The Swiss DJ/producer spoke with New Times in advance of his set at Heart Festival this Saturday. Oliva discusses his feelings about the commercialism and external forces harming the health and long-term prospects of dance culture.
The English DJ-producer has made multiple stops in the Magic City over his decade-plus career sharing his love of music with the masses.
We’re on the cusp of spending hours chatting with relatives, watching football until our eyelids sag, and snapping our bodies out of ketosis with a full-on assault of carbs. Thanksgiving usually revolves around food, football, and family, but there’s no reason it has to be defined solely by those three.
Dan Travieso is leading the efforts to make Coconut Grove an essential spot for Miami’s nightlife scene.
“The number one thing people have said to me is, ‘I can’t believe South Florida is finally going to have a real dayclub,'” says Matt Minichino, Hard Rock’s corporate vice president of nightlife/daylife.
For Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater artistic director Robert Battle, this week marks a special return, not just to the Arsht Center, where his company performs annually, but also to the city where he grew up. “It’s more personal [performing in Miami]; it reminds me where I come from,” says Battle, a Liberty City native. “My mom [Dessie Williams] still lives in the same house. I used to dance on the marble floor of our front porch. The Arsht Center wasn’t far away.”
