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<b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">cleveland PUBLIC theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Presents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#467886"><a href="https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2024-2025/category/series/dance-works/"><span style="color:#467886">DanceWorks 25</span></a></span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:#467886"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Cleveland Public Theatre presents four more weekends of unique dance performances. Styles of dance this year include modern, South African, African American “stepping,” magical realism-inspired,
a yarn dance and more!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Week 2: April 24-April 26—Inlet Dance Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">In Response
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Colorful magic realism collides with contemporary dance theatre as Inlet responds to art, societal division, envy, bureaucracy, and the numerous responsibilities
vying for our attention. The company will share an exciting work in progress and premiere a new work alongside its transportive, athletic, and imaginative repertory.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.inletdance.org/">inletdance.org</a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Week 3: May 1-May 3—Blakk Jakk Dance Collective
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Rhythms of Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Experience the ancestral connections and similarities of Gumboot dance in South Africa and Stepping by Black fraternities and sororities in America.
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/blakkjakkdance/">Blakk Jakk Dance Collective LLC (@blakkjakkdance) • Instagram photos and videos</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Week 4— May 8-10—Ajayi Dance
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Again and Again and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Premiering three new works in addition to stage adaptations of the 2022 site-specific work
<i>Place in Time: There|Then</i> (originally set at Hale Farm and Village), </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">this<span style="color:black"> evening will feature more than 20 local artists, original music by Luke Rinderknecht,
and live performance by the Nightingales A Cappella Choir. Audiences can expect a visceral journey of reflection, a reckoning of personal and collective responsibility, and a celebration of resilience utilizing joy as resistance in Ajayi Dance's first ever
full evening of work performed in a traditional stage setting. </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Week 5— May 15-17 DOUBLE BILL!—Christina Lindhout & Blissed Out Human Collective<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Common Threads</span></i></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Common Threads</span></i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white"> is
an evening of powerful and virtuosic movement, weaving together themes of identity, strength, resilience, and repair featuring Christina Lindhout & Artists’ <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">our knees hurt</span></em>, and Blissed Out Human
Collective’s <em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Unravel</span></em>. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Christina Lindhout & Artists: <i>Our Knees Hurt</i> </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Christina Lindhout & Artists present <i>our knees hurt</i>, an exploration of female-identifying bodies and the enduring fight for autonomy, self-worth, and dignity.
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="http://www.christinalindhout.com/">www.christinalindhout.com</a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Blissed Out Human Collective: <i>Unravel</i></span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222">Watch a mesmerizing sequence of movement vignettes about building, unraveling, and repair. Combining contemporary dance with crochet, dancers will move through yarn-constructed landscapes,
weave creations with their bodies, and ultimately pull everything to pieces.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">TICKET INFORMATION:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">While continuing CPT’s commitment to offering accessible pricing, we’re also offering specially priced reserved
seating options as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">VIP:
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">$80 reserved seat + bar voucher through the Box Office</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">General Admission Seating</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">: $40 adult, $30 senior,
$20 student</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">First-come-first-served $10 and $1 tickets!</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Also, every <b>Friday is Free Bev Friday at CPT</b> where patrons and artists can mingle and discuss the performance and enjoy select complimentary beverages.</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cptonline.org/"><span style="color:#467886">www.cptonline.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">
or 216.631.2727 x 501 </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Links to DanceWorks in the news below!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://fox8.com/news/kenny-gets-a-preview-of-danceworks/">Check out this previw of DanceWorks on Fox 8’s Kickin’ It With Kenny</a></span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">.
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="https://artsair.art/2025/04/10/murder-reckoning-and-an-a-cappella-choir-cpts-danceworks-2025-presents-five-weeks-of-evocative-dance-preview/"><span style="color:#467886">Check
out this article about this year’s line-up by dance writer Steve Sucato by clicking the link!</span></a>
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