Metamoto is a collaborative presentation of the New World Symphony and Miami Dance Futures, and will feature two dances including Letty Bassart’s Requiem for a Mustard Seed Closes in Song, Act II, and Yara Travieso’s SET. In Requiem, Letty Bassart collaborates with composer Daniel Bernard Roumain, a quartet of New World Symphony Fellows, and visual […]
Article · April 19, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
The O, Miami! poetry festival begins week three with a reading by local poets, a talk and reading with leading figures of the of Argentinian Avant-Garde scene, a poetry reading at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, plus an fascinating array of cinematic events scheduled at the Miami Beach Cinematheque and O, Cinema. It’s nearly impossible to […]
Article · April 18, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
As the second full week of O, Miami! comes to a close, I’m overwhelmed with all of the amazing events still scheduled to take place in the coming weeks. If you are looking for something to do this weekend and beyond that includes a little poetry in the heart of Miami, plan to visit one […]
Article · April 15, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
This past weekend, poet and classics scholar Anne Carson and artist Robert Currie brought Stacks to life at the Moore Building during the O, Miami Poetry Festival. The performance, based on artist Peter Cole’s sculptures of stacked boxes and other objects, was choreographed by Jonah Bokaer and performed by dancers Logan Kruger, Catherine Miller, Silas […]
Article · April 13, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
The indelible voice of poet and classics scholar Anne Carson brought poetry to life at the Moore Building for the O, Miami poetry festival with a collaborative performance of her latest work, “Nox.” In “Nox,” the book and the performance, we discover a stoic Anne Carson who reacts (and grieves) to the death of her […]
Article · April 12, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Thanks to P. Scott Cunningham and his amazing team at the University of Wynwood, along with the financial support of Knight Foundation, O, Miami has created a dynamic poetry festival that has brought poetry to life and to the residents of Miami-Dade County through a series of craft talks, poetry readings and an array of […]
Article · April 10, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Last night the New World Symphony opened its doors to magic. To the magic of poetry and music, to the language of Rilke and Goethe, Monteverdi and Mozart, Bernstein and Debussy. New World Symphony Conducting Fellow Teddy Abrams hosted the event aptly titled, “Inside the Music: Music in Poetry” in conjunction with the O, Miami […]
Article · April 7, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
National Poetry Month is here and the crew at How Pedestrian, a video blog that seeks to make poetry more accessible to the general public, is in town to help the organizers behind O, Miami bring a poem to every person in Miami-Dade county before the end of the month. For 11 days, the team […]
Article · April 6, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
What do evangelical alphabet primers, National Socialist toothpaste pamphlets, Czech photo-texts, motocar marketing booklets, poems comprised on nonsense sounds, and end-of-the-world scenarios filmed by the angel of Notre Dame have in common? The Wolfsonian-FIU. In Rewriting the World: Primers and Poetry in the Age of Confusion, which will be on display from April 7th and […]
Article · April 4, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
O, Miami, with the support of the Knight Foundation, brings poet, essayist, Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Anne Carson to the Moore Building in Miami’s Design District where she’ll perform two dance collaborations—Nox & Stacks—with Merce Cunningham Dance Company members Rashaun Mitchell and Jonah Bokaer. Carson’s most recent collection, Nox, is a hit in the […]
Article · March 30, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Teens and parents, get ready for an amazing week with Sunni Patterson. The fire-breathing New Orleans based performer and award-winning poet will take part in Tigertail’s WordSpeak, (March 28 – April 1, 2011) an ongoing spoken word project for South Florida teens that includes workshops, slams and open mike performances. WordSpeak provides Miami teens with […]
Article · March 29, 2011 by Neil de la Flor