If you ever wanted to dress up as your favorite dead poet, it’s time to drag out your Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost and Hafez costumes for O, Miami’s “Poetry is Dead” parade. The parade starts outside of The Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive and “will act as a funeral procession in reverse,” whereby the dead […]
Article · April 24, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
The Daniel Lewis Miami Dance Sampler was a mixed bag of performances that introduced audiences to contemporary dance, ballet, new flamenco and traditional African dance forms. The performances, billed as six- to eight-minute samplers, highlighted the scope of dance talent that exists in Miami. Produced by Dance NOW! Miami and Miami Dance Futures, the goal […]
Article · April 23, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
During dancer and choreographer Marissa Alma Nick‘s April residency at Inkub8 (a Knight Arts grantee), Nick has developed what she terms Phase I of “Qualia”—an uninterrupted four-part performance that merges the arts of screen-dance, live performance, sound and installation. Qualia is a philosophical concept that refers to “individual instances of subjective, conscious experience,” such as […]
Article · April 22, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
If you ever wanted to get a tattoo while listening to poetry, then rush over to the Broken Shaker on Friday, April 26th at 7:30 p.m., when Tom Healy and Kevin Young will read their poetry while tattoo artists from Ocho Placas Tattoo Company are on site creating tattoos. Tattoo artist Duke Riley, who collaborated […]
Article · April 19, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
“Democracy runs on empowerment. If a population doesn’t feel empowered, it won’t exercise its rights. Making art makes us feel human, and to feel human is to feel capable of anything.” —P. Scott Cunningham, founder of the O, Miami Poetry Festival. The Overtown Youth Center poetry workshop, which was part of O, Miami. For P. […]
Article · April 18, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
Giuseppe Verdi’s wildly popular, splendidly tragic and sumptuously opulent “La Traviata” closes Florida Grand Opera’s 72nd season with performances scheduled at the Arsht Center and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. “La Traviata” by Florida Grand Opera. The story of “La Traviata,” which literally means the fallen woman, was adapted from the novel “La […]
Article · April 15, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
Week three of the O, Miami Poetry Festival is fast-approaching, and there’s a torrent of poetry readings and related events that will inspire and illuminate your creative impulses. All you have to do is grab a friend, lover, family member or neighbor, select an event here and go. Last weekend I attended an O, Miami […]
Article · April 12, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
Miami Dade College’s MDC Live Arts will transport audiences to the heart of Argentina, where tango courses through the country like the Rio de la Plata. The Argentinian-born, Brooklyn-based bassist and producer Pablo Aslan and his quintet will perform Piazzolla in Brooklyn, which is a work that illuminates the intersection between jazz and tango. The […]
Article · April 11, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
South Florida poets Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton and Julie Marie Wade gave brave, cut-to-the-bone, laugh-out-loud, tear-jerking performances from their latest works of poetry at Books & Books last Sunday as part of the O, Miami Poetry Festival. I haven’t been to a reading with such an enthusiastic crowd and cadre of poets. O, Miami. Photo […]
Article · April 9, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
“Marie Chouinard has consistently produced intriguing visual and highly physical works that at the same time support the intellect. Her pieces stand alone in the lexicon of dance.” —Mary Luft, Executive Director, Tigertail Productions. Marie Chouinard must not be missed. Her work defies definition and creates a new language of its own. For two nights […]
Article · April 8, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
As National Poetry Month swings into gear, the O, Miami Poetry Festival, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, returns with the goal of delivering a poem to all 2.6 million Miami-Dade residents. This is a giant task, but poetry has enormous wings. Wings that can and will transport the ethereal […]
Article · April 4, 2013 by Neil de la Flor