After 34 years of creating modern dance in Miami, Momentum Dance Company’s artistic director and founder, Delma Iles, shows no sign of slowing. The company celebrates its anniversary this week at Miami Beach’s Colony Theatre with two performances featuring three new dance works from Iles herself. Leading Momentum Dance has…

Brazil’s Companhia Urbana de Dança returns to Miami this weekend with their critically acclaimed fusion of hip hop, capoeira, and contemporary dance. Presented by FUNDarte and the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, the performance will feature two of the company’s signature dance works, NÊGO (I. You. We. All Black) and Chapa Quente…

The Limon Dance Company celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, having existed more years without its founder than with him. The company’s survival is an homage to the man and his work. José Limón (1908-1972), a dancer and choreographer, created many works that are considered masterpieces of modern dance; his…

The Miami City Ballet charms us into believing that a supernatural realm can be breeched through the warm waters on South Florida’s shore. Among the whitecaps are fairies ready to conjure up mischief and help fools fall in love. As the company gets ready to close its 30th anniversary season…

Throughout his storied career, tap dance legend Savion Glover has combined his own brand of tap with a variety of collaborations. He has brought tap to the masses, whether onscreen or onstage. From Broadway and the Tony awards to films like Happy Feet, he has been one of the leading…

While Miami native Pioneer Winter has been active in the local dance community as a choreographer, he has also been wrapping up his Masters of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University. HOST, Winter’s current project, is also his thesis performance. The piece explores the potential of what Winter calls a “practice-based” approach…

Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as “Farruquito,” was born into one of the grand families of flamenco. His father was the late cantaor Juan Fernández Flores, “El Moreno.” His mother, the dancer Rosario Montoya, was referred to as “La Farruca.” And his grandfather, the founder of a flamenco school of…

New York-based choreographer Camille A. Brown is known for her wide embrace of many dance forms: from  African to tap to street styles. Part of the 2016 MDC Live Arts performance program, Brown will make her Miami debut at the Miami Dade County Auditorium on Saturday. Her project, Black Girl: Linguistic…

The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach is under construction until December, but the exhibitions continue. Through partnerships with other organizations, the museum has been presenting art and educational programs outside its own walls since 2015. The bassX series is one such initiative. The exhibitions at bassX are shown…

Alvin Ailey American Dance Company returns to the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts under the direction of artistic director Robert Battle. The program features the premiere of Miami native Battle’s Awakening, a new dance work commissioned by the Arsht Center as part of the theater’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebration…

Step Afrika! returns to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center this week for a celebration of dance with roots in African traditions during Black History Month. The rhythmic stepping tradition uses dancers bodies as percussive instruments through marches and response choreography. Based in Washington, D.C., and founded in 1994 by…

Toby Lerner Ansin, founder of Miami City Ballet (MCB), compares choreographer Justin Peck to famed ballet choreographer George Balanchine. “Every time you see their choreography, and depending on where you sit when you watch the ballet, you’ll take away something different,” Ansin says. For the founder’s 70th birthday, her family launched…

Trapped in a shoe store in Buenos Aires during an end-of-world hailstorm in 2001, I gritted as ice the size of ball bearings struck the steel roof like shotgun blasts. Later that afternoon, while at a dinner theater in Recoleta, it seemed to me someone had created a dance out…

Miami’s Fundarte planned to bring a searing production of Sophocles’ Antigone — or more precisely Antigonon, un Contingente Epico (perhaps best translated as a really big, maybe the biggest Antigone, ever) — to town last year. Everything was in place. Except visas. The production hails from Havana, Cuba, and though the visas…

Followers of Downton Abbey hear “gala” and have visions of long coats, silk top hats and mustaches waxed to a rapier point, haute couture dresses squared off like combative tulips, and a night of a lifetime. However, for an arts organization like Miami City Ballet, a gala is serious business. The…

Gabri Christa is back. This is the third year Tigertail has invited the dancer/choreographer/filmmaker/Guggenheim Fellow to its annual ScreenDance Miami Festival. Her films opened the 2015 festival, and this year Christa will offer a hands-on workshop. The dancer intends to focus her workshop on ways to direct dance for the…

Miami choreographer and dancer Pioneer Winter knows a thing or two about producing a live performance piece that integrates its surroundings in order for the piece to become fully realized. His Ebb/Flow performance took place aboard a floating canoe in Biscayne Bay for the SoBay Festival of the Arts in 2012,…

Children enthralled by orchestral music? An invitation to sing along with the symphony? In an age where orchestras either need to evolve or become extinct, Ted Ricketts has found a way for families to feel comfortable at a symphony concert. He’s created With Disney in Concert: Magical Music from the…

Jessica Trujillo is a world champion salsa dancer. Her team, the Omambo Dance Project, won the professional salsa team division at the World Latin Dance Cup last year. When she called her best friend back home in Los Angeles from the competition at the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, the champ…