The South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center (SMDCAC) is about community. It’s a space that opens its doors to the varied and diverse residents of South Miami-Dade and beyond. It’s also where art, culture and even self-defense converge to strengthen and enrich the community. Step Afrika. This Saturday SMDCAC will celebrate the close of Women’s History […]
Article · April 1, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
Jazz at Lincoln Center announced that the Coral Gables-based Community Arts Program (CAP) All-Star Jazz Ensemble, with the support of a Knight Foundation grant, is one of the 15 finalists for the 18th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. The competition will take place in New York City from May 10-12, […]
Article · March 25, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
“Unexpected Opera in Unexpected Places,” recipient of a Knight Arts Challenge grant, is a new three-year program developed by the Florida Grand Opera (FGO) to expose lesser-known operas to the South Florida community by staging them in unorthodox spaces. Thursday night, FGO opens its first performance at The Stage, with a double-bill of tango featuring […]
Article · March 20, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
“Love, love, the clouds went/up the tower of the sky/like triumphant washerwomen, and it all/glowed in blue, all like a single star….” —Pablo Neruda The Cleveland Orchestra is astonishing, but after seeing Joshua Bell play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in January and Berlioz’s masterful performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in February, I thought I’d […]
Article · March 18, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
Tigertail Productions always brings innovative, cutting-edge performing artists to Miami that challenge our preconceived notions of what performance art is and can be. These artists push the conceptual boundaries of art and create new points of reference. Emily Johnson is no exception. Emily Johnson. Emily Johnson is a native Alaskan who played basketball, ran long distance […]
Article · March 15, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
Dancer and choreographer Pioneer Winter’s first one-man show, “Pie Solo,” opens this Friday, March 15 and runs through March 30 at The Sandbox at the Miami Theater Center. In “Pie Solo,” Winter will explore faith and religion, father-son relationships, sexual identity and the hyper-sexual side of queer culture. He will also attempt to address the […]
Article · March 11, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
FUNDarte and Miami Light Project open the 6th Global Cuba Fest, a month-long festival of performances that celebrates the contemporary music and artists of Cuba and the Caribbean Diaspora, with a historic first-ever U.S. performance by Cuban songstress Ivette Cepeda on March 9th at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Ivette Cepeda, widely considered to be one […]
Article · March 7, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
Letty Bassart’s “Good,God, Go” for Miami Made 2013 was a wonderfully entropic, energetic, comedic and well-timed performance packed with a plethora of elements and symbolism that flew over my head like the wooden canaries hovering above me.Those yellow canaries, which served a symbolic backbone for the performance, referenced their proverbial escape from the coal mine. […]
Article · March 5, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
I remember attending performances at the old New World space on Lincoln Road, which is now H&M, before I knew the difference between Mozart and mambo. Now, I know a little bit more about music, but every time I go to the New World Center, I learn something new from Michael Tilson Thomas and the […]
Article · February 28, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
Co-dependence is like a binary star-system where two stars orbit one another around their center of gravity. They can’t escape, and they’re stuck in an almost eternal dance until they exhaust their nuclear reactors. However, if the two stars are close enough, they can exchange mass and even tear one another apart—ending their relationship. “A […]
Article · February 25, 2013 by Neil de la Flor
A few months ago, I saw Jenny Larsson’s “Look at how you’re looking at me when I’m telling you this,” featuring performers Celeste Fraser-Delgado, William Rey, Fernando Landeros, Oscar Fuentes, Matthew Taylor and Larsson. “Look at how you’re looking” is Larsson’s thesis project for her MFA in Performing Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The […]
Article · February 21, 2013 by Neil de la Flor