Today is a banner day for Miami dance: Rosie Herrera presents a full evening of work at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina — a feat that puts her in the company of other giants of dance like Martha Clarke, Paul Taylor, and Shen Wei. My heart is broken because I just spent […]

So, what’s so funny about gay marriage? I asked new vaudevillian Sara Felder shortly after the kick-off panel for Out in the Tropics, the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender performing arts festival new to Miami Beach this summer. Here are her answers to that impertinent question, and a few more. Your one-woman show June Bride is […]

Who knew that a tribute to Edward Villella could lead to this? I should be asking questions like: Will Alex Wong’s play on So You Think You Can Dance attract a bigger and younger audience for his former company, Miami City Ballet? But I can’t think straight right now. I’m mesmerized by Wong’s crossover performance. […]

If you ask me, fireworks are a little redundant in a town with as much flash and sizzle as Miami gets from our drag scene. Adora and Elaine Lancaster burn brighter than a truckload of Roman candles. There’s more to queer performance than high heels and long lashes though. That’s why impresario Robbie Rosenberg joined […]

East Coast. West Coast. Dirty South…Montreal? That French Canadian city may be known for supporting the arts, but it’s not exactly the first joint that comes to mind for urban music and dance. But then Quebec’s own Blueprint Cru made it to the finals on America’s Best Dance Crew this season. And last Thursday at […]

City Theatre’s late night Undershorts really is adult fare. Just ask my 18-year-old son, who I had to pry off the couch along with his 17-year-old girlfriend, to get them to accompany his old mom to the theater. Now that he’s legally an adult, he can’t stand any silly, kid stuff. No one is more […]

When the Summer Shorts Festival first moved to the Arsht Center what, four, years ago now, the crowds were sparse. Shorts, which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year, needed time to build an audience in the new space. This season, it’s not always possible to get ticket on Friday or Saturday nights. The secret is […]

It’s nice to have friends where ever you go. And especially nice to have Friends With You, Miami’s weirdo toymakers – I mean, art collective — greeting me in Toronto where I touched down last week for the Performance Studies International conference, which happened to coincide with the Luminato Festival of Arts and Creativity. I […]

Late May and into June, after the so-called season has ended and the dancers of Miami City Ballet have put away their toe shoes, a more independent, D-I-Y kind of dance lives on. Choreographers without boards of directors or paid subscribers somehow put together scrappy productions that are often my favorites of the year. This […]