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Signs of life: Artists, volunteers prepare for Parade the Circle
The 82-foot-by-82-foot white tent is up at East Bell Commons on East Boulevard and Bellflower Road in University Circle—the telltale sign that preparations are underway for the popular 32nd annual Parade the Circle on Saturday, June 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lead...
MetroHealth Program ‘Prescribes’ Creative Expression as a Treatment for Loneliness
Cleveland, OH, April 11, 2024 Knowing the powerful impact engaging with the arts has on mental health and loneliness, The MetroHealth System’s Center for the Arts in Health launched ArtsRx, a pilot project that allows providers to “prescribe” arts activities and...
Cuyahoga Arts & Culture grants $11.76 million to 273 organizations
Published: Nov. 10, 2022, 12:19 p.m. Playhouse Square was the top recipient of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture's 2023 grant process. (Photo by Ken Blaze) NEW! 133 shares By Paris Wolfe, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga Arts & Culture on Wednesday awarded...
BorderLight sets the stage for five days of theatre and fringe performances in downtown Cleveland
Published: Jul. 19, 2022, 6:01 a.m. BorderLight International Theatre + Fringe Festival will take place July 20-24 in downtown Cleveland. (Image courtesy of BorderLight) By Annie Nickoloff, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – Art from around the globe will take center...
Trauma informed care: Moving to resilience through art
BY BRIAN CALFANO OHIO PUBLISHED 12:58 PM ET JUN. 14, 2022 OHIO — Using arts to offer trauma informed care means students don’t need to come to places like Playhouse Square in Cleveland to get their arts fix. Instead, a program MetroHealth’s Dr. Lisa Ramirez...
Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival to offer free performances, programs at Akron parks this summer
Heinz Poll Summer Dance Festival to offer free performances, programs at Akron parks this summer Published: Jun. 08, 2022, 1:35 p.m. Kelly Korfhage, a professional ballet dancer with Verb Ballets in Shaker Heights, performs. Verb Ballets is one of three dance...
Education Station: Cleveland dance company transforming students’ lives through dance
WATCH NEWS STORY VIDEO HERE Author: January Keaton Published: 12:40 AM EDT April 21, 2022 Updated: 12:40 AM EDT April 21, 2022 Inlet Dance Theater – which had a tough time at the height of COVID – now has a new location to continue its legacy of connecting students...
La Jolla Playhouse stages Without Walls Festival April 21-24. Here’s the full rundown
Twenty-four shows will be presented at Point Loma’s Liberty Station, many of them free and outdoors. BY PAM KRAGENAPRIL 17, 2022 2 PM PT In fall 2013, La Jolla Playhouse presented its first Without Walls Festival, featuring about a dozen adventurous,...
Fluorescent exploration: Waterloo Arts hosts DayGloLAB before annual DayGloSho
DANA SHUGRUE | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2022 CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE Waterloo Arts this month has been hosting DayGloLAB - an artistic experiment with Day-Glo paint that includes live demos and workshops, conversations and talks, hands-on activities, rehearsals and...
ONU Dance Company Co-starring with Inlet Dancers
ONU dance company co-starring with inlet dancers triwhitacre2 days ago CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE ADA — The Inlet Dance Theater and Ohio Northern University Dance Company will be at Ada’s 525 S. Main St at 7:30 pm on Saturday, February 5th. It will be performed at...
Inlet’s New Board of Trustees Chair – Venetia Whatley
Venetia Whatley may be Inlet’s new Board of Trustees Chair but she is not new to Inlet or the work we do. Venetia started working with Inlet’s Founder & Exec/Artistic Director Bill Wade at Cleveland School of the Arts (CSA) when she was in the 4th grade and Bill...
Meet the Inlet Board Members – Linda Merriam
Meet another Inlet Board Member. These individuals go unnoticed, working endlessly to help push Inlet's mission, "using dance to further people." This month we are featuring Linda Merriam! Thank you, Linda, for all the amazing work you do for Inlet Dance Theatre. You...
Janus Smalls Associates
Janus Small Associates is proud to be working with Inlet Dance Theatre this summer and into the early fall on a consultation to develop a three-year strategic plan for the organization. The planning process will include visioning where the organization needs to be...
IMPACT – Shawn Rawls
Conversations in art can be cyclical to the times and trends in which discoveries are made, events take place, and change is acted upon. Other conversations are continuous as those dicsoveries are developed deeper, events keep happening, and still more change is...
A Letter from Founder and Executive Artistic Director, Bill Wade
Since Inlet Dance Theatre’s inception in 2001, we have believed that all black lives matter. We have always used dance as a peaceful form of artistic activism, often using dance as a weapon of protest. These things are evident in the company’s repertory, programming,...
Stories From The Road…Inlet’s National Tour of “What Do You Do With An Idea?”
Dominic Moore-Dunson: "We kicked off our national tour of “What Do You Do With An Idea?” with 6 performances at the Peace Center in Greenville, SC! For all of us, this is our first national tour so the daily workload is definitely something to get used to. Company...
Why is our Summer Dance Intensive so Powerful?
We have been sharing the when, what, and where behind our annual Summer Dance Intensive. Now, we want to share the WHY! Take just a few moments to read the testimonials from 8-time returning student, Ashley Champa, and 2-time returning student, Drake Dombroski. All of...
Did You Know?: Behind “The ‘Black Card’ Project” Supportive Organizations
This month, meet Nicole Mullet, Executive Director of ArtsNow out of Akron, OH. "ArtsNow works to leverage arts and culture in Summit County to support and strengthen the region’s economic and social vibrancy. We believe that a healthy cultural sector is a leading...
Inlet’s 4th Annual BIG BASH
Join the celebration and help Inlet Dance Theatre continue to transform our city with great art! Inlet's 4th Annual Big BashFriday, November 15, 20196:30-10pmCleveland Public Theatre's Parish Hall6205 Detroit Ave, Cleveland OH 44102 (in the Gordon Square Arts...
Summer of FREE Performances
We want to personally invite you to all of our free upcoming performances: Inlet's Summer Dance Intensive 2.5 Week Informal Showing on July 12 at 2:30pm in Playhouse Square's Westfield Insurance Studio Theatre. Please join us to view an informal showing from our...
INLET DANCE THEATRE TO PERFORM AT JACOB’S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL
PERFORMANCE IS A HIGHLIGHT OF A “SUMMER OF SUDDEN” THAT INCLUDES PERFORMANCES IN BECKET (MA), HOUSTON (TX), MORGANTOWN (WV) AND CLEVELAND Cleveland, Ohio (June 28, 2017) – Inlet Dance Theatre will perform at historic Jacob’s Pillow, located in Becket, MA, on August 4...
“The ‘Black Card’ Project” Announces 2020 Expansion
...using dance theatre to prompt discussion around black identity and economics. With new support as a 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Winner, Inlet Dance Theatre to present 2020 performances and develop workshops, educational videos, online platform Cleveland, Ohio...
