In this life, everything is temporary and often upside down — even our memories. They are fragile, ebullient, free-flowing fragments and figments of our imagination reconstructed from thin air and space. Our memories are an elusive and magical web of mass confusion that we carry with us everywhere we go. “In This Place,” a new […]
Article · February 20, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
Note on Commercial Theatre You’ve taken my blues and gone — … And you fixed ‘em So they don’t sound like me. … But someday somebody’ll Stand up and talk about me, And write about me — Black and beautiful — And sing about me, And put on plays about me! I reckon it’ll be […]
Article · February 16, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
This week is all about memory and a canoe with new works by Miami choreographers Heather Maloney and Pioneer Winter. First up, choreographer Maloney, in collaboration with dancers Joanne Barrett and Shaneeka Harell, will premiere “In This Place,” a new multidisciplinary performance described as physical theater that uses memory and the recollection of them as […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
Let’s face it. Miami is s expensive, especially if you want to hear live music during a night on the town. However, thanks to Miami Made Festival 2012: When the Sun Goes Down, March 1 through 4, 2012, you have the chance to listen to hip local bands do their thing Miami-style — for free. […]
Article · February 9, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
Natasha Tsakos exemplifies everything that Miami Light Project’s Here & Now 2012 (Knight Arts grantee) represents — the best of Miami’s emerging performance artists. “Omen,” produced, created and directed by Tsakos, took the audience on a stunning 20 minute highly stylized, high-tech virtual cirque-esque journey that critiques human history. Even though Tsakos could not perform […]
Article · February 6, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
Miami Light Project’s (MLP) Here and Now 2012 program opens tonight at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse with commissioned works by a diverse group of South Florida-based performing and multimedia artists. The unifying theme of Here and Now 2012, which includes the use of 3-D mapping technology, a glimpse into terror and nightmares, the […]
Article · February 2, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
We all think we know the spunky English girl who falls down a rabbit hole and emerges in a trippy dream world. Fernando Calzadilla, who co-wrote an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic English fairy tale “Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland” with Stephanie Ansin, agrees that the actor is “an athlete of the emotions.” “Alice’s Adventures In […]
Article · January 30, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
If you haven’t been to “Pulse” at the New World Symphony, you haven’t experienced one of the most exhilarating and energetic fusions of live electronica with classical music anywhere. For four hours last Friday night, the famed New World Center turned into a mega nightclub, a new age spacecraft, where a nebulae of lights and […]
Article · January 26, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
One of the casualties of Tigertail‘s (a Knight Arts grantee) “Tool is Loot” is that it didn’t connect with the audience. At times interesting and bizarre, funny and absurd, emotional yet dry, the performance poses a vexing question for even the most patient viewer: what’s the point? Throughout a period of one year, choreographers and […]
Article · January 23, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
“Tell a truth on purpose. Tempt with exactitude. Make the work you need. Risk being loved.” These are wise words from Haitian-American poet, playwright and spoken word artist Lenelle Moïse, who returns to Miami Feb. 6 through 10 for Knight Arts grantee Tigertail Production’s “SpeakOut” spoken word LGBTQ teen residency. The week includes school and community […]
Article · January 19, 2012 by Neil de la Flor
Next Sunday, Jan. 22, the New World Symphony will host its fourth annual kid-friendly “It’s a Family Affair!” featuring a concert and a hands-on “21st century musical wonderland.” This is the event for parents and kids, especially for those who haven’t been to the New World Center and love music. At 2 p.m., the New […]
Article · January 16, 2012 by Neil de la Flor