has established the company as Cleveland’s premiere national dance repertory company. Verb Ballets was named one of “25 to Watch in 2004” by Dance Magazine, the country’s leading dance news magazine, and recently the magazine named Verb one of 5 “Great Tiny Troupes” in America. Verb Ballets discovers, collects, interprets and stages choreography that matters to the region and to the world of dance.
Click here for more information on Verb Ballets
Click Here to watch Verb Ballets’ recent acquisition,Vespers, in a selection from the WVIZ/ideastream TV program Applause.
Don’t miss a weekend of DanceWorks 09 at Cleveland Public Theatre! Onstage in the Gordon Square Theatre from April 16 – May 24.
Choreographed by Lynn Deering, Joan Meggitt, Sarah Morrison, Michael Medcalf, Lisa Lock, Troy McCarty, Catherine Meredith Lambert, Mark Tomasic and Robert Wesner.
April 16 – April 19 2009
