Still from Dance NOW!’s Ekphrasis Project 2013 performance at the Bass Museum.

Every year, one of the more innovative and exciting events that successfully melds art forms takes place in May at the Bass Museum of Art. That’s when Dance NOW! Miami makes an artistic intervention, to interpret the current art on display through a unique, one-off performance. It’s called “The Ekphrasis Project: Art From Art,” and the title derives from the Greek word Ekphrasis, which loosely means the result of one art form expressing the other.

Because of the interesting mix of art that is usually showing at the Bass, the Dance NOW! troupe – directed by founders Hannah Baumgarten and Diego Salterini – gets a lot to work with. For instance, they have moved around and expressed in movement some Renaissance pieces in the collection, imagining what might have been happening right before or right after a scene in a painting is depicted. Last year, the company got to interact with the video work from Eve Sussman, which in itself was a reenactment of snippets of history, or myths from history.

This year, all we know about this Sunday’s performance is that it will take place among the incredible exhibit from El Anatsui, with his monumental hanging sculptures made from bottle caps; and/or the downstairs exhibit “Vanitas: Fashion and Art,” which examines the correlation between much of haute couture fashion and the art world. Oh, and the Bass now has temporary sculptures out on the front lawn – might be a staging site, who knows?

This year, Dance NOW! also decided to expand and do a performance at the ArtCenter/South Florida, further integrating all the art forms percolating today, in non-traditional and intriguing, 21st-century expressions.

“Ekphrasis Project: Art From Art” takes place this Sunday, May 18, with two performances at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Included in the museum admission price of $8. At the Bass Museum of Art, 2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach; www.dancenowmiami.org or www.bassmuseum. org.