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DANCECleveland

Cleveland, OH

GIG Fund

FY2024

About

DANCECleveland is engaging Israel’s Vertigo Dance Company for a four-day visit to Northeast Ohio in April 2024. The company’s visit will include outreach and education programming around Northeast Ohio, and a performance at the Mimi Ohio Theatre in Playhouse Square. The company will arrive in Cleveland on Monday, April 15, and during their first three days here, company members will lead classes and workshops throughout the region, which will include an adaptive movement class at a local senior center, advanced level classes for college dance majors at Kent State University, a youth class for dance students at Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Akron, and a community masterclass open to all intermediate and advanced dancers ages 14 and older. For their mainstage performance at Playhouse Square on April 18, 2024, Vertigo will perform their evening-length work, Makom, and participate in a pre-show chat and post-show Q&A session with audiences.

Award Details

  • GIG Fund
    Grant or Award Received
  • Ohio
    Location
  • $4,000
    Grant Amount
  • 2024
    Fiscal Year of Award

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