Inlet’s Education Matinee, Spring 2017 at Cleveland Public Theatre.
Join us as Inlet Dance Theatre’s various education programs from around the Greater Cleveland/Akron community come together to share the stage in this one-of-a-kind dance concert–Inlet’s Education Matinee. On Saturday, May 5th at 2pm, all of our students will gather to perform at the Snow Road Library in Parma, OH. Students, as young as 3 all the way up to the young adults of the Pre-Professional Inlet Trainee & Apprentice Program, will showcase what they’ve learned and created this year as part of their connection with Inlet and the dance making process.
This event is FREE, but donations are accepted at the door to help support the next generation of artist and art makers! The following schools/programs will be showcased: Newton D. Baker School for Performing Arts, CLE Boys & Girls Club, The Lillian & Betty Ratner School, Miller South Visual & Performing Arts, Akron School for the Arts, and The Music Settlement.
Newton D. Baker Student Dance Ensemble
Newton D. Baker Student Dance Ensemble
Emily Stonecipher & Elizabeth Pollert teach children ages 9-12 in the after school dance program at Newton D. Baker School of the Arts. There are several performance opportunities for the program in May; the students will be performing at Inlet’s Education Matinee on May 5th, outdoors at Kamm’s Corner Hooley Festival on May 12th, in Newton D. Baker’s school-wide Spring Culminating Arts Night on May 15th, and at the Cleveland Municipal School District’s Rock Your World showcase at the Rock & Roll Hall of fame on May 19th. As a performing ensemble, the after school program focuses on increasing technical proficiency and introducing elements of the Erick Hawkins modern dance technique, as well as continuing to work on improvisational skills. Emily & Elizabeth are building a piece collaboratively with the students, using movement & images the students created based on local neighborhood and Cleveland-themed prompts.
The Boys & Girls Club – Franklin D. Roosevelt Elementary
Erin Pennebaker is teaching the Boys & Girls Club from Franklin D. Roosevelt Elementary with Dominic Moore-Dunson and Maribeth Van Hecke on Thursday evenings. The age group ranges from 8-10. The students have been working very hard and are always extremely enthusiastic and attentive. They have spent time this semester learning about space, time, levels, ensemble, cannon and repetition, and incorporating movement phrases into these themes. The Boys & Girls Club have a culminating performance on May 9th where the theme of the evening is “empathy”. They combined movement phrases from the semester to base a piece off of this theme to the song “Sittin’ On The Dock of the Bay”.
The Boys & Girls Club – Walton Elementary
Boys & Girls Club at Walton Elementary
Emily Stonecipher & Dominic Moore-Dunson teach children ages 7-11 years for the Boys & Girls Club program at Walton Elementary. The children will be performing to live accompaniment at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on May 9th, at the Boys & Girls Club end-of-semester arts showcase. As the theme for this semester’s showcase was based on music from the Memphis jazz era, they selected music from Staff Record label artists and have created a piece based on physical empathy with an emphasis on musicality. they will also be performing at Inlet’s Education Matinee on May 5th.
The Lillian & Betty Ratner School
Ratner students performing “Cat in the Hat”
At the Lilian and Betty Ratner School, Dominic Moore-Dunson and Kevin Parker have been working with the 1st and 2nd graders to collaboratively build small adaptations of famous books by author Dr. Seuss. The students performed three works ” 1 Fish 2 Fish, Mr. Grinch, and Cat in the Hat” as a part of Ratner’s annual Dr. Seuss Awards which celebrates the author on his birthday. For Inlet’s Education Matinee the Ratner students will perform “Cat in the Hat” as a culmination of a residency focused on creativity & storytelling.
Miller South Visual & Performing Arts and Akron School of the Arts
Dancers from Miller South Visual & Performing Arts
As a result of the Knights Arts Challenge Grant, Dominic Moore-Dunson and Kevin Parker were able to conduct two choreographic residencies at Miller South Visual & Performing Arts (middle school) and Akron School of the Arts (high school). At Miller South, they spent 4 weeks discussing choreographic tools & devices choreographers use to create world class dance. The students had the opportunity to create/develop movement in a work-in-progress environment. During the time with the Akron School of the Arts students, they explored dance making from the lens of story-telling. The residency culminated with a poignant work the all-female dance department wanted to create about the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement.
The Music Settlement
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