Last weekend, Tigertail’s month-long FLA-FRA (Florida-France Festival) produced “Come to the Edge,” a 12-hour reading of the works of famed French writer Apollinaire at the ArtCenter/South Florida on South Beach. I was given the opportunity, along with 23 volunteers, to read from his collected works in a semi-cozy, unused artist studio to a small audience […]
Article · April 7, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
The 3rd Annual Artistry in Rhythm Dance Conference: Engaging the Community (A.I.R Dance Conference) is an academic dance conference that’s open to Middle Schools, High Schools, Colleges and the community. A.I.R. The conference features master dance classes, lectures and performances from guest artists that explore the impact dance has on the community and the individual. […]
Article · April 4, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
The O, Miami Poetry Festival is back. This means one thing: it’s time to get up, get out and experience poetry for all. During the month of April, National Poetry Month, O, Miami will use the city and its landscape as a canvas for the literary arts. O, Miami logo. “Poetry is a living, breathing […]
Article · March 31, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
“The Young Artist program was started at a time when many regional opera companies had decided to offer a training ground for young operatic talent,” said Julie Maykowski, head of the Florida Grand Opera’s Young Artist program. “The growth we have seen from the Young Artists this season has been extraordinary. They have a much […]
Article · March 27, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
The Florida Grand Opera (FGO) presents Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca March 29th – April 12th at the Arsht Center and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Veteran Kara Shay Thomson plays the lead role of Floria Tosca; however, newcomer and FGO Young Artist in Resident—Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste—will fill the lead role on March 30th, April 2nd and […]
Article · March 24, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” ― Richard Buckminster Fuller R. Buckminster Fuller. R. Buckminster Fuller […]
Article · March 20, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
On April 4th and 5th, “Da-Da: A Contemporary Dance” by Augusto Soledade premieres at the Aventura Arts and Cultural Center at 8 p.m. “Da-Da.” When I hear the word dada in the context of contemporary dance, I think anti-movement. However, Soledade’s expansive definition of ‘da-da’ is anything but exclusive and/or rigid. It opens the stage […]
Article · March 17, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
History, whatever we may think of it, is always a fragile and fractured amalgamation of facts and fictions that we construct in an attempt to explain where we come from and where we will go. Dancer and choreographer Niurca Márquez takes on history in her new work, “The History House,” which pushes the limits of […]
Article · March 13, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Carrie Sieh’s exhibition “Textiles for Men and Machine Breakers,” curated by Bernice Steinbaum, has been extended through March 30th at the Audrey Love Gallery at the Bakehouse Art Complex (a Knight Arts grantee). Sieh’s exhibition “is anchored in the idea that the history of crafts(person)ship is central to the formation of contemporary gender identities.” “Textiles […]
Article · March 10, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
When I read the title, “Gerald Ford Superfreak,” I laughed uncontrollably. I felt guilty for three seconds and then I chilled out. You see, it’s a comedy, so I had responded appropriately for once. “Gerald Ford Superfreak,” the latest comedy from Mad Cat Theatre Company, opens next month at a very appropriate venue—the South Beach […]
Article · March 6, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Last Friday I commandeered the comfy offices of FUNDarte. Elizabeth Doud, FUNDarte’s Artistic & Development Consultant, escorted me to a cushioned rocking chair on the balcony. From my perch I could see the teeniest sliver of ocean in the distance, or maybe it was just the sky. Whatever it was, I also got a peek […]
Article · March 3, 2014 by Neil de la Flor