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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Dance, dance, dance—Fall <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in Cleveland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Roy Berko<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino">(Member, Dance Critics
Association)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino">--THE TIMES NEWSPAPERS--<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Palatino">Lorain County Times--Westlaker Times--Lakewood News Times--Olmsted-Fairview
Times</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Palatino"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino">--coocleveland.com—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino">--royberko.info<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino">Fall is near and the Cleveland
dance scene is about to bust loose!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Here are some local early autumn offerings:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Palatino"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">VERB BALLETS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;text-transform:
uppercase;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">American Lore </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow";text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">September 23, 2011 8:00
p.m. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow""><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Breen Center for the Performing Arts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Tickets:<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>216-397-3757 or verballets.org</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow""><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"">
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Based
on the theme, “America is a land rich with stories, a place for rebels and
pioneers,” the program includes: <i><span style="text-transform:uppercase">Billy
the Kid</span></i>, choreographer Ginger Thatcher premiere of a new take on
this outlaw; a revival of Martha Graham's <i><span style="text-transform:uppercase">Appalachian
Spring</span></i>; and a revival of Terence Greene's <i><span style="text-transform:
uppercase">The Gathering</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:30.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow";mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow";text-transform:uppercase">Dance Showcase</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Arial Narrow""><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"">Palace Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"">September 9, 2011 7:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial Narrow"">Free:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>No tickets
required.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:#181916"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>The
annual PHSquare celebration of dance features a selection of Northeast Ohio’s
finest professional companies: The Dancing Wheels Company, Dance/Theater
Collective, Inlet Dance Theatre, MorrisonDance, Ohio Dance Theatre, Shri Kalaa
Mandir, Travesty Dance Group, Verb Ballets and Sara Whale. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">GROUNDWORKS
DANCETHEATRE<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">September 16 and 17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>8:00 p.m.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Ice House, 129 North Summit Street, Akron</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">Tickets: 216-691-3180 or groundworksdance.org</div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Two
world premieres:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>a commissioned
work by former company member Amy Miller and a new work by Artistic Director
David Shimotakahara. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">DANCING WHEELS<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">September 9</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Dance Show Case (see details above) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">September 16, 17 & 18</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Ingenuity Festival; Detroit-Superior Bridge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">For details go to: </span>http://ingenuitycleveland.com/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">DANCE CLEVELAND<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Presented by:<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>DANCE Cleveland, <a href="http://www.ejthomashall.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">EJ Thomas
Hall</span></a> & <a href="http://www3.uakron.edu/dtaa/di/index.htm"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">University of
Akron Dance <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Program</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">MOMIX<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Saturday, October 1st 8:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">
EJ Thomas Hall, Akron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Tickets:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>http://www.dancecleveland.org/performances<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Known
internationally for presenting works of exceptional inventiveness and physical
beauty, MOMIX is a company of dancer-illusionists under the direction of Moses
Pendleton. MOMIX will present the evening-length work <i><span style="text-transform:uppercase;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Botanica</span></i>,
a spectacular piece that follows the rhythms of the seasons, the evolution of
the world and the passing of a day. Fabrics, colors, costumes, projections and
props create a landscape populated by the creations of Pendleton's original,
whimsical, mythical imagination. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.dancecleveland.org/companies/aszure-barton-and-artists"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Presented by:<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><a href="http://www.dancecleveland.org/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;color:windowtext;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">DANCE Cleveland</span></a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> and <a href="http://www.playhousesquare.com/"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">PlayhouseSquare</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;text-transform:
uppercase">Aszure Barton and Artists<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Saturday,
October 29<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>8:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Ohio Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Tickets:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>http://www.playhousesquare.org
or 216-241-6000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Baryshnikov
protégé Aszure Barton has a distinguished reputation for producing striking
choreography for stage and film. Her company will present Barton's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="text-transform:uppercase">Busk</span>
</i>which explores aspects of what it means to perform.</span></div>
<!--EndFragment--></span></div><div> </div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#8000FF">Roy Berko's blog, which contains theatre and dance reviews from 2001 through 2011, as well as his consulting and publications information, can be found at http://royberko.info. His reviews can also be found on www.coolcleveland.com and www.NeOHIOpal</font></i></div></div></body></html>