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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT color=#000080>GroundWorks DanceTheater Announces “New Works”
Fund<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 20.0pt"><FONT face=Calibri>Newly created Fund to provide major support of new work
commissions, central to GroundWorks’ artistic
mission<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"></SPAN></st1:City></st1:place><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">GroundWorks
DanceTheater has announced the creation of a <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT color=#0000ff>New Works
Fund</FONT></B> which will provide major financial support for newly
commissioned works.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>At the heart of the Cleveland-based dance company’s
artistic mission is the generation of new work created in collaboration with its
artists and produced and supported here in Northeast Ohio. Now in its
13<SUP>th</SUP> season, GroundWorks has commissioned 19 works by nationally and
internationally renowned choreographers including Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Dianne
McIntyre, David Parker, Gina Gibney, KT Niehoff and Jill Sigman, some of the
most creative voices in the field.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Artistic Director David Shimotakahara notes, “The New
Works Fund will greatly expand the scope of GroundWorks’ new commissions and
collaborations and is fundamentally linked to our artistic future. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Every new work is to some extent an act
of faith.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are extremely grateful
to <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT color=#0000ff>Toby Devan Lewis
and Chuck and Charlotte Fowler</FONT></B> for their visionary support, for their
belief in and understanding of the value of supporting creative risk.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the only way to get to innovation,
which is what GroundWorks will continue to work for and invest in. It is my hope
that they will be joined by other like-minded
sponsors.”<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>This summer, The New Works Fund will help support a
multi-media project by director and choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett in
collaboration with video design artist Adam Larsen, set to music by rock legend
Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Hindsight</I></B> will receive its world
premiere July 15-17 in performances at Cain Park’s Alma Theatre in Cleveland
Heights.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This work has been
commissioned with major support from <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT color=#0000ff>the Chuck and Charlotte
Fowler New Works Fund</FONT>.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; BACKGROUND: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>In September 2011, renowned Philadelphia choreographer
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT color=#0000ff>Ronen
Koresh</FONT></B> will begin working with GroundWorks on a new project
commissioned with major support from the <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT color=#0000ff>Toby Devan Lewis New
Works Fund</FONT>.</B> The work is scheduled to premiere in February
2012.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>