*Raphael Xavier with Live Music & Local Northeast Ohio Dancers* *Saturday, August 21 at 3 pm & 5:30 pm* *Cain Park, Cleveland Heights -Along The Pathways* * FREE, NON-Ticketed Event!* *More info at DANCECleveland.org. * DANCECleveland is excited to come together in person again for an outdoor, site-responsive performance at one of our favorite summer venues, Cain Park. This original collaborative and creative work will bring together world-renowned Hip Hop dance company, Raphael Xavier, live music, and Northeast Ohio's local hip-hop community. The idea for "KOLÂDE-XCOPE" originated as an outdoor experience at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. The work will include a live musician/vocalist and electronic technology with hip-hop aesthetics that include breaking, poetry, spoken word, and rap cadences with an improvisational and intuitive approach. The work will be shaped and inspired by the perspectives and backgrounds of the local artists tapped to collaborate and perform in the piece. An Award-winning artist originally from Wilmington, Delaware, Raphael Xavier is a Hip-Hop dancer and breaking practitioner that has been honing his craft since 1983. A self-described "Innovative Movement Conceptualist", Xavier creates new ways to expand the vocabulary of the dance form and how it fits onto an aging body. Don't miss this outdoor performance experience that is truly one of a kind! *"…Artful and mesmerizing, Xavier transforms a bravado dance style into an introspective meditation." - Dance Magazine* *Sarah Sumbrum **(Formerly Hricko)* Marketing & Artistic Director DANCECleveland 13110 Shaker Square, Suite 106 Cleveland, Ohio 44120 p. 216-991-9000 sarah@dancecleveland.org <sdurham@dancecleveland.org> *The Curtain Rises Again! DANCECleveland is pleased to present the 2021-2022 Season of World-Class Dance in celebration of our 65th Anniversary! *Performances include *Raphael Xavier* on Aug. 21, *Monica Bill Barnes & Company* on Sept. 25, *A.I.M* on Nov. 6, *MOMIX* on Feb. 5, *Pam Tanowitz Dance with Simone Dinnerstein* on March 19 and *Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater* on April 22, 23, & 24. *Subscriptions are on sale now!* Individual performance tickets on sale starting August 16th. Visit *www.dancecleveland.org* <http://www.dancecleveland.org/> for more information. *Like DANCECleveland <http://www.facebook.com/pages/DANCECleveland/143084909898?ref=ts> on Facebook & follow us on Twitter! <https://twitter.com/DANCECleveland>*