Fundarte‘s Miami On Stage closed this past weekend with the strongest evening of the series. The bill was split into two solo performances: José Manuel Domínguez in “Hilo” (Thread) and Elizabeth Doud in “Sipping Fury from a Tea Cup.” Though Domínguez and Doud were the only human performers on stage, they were hardly alone. Each […]

Augusto Soledade likes to share the spotlight. His Brazz Dance Theater frequently shares the bill — as in last year’s evening with Letty Bassart. This holiday weekend, Soledade is bringing the Moving Current Dance Collective from Tampa for a shared slate of performance. Earlier this week, Soldade filled Knight Arts in on why he believes […]

Sometimes it’s nice to see your surroundings through new eyes. Last Friday at Inkub8, I had the pleasure of sitting next to a Miami native who has been away from home for a while. When I met Krista Miranda last summer in Zagreb, Croatia at the Performance Studies International conference, she asked me if there […]

When the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater returns to the Arsht Center this weekend, the revered company will be celebrating Judith Jamison’s 20th anniversary as artistic director. While duly paying homage to Jamison’s accomplishments, Miamians also are thrilled by the naming of a native son as her successor: Liberty City’s own Robert Battle. Battle began choreographing […]

At the Arts & Business Council of Miami‘s annual Serving the Arts Luncheon last Tuesday, trial lawyer and keynote speaker Lewis S. Eidson made the case that “arts mean business.” Among all the facts and figures about how the arts create jobs and revitalize neighborhoods, what stuck out for me was Eidson’s contention that three […]

“Dios aprieta, pero no ahoga” (God may squeeze, but he won’t drown us), observed Mario Ernesto Sanchez when asked what winning the Knight Arts Challenge has meant to his theater company, Teatro Avante, and the International Hispanic Theatre Festival his group hosts each year. “The award came at just the right time,” he explained. “We […]

Some things seem cosmically ordered. Like this weekend: two of Miami’s most vibrant and visible contemporary dance companies celebrate 10 year anniversaries. Miami Contemporary Dance Company is a testimony to the vision of Ray Sullivan. Dance Now! Ensemble is the fruit of an artistic partnership between Hannah Baumgarten and Diego Salterini. For the past decade, […]

Georges Bizet’s Carmen is the biggest brand in opera, and of the best known in all the performing arts. It’s got gypsies, girl fights, love triangles, and great songs everyone knows. So it’s no surprise that the Florida Grand Opera‘s production has been selling out during it’s current run at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Go, […]

After a steamy month or two on the Miami stage, the inspiration for our local theater seems to have shifted from violent carnality to pop music. Starting tonight Mad Cat Theatre reprises Hialeah-boy-made-good’s play Broadsword, with actor/director Paul Tei returning from his star turn in Hollywood (California, that is) to join Mad Cat favorites Erik […]

William Carlson is willing to see what transpires. One of the foremost studio artists working with glass, he can never completely control what he creates. “Glass art has an undetermined or open future,” Carlson observes. “There’s not as much in the way of predictable expectation.” That’s what makes his finish work all the more breathtaking. Carlson came […]