DanceWorks Week 3: BLAKK JAKK DANCE COLLECTIVE
May 01, 2025 - May 03, 2025
7pm, Thu/Fri/Sat, James Levin Theatre
While continuing CPT’s commitment to offering accessible pricing, we’re also offering specially priced reserved seating options as follows:
VIP: $80 reserved seat + bar voucher through the Box Office at 216.631.2727 x 501
General Admission Seating: $40 adult, $30 senior, $20 student
Choose What You Pay GA: First-come-first-served $10 and $1 tickets!
Every year, Cleveland Public Theatre welcomes Northeast Ohio's most adventurous contemporary dance companies to the CPT stage for remarkable and premiere dance performances.
Every Friday is Free Bev Friday where select post-show beverages are on CPT.
Content Warning: DanceWorks is a presented series, which means we don’t always know the content entirely. CPT supports art in development, as well as social-justice-oriented work, and sensitive material may be explored. Because of the nature of art in development, we can’t provide additional content warnings for DanceWorks performances.
The James Levin Theatre is ADA compliant, featuring a ramped entrance and an all-gender, wheelchair-accessible restroom.
BLAKK JAKK DANCE COLLECTIVE
Rhythms of Heritage
Experience the ancestral connections and similarities of Gumboot dance in South Africa and Stepping by Black fraternities and sororities in America.
ABOUT BLAKK JAKK DANCE COLLECTIVE
Blakk Jakk Dance Collective, Founded by RonDale Simpson, was formed in the summer of 2020 as a community project-based dance company. The styles include Hip-Hop fusion, Modern, Afro Beats, HBCU dance style, and stepping. BJDC was created to allow dancers of color opportunities to improve their skills, perform and build a network of emerging and professional dancers. To create works of Artistic excellence and broaden the appreciation of dance in our community.
Blakk Jakk Dance Collective’s vision is to preserve, transform and unify our communities with the arts with a focus on dance in the African diaspora. To be rooted in the advancement of cultural awareness, social mindfulness, and self-empowerment. We hope to protect our culture, challenge social norms, and validate our experiences by extending, exploring, and investigating the Black narrative through dance.
Photo by Scott Esterly