Mia Leonin

Awash in sunlight, around 50 women stand in a circle on the rooftop performance space of Casa Gaia in Old Havana, Cuba. Karen Rodríguez guides them through a series of improvisational movements. Soft spoken and radiant, Rodríguez encourages the participants to walk around freely, dancing and moving as they wish...

Miami native, Octavio Campos, founder and director of the arts organization Camposition, has built a local and international reputation for creating provocative, multidisciplinary performances that reinvent the boundaries between dance, theater, and activism. Now after a two-year hiatus, Camposition debuts Intention Intervention, a hybrid dance theater piece commissioned by Sleepless...

FRI 6/18 Asked how long it took to build a theater for Miami Dade College's drama program, Prometeo, actress/artistic director Teresa Maria Rojas unabashedly replies, "Thirty-three years!" On the telephone, Rojas's eloquent and effusive Spanish is suddenly cut short by the dry pronouncement in English that Prometeo's permanent home was...

SAT 6/12 As artistic director of Miami's Teatro Avante and the International Hispanic Theatre Festival, Mario Ernesto Sanchez is finding out that in a post-9/11 world, running such a festival requires some psychic abilities. Who would have guessed Spain's government would abruptly change hands, thereby affecting a Spanish theater group's...

WED 6/9 Making the foolhardy move of vacationing in Colombia may not be a bad idea if you have Steven Dudley as your guide. Or maybe it is since it's unlikely the welcome wagon is ready to greet him again. Before gracing our town with his hard-nosed presence, the former...