Carnival Arts is an arts learning program for youth living in crisis shelters across the state of Florida. Since 2007, Carnival Arts has introduced more than 1000 young people to dance, drum and mask-making traditions from carnivals from around the world, led by more than 75 professional artists in these traditions and assisted by more than […]
Article · February 27, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
“I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior.” —Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo is the subject of a performance created by award-winning theater artist Deborah L. Sherman. “Frida: Unmasked,” a new commission by Next@19th, examines Kahlo’s life through a Jewish […]
Article · February 24, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
Being trapped in a room with three damned souls and no exit is existential and literal hell. “No Exit,” the next performance in the Unexpected Operas in Unexpected Places series by the Florida Grand Opera (a Knight Arts grantee), adapts existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s play of the same name. The one-act opera by Andy Vores […]
Article · February 20, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
If FUNDarte produces it, I’m there. Since 2003, FUNDarte’s Founder & Executive Director, Ever Chavez, has brought some of the most dynamic, cutting-edge international performing artists and companies to Miami. This Sunday, February 23rd, at 7 p.m., Companhia Urbana de Dança, direct from Rio de Janeiro, performs at On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami-Dade County Auditorium, […]
Article · February 20, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
The Hanan Arts Cooperative and the Mideastern Dance Exchange present the Diaspora Women’s Dance Festival, a weekend of meditation and exploration of dance workshops that culminate in a performance on Saturday, March 8th at 8 p.m. Kaeshi Chai. The culminating performance highlights cross-cultural and interdisciplinary artists Michelle Grant Murray, belly-dancers Valerick Molinary, Alicia of Bellycraft […]
Article · February 17, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
On March 3rd, the Jewish Museum of Florida – FIU opens (for members only) “Cinema Judaica: The War Years 1939-1949.” The exhibition, which comes from the Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion, features iconic Hollywood film posters from the war years and illustrates how some Hollywood studios complied with Nazi propaganda while others studios countered […]
Article · February 13, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
The Moving Perspective Festival at Inkub8, a Knight Arts Grantee, is described as “a series of individually conceived weekly workshops, “labjam “sessions and intensives designed as an open dialogue to identify meanings and procedures from idea to presentation.” But what the festival represents is Inkub8’s and its allies’ insistence that Miami become a center for […]
Article · February 10, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
I stole some of these questions from Juan Carlos Zaldívar’s project, “Shifting Nature,” in which Zaldívar questions the ever-changing nature of being human. We are in constant motion, constant transformation, even when we don’t feel like we’re doing anything. Oh, and we die to release love… JuanCarlos Zaldivar. From “Shift.” Neil de la Flor: Who really […]
Article · February 3, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
If you haven’t heard of Diliana Alexander, the Filmgate Interactive Festival or Indie Film Club Miami, it’s ok. Here’s your chance to catch up with Alexander’s mission to foster and transform the transmedia industry in Miami. Diliana Alexader (front row, right), Pioneer Winter (front row, left), Jose Jacho (back row, left) and Gianfranco Biachi (back […]
Article · January 27, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
First performed at La Scala in 1842, “Nabucco” solidified Giuseppe Verdi’s stature and reputation as one of the greatest opera composers of the 19th century. This Saturday, January 25th, “Nabucco” returns to the Arsht Center for the 2013-2014 season of the Florida Grand Opera after three decades. “Nabucco” at Florida Grand Opera. “I am proud to […]
Article · January 23, 2014 by Neil de la Flor
The SandBox Series at Miami Theater Center (MTC) nurtures artists under the guidance of Series Producer Octavio Campos. The SandBox Series, a Knights Arts grantee, welcomes artists from all performance disciplines to apply for the 2014-2015 series. The SandBox Series. Octavio Campos. “For our cultural community to thrive, artists need spaces like Miami Theater Center […]
Article · January 20, 2014 by Neil de la Flor