Concerto Dance offers an open master class in Erick Hawkins modern technique and non-traditional partnering with our guest artist in residence Bill Wade, Artistic Director of Inlet Dance Theater in Cleveland Ohio.
Monday, December 2
11:00am-12:30pm
Cost: $20 drop in rate
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Bill Wade is the Founder and Executive/Artistic Director of Inlet Dance Theatre. Since its inception in 2001, Inlet has earned an international reputation for artistic and education programming excellence. Wade is a nationally sought-after choreographer and dance educator whose choreography was recently enthusiastically received at Jacob’s Pillow’s Inside/Out Series and his men’s focused work has been presented twice in Seattle’s “Men in Dance”.
Mr. Wade was chosen by Ohio Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Foundation, Playhouse Square Foundation, the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and The American Embassy in Santiago to conduct an award winning multi-phase international artist exchange program with artists from Easter Island (2006-2008). Inlet was the first American modern dance company to perform on the island.
In the 90’s, he enjoyed a long-term mentoring relationship with Alison Chase, then a co-artistic director of the world renowned Pilobolus Dance Theater. Alison Chase collaborated with Bill and students from Cleveland School of the Arts, creating An Urban Nutcracker, which received national attention from Dance Magazine, TIME magazine, and garnered a rave review in the Wall St. Journal.