CLEVELAND, Ohio – Classical music, visual art and theater may be Cleveland’s cultural calling cards, but there’s another discipline in which the city also takes pride: dance.

Just as the Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the resident companies of Playhouse Square have been leading their fields for over a century, so have dancers in Cleveland been shining brightly for decades, making an impact far greater than many realize.

“There’s such a huge population in dance that started here,” said DoraRae Vactor, founder of the arts coalition Cleveland Dance Movement. “You have all these dancers and dance companies that have blossomed through Cleveland.”

That is the subject of “ Cleveland’s Place in America’s Dance Legacy ,” a two-day symposium taking place Sept. 27-28 at the Pi

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