Are you ready for a Miami Made Weekend? This innovative festival of dance, music, theater and works in progress comes to the Arsht Center March 3-6, 2011, and it is free and open to the public. The event consists of three initiatives: Here & Now: 2011, showcasing works commissioned by the Arsht Center and Miami […]
Article · February 15, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Spain’s premier dance company, Ballet Nacional de España, returns to Miami, Feb. 23-26, 2011, to the Arsht Center for a week of performances during Flamenco Festival Miami 2011. “The South Florida community enthusiastically embraced Flamenco Festival Miami from the very first soleá,” said M. John Richard, president and CEO of the Adrienne Arsht Center. “This […]
Article · February 11, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
This Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11 and 12, Tigertail Productions will present Eiko & Koma’s Retrospective Project at the Colony Theatre on South Beach, along with a panel discussion, a Delicious Movement Workshop and video installation. For 40 years, the legendary Japanese-born choreographers and dancers Eiko & Koma have humanized dance through the still harmony […]
Article · February 8, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
The Hannah Kahn Poetry Foundation, the John L. and James S. Knight Foundation and Broward College will present poet and author, Sapphire, on Friday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Cultural Theater in Pembroke Pines. Sapphire, who began her writing career as performance poet, published her first book of poetry during the […]
Article · February 2, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
What do you believe in? What scares you? What turns you on? And what is beauty? These are just some of the questions the Jess Curtis/Gravity troupe posed on a chalkboard—or alluded to—during the arc of their performance of Dances For Non/Fictional Bodies at Inkub8 last Friday night. After experiencing Dances for Non/Fictional Bodies, the […]
Article · February 1, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
It seems like every female artist who has a husky voice is compared to Tina Turner. It is a convenient comparison, however it undermines the individual. When I first heard Eva Ayllón’s voice, I managed a clothing factory in Miami where Peruvian seamstresses sewed dresses to the sensual and complex rhythms of Afro-Peruvian and indigenous […]
Article · January 26, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
DNE! launches its 11th season on February 26th and 27th, 2011 at the Colony Theater on Miami Beach with a remix of Luigi Pirandello‘s modern theater classic Six Characters in Search of an Author and the South Florida premiere of works by internationally renowned West Coast choreographer Tandy Beal. Beal is known for her style of […]
Article · January 24, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Gravity is the tendency of objects with mass to accelerate and accrete toward each other. It keeps us grounded and it keeps us in our orbit around the sun. It also informs our understanding of how the world supposedly works. On Friday and Saturday, Jan. 28–29, 2011, the Florida Dance Association and Tigertail will present […]
Article · January 19, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
Are you ready for a seriously surreal, stunningly tragicomic and exhilarating performance featuring a cast of Miami’s most exciting and innovative break dance, modern dance, theater and drag performers? Well, come to the Arsht Center Jan. 28-30 for the Miami premiere of Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre’s performances of Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret and […]
Article · January 17, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
YoungArts, the core program of the National Federation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA), will host the 30th Annual YoungArts Week in Miami. YoungArts recognizes and supports America’s most talented young artists in the visual, literary and performing arts. During YoungArts Week, Jan. 10-15, the nation’s top student artists will participate in a week-long event […]
Article · January 11, 2011 by Neil de la Flor
I interviewed Miami based artist Michelle Weinberg on the eve of Not the Usual Suspects: [new] Art in [new] Public [new] Places, an exhibition sponsored by ArtCenter/South Florida and Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. The show introduces recently completed and upcoming public art projects by more than 20 local and world renowned artists […]
Article · January 11, 2011 by Neil de la Flor