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Cleveland Dance Exchange
Top 10
April 9-11, 2015, 7:30pm
Cleveland Public Theatre DanceWorks Series
Gordon Square Theatre, Cleveland OH
Ten Cleveland choreographers. Ten original dance works. Ten Billboard Hot 100 hits. Which hits? You choose. Audience members will vote to determine which songs will be played each night. 1960s? 1980s? 2000s? You decide.
Double bill with Ohio Dance Theatre! Tickets are $12-28.
Photo: Kurt Wick
Burning on the River
July 3-13, 2014
San Diego International Fringe Festival
Tenth Avenue Arts Center Mainstage, San Diego CA
Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire in the 1960s earning the nickname the "Burning River." Today, Cleveland is home to a vibrant arts and urban revitalization movement. For this production, San Diego native Shannon Sterne returns to her hometown to share small portion of the vitality that has come from one of America’s most economically depressed regions. "Burning on the River" includes works by Cleveland-area artists Sarah Morrison, the Founding Artistic Director of MorrisonDance; Kelli Sanford, the Founding Artistic Director of RED Company; former Pilobolus dancer and emerging choreographer Annika Sheaff, currently with GroundWorks Dance Theater; and Shannon Sterne, the Founder of the Cleveland Dance Exchange (CDX). Photo: Allen Clark
Submersion
April 26, 2014
OhioDance Festival Showcase
BalletMet Performance Space, Columbus OH
Submersion is the final section of the five-section, 23-minute dance work Inundation choreographed by Shannon Sterne. Framed within metaphors related to flooding and drowning, the work captures the emotional turbulence associated with desire, expectation, and loss. Submersion depicts failing resolve as we succumb to our physical and emotional struggles. Photo: Brad Petot
Conduct
September 7, 2013
Pandemonium - Shine
Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland OH
Conduct was conceptualized and choreographed collaboratively by Shannon Sterne, Dezare Foster, and Kelly Clymer for CPT's annual Pandemonium benefit. The work was later restaged and presented at the Fall OhioDance Festival in Ada OH.