Creative Arts Welcomes GroundWorks DanceTheater to Metro Campus

Dance company begins residency at the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Center on Jan. 10

The Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®) Creative Arts Center of Excellence welcomes GroundWorks DanceTheater as a professional company-in-residence at its Metropolitan Campus. The company will use the dance studios in the Gill and Tommy LiPuma Center for Creative Arts for its rehearsal space.

Celebrating its 25th anniversary, GroundWorks is nationally recognized for its contribution to dance and the enrichment of human experiences in collaboration with some of the most innovative voices in dance today.

"We are excited to establish a formal partnership that fosters connections with students, faculty and the community at large," said Emanuela Friscioni, director of Tri-C’s Creative Arts Academy. "GroundWorks and Tri-C share similar artistic values and a commitment to the greater Cleveland community, and we are eager to explore artistic projects that fulfill the missions of both organizations."

GroundWorks’ founding artistic director, David Shimotakahara, expressed his perspective on the educational and artistic collaboration.

"Through our work and connections with students, faculty and staff at the College and Creative Arts Academy, GroundWorks looks forward to contributing to Tri-C's rich legacy of empowering creativity and enriching lives, to being part of and responsive to a diverse, multicultural community, and to inspiring imagination in the next generation of thinkers and innovators," he said.

GroundWorks joins the Contemporary Youth Orchestra as a creative partner-in-residence at the Tri-C Metro Campus. Visit Tri-C's Creative Arts Center of Excellence webpage for more information.

January 09, 2024

MEDIA CONTACT: Anthony Moujaes, 216-987-3068 or anthony.moujaes@tri-c.edu