INSIGHTS: Jardí Tancat

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INSIGHTS: Jardí Tancat

Published January 17, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Emily Parkinson, Miami City Ballet Performing Nacho Duato's Jardí Tancat has been a new experience for our dancers and audiences alike. As the first Duato work in our repertoire, the grounded, lyrical choreography danced barefoot to the soulful music of Maria del Mar Bonet has certainly stretched our dancers...

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Inside the 10th annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival

Published January 17, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Miles A. Coon, Palm Beach Poetry Festival The 10th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 20-25, 2014. at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square, Delray Beach, features Nine Poetry Workshops (now full) and Fifteen public events including evening readings and performances, afternoon talks and...

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Juan López, Between Walls at ArtCenter/South Florida

Published January 17, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Elizabeth Shannon. Knight Curatorial Fellow Bass Museum of Art The ArtCenter/South Florida’s Richard Shack Gallery has been looking rather unusual for the last few months. For visitors (such as myself) who had not been into the gallery space before, it took a few moments to realize that something strange...

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Welcome to Detroit’s newest art journal, “∞ mile”

Published January 17, 2014 by Rosie Sharp

Built on the creative organizational prowess of curator and arts administrator Jennifer Junkermeier in collaboration with artist, writer and teacher Stephen Garret Dewyer comes ∞ mile, a new monthly journal of "art + culture(s) in Detroit." The inaugural issue debuted in late December, with features by both co-founders, as well...

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Pianist Jeremy Denk to appear for Tuesday Musical

Published January 17, 2014 by Roger Durbin

If you took in the 2010 Joshua Bell concert for Tuesday Musical, a Knight Arts grantee, then you also were probably aware of the accompanist he had for the evening – Jeremy Denk. It will be Denk’s turn when he will perform a piano solo concert on February 4. According...

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Henrique Oliveira installation coming to Charlotte

Published January 17, 2014 by Katherine Balcerek

"Tapumes," Henrique Oliveira, 26 March - 9 May 2009; commission, Rice University Art Gallery. World-renowned Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira is currently in Charlotte creating a site-specific installation for the University of North Carolina Charlotte at its Center City Building in the Projective Eye Gallery. Winner of...

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Robin Haines Merrill

Published January 16, 2014 by Neil de la Flor

Robin Haines Merrill aims to preserve the traditional art form of dugout canoes by organizing a seasonal Paddle Up, featuring Seminole and Miccosukee canoes. From her missionary work in Manila's seedy sex industry to Inner Mongolia, Robin Haines Merrill, a recent Knight Arts Challenge grantee, has preserved and fostered the...

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First rehearsal, The Music Man, Ten Thousand Things Theater

Published January 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Kira Obolensky, Ten Thousand Things It’s day two of the polar vortex, which as I understand it is kind of an upside down weather system. The cold that’s supposed to be in polar regions has inverted itself and instead is freezing us. In any case, the church basement where...

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The Miami New Times profiles Knight Arts grantee Shira Lee Abergel

Published January 16, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

Shira Lee Abergel was awarded a $50,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant to "entertain audiences unconventionally by reimagining the medicine shows of old in a wooden wagon that travels and transforms into a theatrical playing space." The Miami New Times takes a closer look at the grantee this month. Read below...

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Joe Boruchow’s remnants at Chapterhouse

Published January 16, 2014 by CSchwartz

Lending new meaning to reuse and recycling, unmistakable Philadelphia public artist and cut paper master Joe Boruchow takes to the South Philadelphia Chapterhouse Cafe & Gallery for a special exhibit “14 Collages by Joe Boruchow” or “Constructed from Remnants.” Typically slicing paper very much consciously to construct black and white...

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Cleveland Orchestra expands ‘Under 18s Free’ program to Miami residency

Published January 15, 2014 by Gregory Stepanich

Gil Shaham, who appears with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Knight Concert Hall from Jan. 24-25. Photo by Christian Steiner The Cleveland Orchestra returns this month to the Arsht Center’s Knight Concert Hall for its annual residency, and over three months will present four subscription concerts...

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Weathervane Playhouse’s “Uncle Vanya” a journey through sadness and destruction

Published January 15, 2014 by Roger Durbin

When you go to see Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" that is being presented by Weathervane Playhouse, a Knight Arts grantee, you can't expect to walk out of the theater whistling a happy tune. Chekhov's story tells of an extended Russian family group that aren't particularly likeable people, and who have...

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Explore local stories at theTheatre Lab Project’s 2nd annual South Florida “One-Minute Play Festival”

Published January 14, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Sheila Stieglitz, Miami-Dade County Parks Poignant, humorous and edgy works that focus on local stories define the Deering Estate at Cutler’s Theatre Lab Project’s premiere performance of the 2nd annual South Florida “One-Minute Play Festival” (#1MPF). The two-day grand opening celebration on Saturday, January 25th at 8:00 pm and...

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Presenting the Winning Designs for Our Artist-Designed Bike Rack Contest

Published January 14, 2014 by Valerie Nahmad

By Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia Cross-posted from Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia This past summer we put out a call for artists to design bike racks for significant public places around Philadelphia. We held a contest, partnering with the City of Philadelphia's Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative...

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A view of Haitian rites of passage through life

Published January 14, 2014 by Anne Tschida

Image from "Rituales en Haiti." Four years ago last Sunday, Haiti suffered one of the worst disasters in its already troubled history, the 7.0 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands and upended millions of lives. But the Haitian spirit didn’t die; in fact struggle, and overcoming...