By Steve Sucato Choreographer Peter Chu finished a three-week Creative Residency with GroundWorks DanceTheater recently that included...

By Steve Sucato For GroundWorks DanceTheater’s very first collaboration with CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra , the company has...

Written by GW trainee, Micky Esteban Carrie Mae Weens – Untitled from the Kitchen Tables Series (Woman with friends) How does a captured...

We are often able to derive cultural feelings, political movements and changing values from the music of the time. David Shimotakahara,...

GroundWorks 2018 Fall Series features the world premiere of a dynamic new project created in partnership with the Akron Art Museum and...

Celebrating milestones and continuing two decades of creative collaboration, GroundWorks’ Spring Dance Series will feature farewell...

Artistic Director David Shimotakahara ’s new work for GroundWorks 2017 Fall Dance Series explores themes connected to the most primal of...

By Kathleen Folkerth , West Side Leader March 23, 2017 Downtown Akron – Artistic Director David Shimotakahara said GroundWorks...

By Zachary Lewis , The Plain Dealer March 14, 2017 CLEVELAND, Ohio – The muses could not have been kinder to GroundWorks DanceTheater...

“We find ourselves in a time of transition and unpredictable change,” says GWDT Executive Artistic Director David Shimotakahara ....

We are proud to reprise Salt Lake City-based choreographer Eric Handman ’s highly-anticipated work “Remora” during our 2017 Spring Dance...

For GroundWorks, 2016 was a year filled with extraordinary creative opportunities including three live music collaborations within the...

While researching music for his new work for GWDT’s Fall Dance Series , Artistic Director David Shimotakahara came across Conlon...

Dee Perry from WCPN’s The Sound of Applause recently caught up with GWDT’s David Shimotakahara about Carmina Burana at tonight’s Arts in...

We’re thrilled to announce that our own David Shimotakahara will play an integral role in the development of a new work for The Cleveland...

As promised, we will continue to share notes on our creative process to give you a peak behind the curtain & right into the way we think...

CLEVELAND, OH (January 29, 2015) – GroundWorks DanceTheater will host the Cleveland premiere of two new works as part of the company’s...

As promised, we will continue to share notes on our creative process to give you a peak behind the curtain & right into the way we think...