[NEohioPAL] GroundWorks welcomes Dianne McIntyre, Olu Dara

[Nancy Pierce]

World-Renowned Choreographer Dianne McIntyre to be in Residence with GroundWorks DanceTheater


 
Commissioned work will be set to music by Olu Dara; World premiere in January

Free Master Class November 5 at PlayhouseSquare


 
            GroundWorks DanceTheater, Northeast Ohio’s premier dance company, is pleased to announce that Dianne McIntyre will be in residence for three weeks beginning October 26, during which time she will choreograph a commissioned work for the company incollaboration with Olu Dara, with whom she has worked for over 20 years.

            McIntyre, a Cleveland native, has choreographed works for film, television, the Broadway stage and London theater, as well as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.  After earning her BFA from the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University, she moved to New York in 1970 and founded “Dance in Motion,” a collaborative dance/music ensemble.  She has won numerous dance awards and grants, including the 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Olu Dara has been prolific in the world of music, dance and theater since 1963, and is best known for creating a roots-based musical style that combines blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, Caribbean and African rhythms.  He’s been compared to trumpeter Louis Armstrong and called the modern equivalent of the itinerant traveling musician/historian of years past.  Dara’s main recordings are “In the World: From Natchez to New York” and “Neighborhoods.”  He has been honored with the New York Jazz Award for Stylistic Fusion, France’s d’Or International Trophy in Blues and three AUDELCOAwards.  In addition to playing the “pocket” trumpet, guitar, harmonica and a wooden aboriginal instrument, Dara is a vocalist.  “I sing about women, food and life in general,” he says.

The newly created work will enjoy its world premiere in performances January 22 and 23 at the new Breen Center for the Performing Arts, 2008 W. 30th Street in Cleveland.  

As part of GroundWorks’ commitment to community outreach, McIntyre will conduct a Master’s Class during her residency on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10 a.m. in the Gund Studio at Idea Center at Playhouse Square, 1375 Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland.   The free workshop is presented in partnership with Cleveland State University and PlayhouseSquare Foundation Department of Education.  Enrollment is limited.  Anyone interested in attending should send an email to l.deering at csuohio.edu.  
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