When dancing in tandem with the elements, anything can happen, which is part of the beauty of The National Water Dance Project’s site-specific performance on Saturday, taking place on the sand and on the edge of the water in North Beach. “The sand, the water, affects the way the body…
By Fernando Gonzalez, artburstmiami.com We’ll never know what Mr. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would’ve made of Ms. Kelly Clarkson, but the first movement of “A Little Night Music” flowing into Clarkson’s “Since You’ve Been Gone” certainly makes for a startling mash-up. Welcome to the world of Well-Strung, a singing string quartet…
An Alonzo King dance is almost unimaginable without facility of movement, those forcefully shifting patterns of gorgeous bodies that make for a seductive surface. Yet what gives greater value to the program this San Francisco-based choreographer’s LINES Ballet is bringing to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center this weekend is…
The best choreographers are prodigious ministers, sealing holy unions between movement and sound. To great effect, Balanchine made it his gospel to “see the music, hear the dance,” the inspiration for Miami City Ballet’s second program of the season, which kicks off this Friday. MCB’s offerings are diverse while representing…
Most performers will agree that a show never really feels like it is complete until close to the closing night of a run. This sentiment was true for Teo Castellanos when he premiered Fat Boy at Miami Light Project’s Light Box at Goldman Warehouse in 2011. He’s back with a…
The December holidays are approaching and along with them, as sure as thicker waists and thinner wallets, The Nutcracker. Big-scaled or modest, all-local or propped up by imported talent, there’s a production of America’s most popular ballet to suit any taste. But please don’t take the predictable assortment for granted…
Ronen Koresh, long a distinguished dancer and since 1991 artistic director of his own company, is fearless in his defiance of borders. Appearing at the Arsht Center this week, the choreography of this Israeli native, now established in Philadelphia, draws from ballet, folk, modern and jazz dance and uses music…
Dance is the most ephemeral of the arts. You can buy a picture, a sculpture, a photograph, you can buy a CD and own a composition, and you can even buy and own a script. Dance, however, is an explosion of energy that exits in a finite space and time,…
Pamela Z has been performing solo voice concerts for over three decades, but she rarely sounds alone on stage. Instead, she creates a rich multimedia experience using electronics to multiply her voice and trigger sampled sounds and video. Although the term “processed voice” applies — much as it does for…
Music and spoken word are the traditional bedfellows of radio. When one listens to these art forms, it’s generally the imagination that must create a visual aid to the aural story. Dance, in its highly visual nature, is not usually associated with a radio program. Until now. Presented by MDC…
TU Dance, a 12-member dance company, will be performing for one night only on Saturday at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. It’s a highly collaborative dance initiative, a company that routinely mixes up the idioms of classical ballet, African dance, modern dance and urban vernacular. Perhaps not surprising then,…
The acclaimed and crowd-pleasing Tel Aviv-based Batsheva Dance Company, celebrating its 50th Jubilee, returns for an adapted version of Deca Dance, the company’s montage of signature past repertory pieces. The dance will be performed exclusively in Miami — which will also be the company’s opening city during its 2014 U.S…
Romeo was drenched in sweat, but Juliet didn’t seem to mind as she clung to him. In fact, she’d gotten a bit dewy herself going through love’s demanding paces. Within little more than an hour, the couple had circled each other at a ball, shared intimacies under a balcony, and…
It’s that time of the year. South Florida’s dance scene is revving up and the annual Daniel Lewis Miami Dance Sampler returns once more to give the community a glimpse into just how varied and rich an array of dancing is available to us to choose from this season. The…
Perhaps you’re wondering what singer-pianist Johnny O’Neal will do during his appearance on Saturday. So is he. “I never go by a set list,” says O’Neal, who will perform at the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, the first performance of Tigertail Production’s season. “I don’t like not being in the moment. “I…
The time is the 1930s. The place is the wintry mountains of the Alps. You are part of a journalism team investigating a promising lead when BAM! Attack! Your lead is gone — but a bigger story is looming. You’re trapped! Now you are on the run, the literal fate…
Romeo and Juliet struggle through a Mad Max world to the sensuality, discipline and stirring rhythms of flamenco as warring tribes compete for resources in the aftermath of civilization’s collapse. No, not a drug-assisted night at an edgy Latin dance club on South Beach but the basic plots of Siudy…
Siempre Flamenco, a Miami based Flamenco arts organization, is widely recognized in town for the quality of the festivals they have presented. The organization was founded by the husband and wife team of Paco and Celia Fonta — he is a Flamenco guitarist and singer; she is a Flamenco dancer…
“I’ve got one foot in Miami and one foot in the Caribbean,” says Neri Torres, the founder and director of the Ifé-Ilé Dance Company, which will host its 16th annual Ifé-Ilé Afro-Cuban Dance Festival from Thursday, August 28, through Saturday, August 30. This is true for her culturally, as a…
The 29th season of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival (IHTF) of Miami, which runs July 10-27, showcases leading theater companies from across Latin America, Spain, and the United States. This year, the festival honors Argentina. It also features one Argentina’s most celebrated writers and theater companies — the eponymous Cibrián-Mahler…
In its fifth year of Out in the Tropics — a performing art series that highlights contemporary LGBT artists and their work in poetry, dance, and theater — FUNDarte invited back San Francisco-based Sean Dorsey Dance to unveil new work, Uncovered: The Diary Project. Two years ago, Dorsey and company…
On a recent afternoon, Carlota Pradera and Lazaro Godoy both peered at the empty, black performance space and pondered the narrative of the upcoming show, Bare Bones. Neither would reveal the show’s narrative, if it has one; only that every aspect of the production, from the tree trunks to the…
