Choreographer Gabri Christa Explains the Art of Filming Dance

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…

The Nine Miami Guys You Will Probably Meet This Year

It doesn’t matter how long you’ve lived in the Magic City – whether you’ve been here for years or only recently arrived, you’ve quickly learned that you probably won’t be finding your soul mate in Miami anytime soon. From guys who put booty over brains, flash their money or really just…

Red Dot Art Fair Acquired by Redwood Media Group

One of Wynwood’s most reasonably priced art fairs was acquired earlier this month in one of the many upheavals seen in Miami’s first Art District. Over the past nine years, Red Dot Art Fair established a strong name for itself as a place to buy moderately priced pieces for your…

The Ten Best Things to Do in Miami This Week

Friday, January 22 Usually, orchestra members dress in black formalwear. Though the fellows of the New World Symphony, America’s orchestral academy, will likely follow that centuries-old tradition during Pulse: White Out the New World Symphony, they’re encouraging audience members to do the reverse and wear white. The New World Symphony…

Incisive and Funny, The Lady in the Van Doesn’t Stink

The movie they’re selling isn’t the movie this is. Sony Pictures Classics is peddling Nicholas Hytner’s film of Alan Bennett’s play and memoir The Lady in the Van like it’s the usual twinkly Best Exotic time-with-our-elders holiday entertainment. There’s Maggie Smith, dressed up as what my grandmother used to call…

In 45 Years, Rampling and Courtenay Lead Us in Looking Back

“Every film is a documentary of its actors,” Jean-Luc Godard once said. Starring Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling, Andrew Haigh’s shattering marital drama 45 Years expands that maxim: As we gaze at and listen to these performers, whose characters reflect on nearly a half-century together — almost as long as…

ScreenDance Miami Festival Sheds Light on an Underground Movement

Screendance, sometimes called videodance, was born decades ago in the work of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. A lack of performance space led dancers to experiment with new ways of presenting their work. The term refers to “the short film form in dance [that is] diverse, global, emergent, alive, trans-media,…

Miami Startup Taxfyle Looks to Uber-ize Your Taxes This Year

It’s a new year, which means millions of people are renewing their dusty gym membership, setting new goals, and putting together plans that will result in 2016 being the best version of “you.” Then bam — you remember tax season is just around the corner and your motivation is killed. You plop…

13 Hours Trades Truth for Explosions, but It’s Not Truly Political

Benghazi is a hashtag battle cry, a call to arms that many Americans don’t understand. Unlike the simplicity of “Remember the Alamo!” a bleat of “Benghazi!” still has people wondering, “Wait, what happened? And why are we mad?” Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi has an explanation,…

The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend

The best time of the week is finally here: the weekend. Miami offers just about every activity this weekend. On the music front, you can catch Jon Secada at Seminole Theatre, Butch at Heart Nightclub, Lil Jon at LIV, Afrobeta at E11even Rooftop, and Borgore at Icon Miami. On Saturday, Life in…

How Critics Became TV’s Newest Stars

Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Duncan) hellbent on annihilating a play before she’d even seen it. Birdman was joined in its release year by other unfair portraits of critics in Top…