TU Dance’s fall season offers both intellectual heft and vulnerability

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TU Dance’s fall season offers both intellectual heft and vulnerability

Published November 19, 2012 by Susannah Schouweiler

TU Dance 2012. Photo by Brandon Stengel. For their eclectic fall season performance at the O’Shaughnessy this weekend, TU Dance (a Knight Arts grantee) offered four very different dance works, including one world premiere, “Feather and Bone,” choreographed by TU Dance Cofounder Uri Sands. The night...

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Museum 2.0’s Nina Simon explores the participatory museum experience

Published November 19, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

How do you make your local museum better? Nina Simon explores the participatory museum experience in a recent Museum 2.0 blog post. Click here to read the entire piece and see below for an excerpt: Reprinted from Museum 2.0: I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to...

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The impact of art in “tough” Philadelphia areas

Published November 19, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

In 2011, Knight Foundation granted $100,000 to the Philadelphia Mural Project. The Project brought Dutch artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn (Haas & Hahn), known as the Favela Painters, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Philadelphia to produce their first permanent art projects in North America. This month Kaid Benfield...

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Borscht 8 Film Festival is set to take over Miami

Published November 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Nick Ducassi, Borscht Corp Just a few days after Art Basel packs up and heads out of town, the Borscht Film Festival is set to take over Miami. This year’s festival runs from December 12-21st, with screenings, parties, and happenings going on all over Miami, including Wynwood, Downtown, and...

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La bohème opens with Award-Winning Soprano Ailyn Perez

Published November 17, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Alejandra Serna, Florida Grand Opera It’s opera time again! Florida Grand Opera is opening its 72nd season with one of opera’s biggest crowd pleasers, Puccini’s La bohème. To top off what is sure to be a fast selling production, the lead role of Mimì is being sung by Mexican-American...

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Fine lines, fine eyes, fine strokes

Published November 16, 2012 by Anne Tschida

Jorge Enrique. Jorge Enrique is a Cuban-born, Miami-based artist who likely has been seen more often outside of Miami than here. Yes, that happens, but he is getting a showing right now at the Waltman Ortega gallery, a series of sculpture paintings, crafted from resin and...

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Tuesday Musical is bringing Vienna Boys Choir to E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall

Published November 16, 2012 by Roger Durbin

The Vienna Boys Choir (Wiener Sangerknaben in German) has been around since 1498. That's a long time, but what a gifted musical tradition. Since 1918 the members (who range in age from 10-14) have made appearances aside from the royal court (where it all began), and in churches or for...

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The Moth Mainstage @ the Fillmore

Published November 16, 2012 by Rosie Sharp

As an irregular attendee of the wildly popular Moth StorySlam events, which take place the first Thursday of every month at Cliff Bell’s, it seemed to logically follow that the Moth Mainstage Event at the Fillmore on Tuesday, November 13th, would be like Moth, but more so. [caption id="attachment_48205" align="aligncenter"...

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Celebrated LINES Ballet to perform in Cleveland Jan. 26-27

Published November 15, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Tom Sarago, DANCECleveland The acclaimed LINES Ballet, let by visionary choreographer and artistic director Alonzo King, will come to the Ohio Theatre for two performances, Jan. 26-27, presented by DANCECleveland and PlayhouseSquare. The performance marks the first time LINES Ballet has performed in Northeast Ohio since their 2007 engagement...

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BCA 10 awards honor partnerships

Published November 15, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council of Miami When business supports the arts, everyone profits. I had the honor of serving as a judge for The BCA 10 awards this year and found tangible evidence that this is true. The annual awards recognize 10 U.S. companies for their exceptional...

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Miami’s GableStage, London’s Royal Shakespeare Company and New York’s The Public Theater announce partnership

Published November 15, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Joseph Adler, GableStage Joseph Adler, GableStage producing artistic director, announced an international collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company in London and The Public Theater in New York to present Tarell Alvin McCraney’s radical new staging of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, to be directed and edited by McCraney. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA...

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Which one will you choose?

Published November 15, 2012 by Katherine Balcerek

Left to Right: the Grace Miller House Palm Springs, CA, designed by Richard Neutra 1937; Dion Neutra. Eclectic interior design meets modernist architecture in the Queen City tonight as the Mint Museum of Art (a Knight Arts grantee) and the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (...

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Inside Abhinaya Dance Company’s production of Gandhi

Published November 15, 2012 by Valerie Nahmad

By Mythili Kumar, Abhinaya Dance Company Abhinaya Dance Company recently received a grant from Knight Foundation for our fall and spring production. We are presenting "Gandhi' as our fall concert on November 17,18, 2012, here's some insight into events leading up to this recital. Abhinaya presented an excerpt of the...

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For the love of literature: Miami Book Fair International

Published November 15, 2012 by Neil de la Flor

The Miami Book Fair International is here and I can almost hear the baristas churning out lattes, cappuccinos and a whole array of caffeine-enriched drinks by the second to a frenzied crowd of book fair goers. With the Street Fair set to open this weekend, November 16–18, literary junkies will...

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Mahler’s sublime, monumental Third

Published November 15, 2012 by Gregory Stepanich

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). The Cleveland Orchestra opens its annual Miami residency this Friday and Saturday with the Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, which at 100 minutes long and six movements is his longest, most sprawling orchestral work. In doing so, the Cleveland makes Miami more of...