The 2012 Festival will take place on September 14 – 16 at Docks 32 and 30 which sit on the lakefront north of Browns Stadium and the Great Lakes Science Center.  The festival is FREE and open to the public.  For a map of the location, please click here. Hours Friday 5PM – 1AM Saturday Noon – 1AM Sunday Noon – 6PM Two warehouses on the site will provide over 120,000 sq/ft of indoor space with ample outdoor space directly on the lakefront looking back on stunning views of the city. This new location is made possible through a strong partnership between the City of Cleveland, the Port Authority and IngenuityFest. This collaboration will allow the Festival audience a rare chance to enjoy the lakefront in a completely new context. With cutting edge art installations, performances, and exhibitions populating the space, the area will be completely transformed and will offer a glimpse

Best known for their infectious smash hit “Hello” in collaboration with French DJ Martin Solveig, Dragonette’s high-energy synth-pop is backed by the glamour-drenched vocals of Martina Sorbara. The Toronto band is set to release their highly anticipated third album, Bodyparts, this September. The group has toured with Duran Duran, New Order, and the Sugababes, and collaborated on hits with Basement Jaxx, Cyndi Lauper, and Kaskade. Their music has been featured on Grey’s Anatomy, The Hills, Gossip Girl, and The Vampire Diaries and ads for Toyota, Macy’s, Trident and Sony Playstation. Look for Dragonette to infuse their live performances with punk rock sensibility and fashion-forward style. Stay tuned for dates and times.  

Squonk Opera’s (www.squonkopera.org) GO Roadshow is a musical street spectacle on wheels that will truly redefine Cleveland’s lakefront during Ingenuity. This show-making machine is a 34-foot long monster truck retrofitted with truck-horn calliope, a wall made of rotors and a spinning grand piano. Each show starts with a parade and night shows include video projected on a rotor screen, a blimp with an animated face. In GO Roadshow, Squonk draws from the great American history of traveling circuses, Shriner and holiday parades, medicine shows, and used car lot events.

When it comes to origin stories, The Knocks have a good one. After meeting at The New School in New York City, Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner and James “JPatt” Patterson both found themselves in need of a place to live. The two moved in together, and quickly set about making their neighbors hate them. “Our apartment is this small, shitty Avenue C apartment with paper thin walls. We both had studio set-ups in our rooms,” explains B-Roc. “It would be loud as hell, and the neighbors hated it. They’d knock on the walls and bang on the ceiling. We would go into each other’s rooms and say ‘I just got the knocks.’” In the five years leading up to the release of the new Magic EP, everything has changed for The Knocks except their address. They’ve been declared by the NME as one of the “20 hottest producers in music” and

Under the name Helado Negro, Roberto Carlos Lange crafts moody, experimental electro-folk heavily influenced by the ambiance and lush aesthetics of his native South Florida’s Latin culture. Lange is a frequent collaborator with Guillermo Scott Herren, better known as Prefuse 73, and is also a member of music group Savath and Savalas. The son of Ecuadorean immigrants, Roberto Carlos Lange was born in South Florida in 1980. His childhood was suffused with tropical heat, humidity, hurricanes, all refracted with the rich sounds and colors of the various Latin American cultures of southern Florida. Pounding bass beats from passing cars, boom boxes bouncing down the block, and late-night parties called “peñas” provided a foundation for Lange’s interest in sound and lifelong quest to discover the unlimited variety of objects used to produce music. Over the last few years Lange has collaborated with prominent visual and sound artist David Ellis to compose

Philadelphia-based Nichole Canuso Dance Company (www.nicholecanusodance.org) creates dances that exist at the crossroads of movement, visual art and theater.Conceived by choreographer Nichole Canuso and Multimedia director Lars Jan, TAKES will immerse the Ingenuity audience in a shimmering world where live action and lost moments intersect. Barely separated from the audience by the thin membrane of a room size projection box, audiences are free to wander and shift perspective around the TAKES installation and performance.   TAKES – 2minute trailer from Nichole Canuso on Vimeo.