Photo: Andrea Askowitz at a Lip Service event. Photo courtesy of Andrea Askowitz. After nine years of bringing true stories from the Miami community to life, Lip Service creator Andrea Askowitz is stepping down as head of the organization. Her final Lip Service show is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Miracle Theatre in […]
Article · October 14, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Photos: Geoff Sobelle and Annie Saunders in “Holoscenes.” Photos by Lars Jan, courtesy of MDC Live Arts. For 25 years, MDC Live Arts, formerly known as Cultura del Lobo, has brought the most eclectic and innovative contemporary choreographers, dance companies, performance artists and musicians from around the world to Miami. In 2003, MDC Live Arts […]
Article · October 12, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Photo: José Villar-Portela at an event celebrating a “Jai-Alai Magazine” issue release. Photo by Jessica Kassin. In 2014, Jai-Alai Books won a three-year Knight Arts Challenge grant to create a local publishing house and help shape the Miami’s literary identity. Executive Director P. Scott Cunningham wore a cesta (a basket used in the game of […]
Article · September 30, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
This post has been updated with the details on Garcia’s appearance at the book fair in November. Later this fall, thousands of authors, publishers, agents and book lovers will descend upon Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus for the Miami Book Fair International–an annual event during which Knight Foundation supports a variety of programming. Since its […]
Article · September 23, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Photo courtesy of Filmgate Interactive. When it comes to horror films, I’m a hater. The flincher. The guy who screams, grabs the person next to him and closes his eyes when the blood starts to flow and all hell breaks loose. Yet despite my trepidation (or irrational fear), I’m going to go, eyes wide open, […]
Article · September 16, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Photo: “Eiko in Fukushima…” featuring choreography by Eiko Otake and photography by William Johnston. Otake will perform a related work, “A Body in Places,” as part of Tigertail’s 2015-16 season. President Obama’s recent trip to the Exit Glacier in the Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska wasn’t just a hike in the woods. For the President, […]
Article · September 15, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Choreography featuring dancers from the West Palm Beach, Fla.-based Demetrius Klein Dance Company. Photo by Joey Bargsten. “MelanchoLalaland”—an opera conceived by composer and Florida Atlantic University professor Joey Bargsten—opens Sept. 13 at the Miami Beach Cinematheque. The transmedia work, which won a Knight Arts Challenge South Florida grant, presents a not-so-distant, dystopian future in which […]
Article · August 31, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Photo: Grass stains artist Marissa Alma Nick. Photo by Jeffery Salter. “Adaptive Chassis:SFL” is a site-specific performance piece created by dancer and choreographer Marissa Alma Nick for Grass Stains, a project that was one of the winners of the 2014 Knight Arts Challenge South Florida. In the work, Nick addresses life in Miami after climate […]
Article · August 28, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Photo: ArtWorks Dance interns review arabesque techniques, part of the basic ballet training that is part of their work with Internship Facilitator Alejandro Bahia. In her role as executive director of Arts For Learning, Sheila Womble has led the organization through a period of tremendous growth that has had a lasting impact on the lives […]
Article · August 11, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Niurca Marquez. Photo by Nicole Wolcott of Keigwin & Co. The Pioneer Winter Collective won a 2014 South Florida Knight Arts Challenge grant with its proposal for a site-specific performance initiative called Grass Stains. The project aims to articulate an exchange between a work of art or performance, and the place in which that work […]
Article · August 5, 2015 by Neil de la Flor
Big Night in Little Haiti. Photo by Neil de la Flor. On opening night at Laundromat Art Space, a new artist-run collective on the corner of Northeast Second Avenue and 59th Street in Little Haiti, artist Andres Martinez unfurled a giant sign over the front of the building. “Sorry we’re open,” it read. The words are […]
Article · July 22, 2015 by Neil de la Flor