Playing on the words “armor” and “amour,” Miami-based choreographer Lazaro Godoy takes on the complexities of a key human experience: love. Working with a team of collaborators, including creative partner and performer Carlota Pradera, Godoy is extending the range of his creative language. Until now, movement has been his primary artistic mode. With ArMOUR, he incorporates still visual images, space, and movement.
Tigertail’s ScreenDance Miami festival is now in its fourth year. One of the few festivals in the nation dedicated solely to movement for film and video, ScreenDance aims high. The goal: to present top-caliber dance films showcasing makers locally and from around the world.
Last October, it was announced that Miami New Drama (MiND) would take over the historic Colony Theatre on Lincoln Road. And now, as part of that take-over, MiND is set to put on a play that requires full audience immersion. Terror is a courtroom drama unlike most others in that the folks sitting in the seats play a pivotal role themselves — as the jury. And the case they’re presented is an all-too-familiar one in our post-911 world.
GableStage’s Joseph Adler has made a career of producing shows about the multilayered complexities of the human experience. And no playwright portrays the dark, flawed mosaic of what makes people tick quite like Stephen Adly Guirgis. His 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning Between Riverside and Crazy, which opens at GableStage at the…
Thirty-two playwrights, a half-dozen directors, and around 90 plays in less than two hours: This is the South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, now in its fifth year. The festival, performed at the Deering Estate in Palmetto Bay and curated by Caitlin Wees and Dominic D’Andrea, has become a phenomenon. South…
If you like Saturday Night Live, you probably like improv comedy. Many of SNL’s biggest names cut their teeth in improv troupes; it’s where Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, and many others honed their skills. Poehler is a founder of New York’s Upright Citizens Brigade; Fey and Murray are both grads of Second City in Chicago; and Ferrell got his career off the ground with the Groundlings in L.A.
The white walls and well-trod floor of a light-pierced studio at Miami City Ballet enclose a charmed space — a field of incalculable energy. Inside, sets of coupled dancers rehearse in quick succession two company premieres for their second program of the season, opening Friday. On the schedule this day: the antic maneuvers of Calcium Light Night, Peter Martins’ 1977 choreographic debut, and Carousel Pas de Deux, a fairground for spinning passions, from the end of Kenneth MacMillan’s career.
Myth has it that a Cuban who doesn’t dance is a rare creature. Like the endangered Florida panther, you could live an entire lifetime without ever seeing one. “We come from a dancing island,” explains Fernando Sáez, founder and executive director of Cuban contemporary dance company Malpaso. From Afro-Cuban ritual…
When YoungArts alumna Isabela Dos Santos, originally from Weston but now a Miami Beach resident, found out she’d been accepted to the prestigious cultural program, it felt magical. “Going to YoungArts Week was like when Harry Potter finds out he’s a wizard and there’s a whole world out there for him. Suddenly, everything that I felt was ‘off’ about me was a superpower,” said Santos, a 2011 winner in cinematic arts.
Lizz Winstead can’t help but be funny. Even in the middle of a Minnesota thunder snow (“it’s a thing,” she insists), she quips about being the youngest of five, saying she always had to work to get attention. But now she’s not just trying to get her parents to listen. She’s trying to get America to listen too.
The year 2016 is over, and good riddance. The past 12 months catalogued the deaths of David Bowie, John Glenn, Elie Wiesel, Fidel Castro, Muhammad Ali, Prince, George Michael, Alan Rickman, Carrie Fisher, Anton Yelchin, and many other figures who shaped global culture. And though many blame the number 2016…
“What time is it? Showtime,” I whisper to myself as I begin my audition for Hamilton: A Musical at the Florida International University School of Music. “But I just might rewind.” A woman throws her head back and squeezes a honey-bear bottle until a dollop drops into her mouth.
Artistic director Peter London is never at a loss for words. That’s especially true when he describes what compelled him to undertake two powerhouse pieces of music for his newest performance venture of the Peter London Global Dance Company, which will be held at the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Carnival Theater…
What happens to old dances? Do they slowly disappear as choreographers and dancers move on to other projects? Not if an effort is made to revive the piece — reconstruct it and present it anew to an audience. That’s the case with Ritmo Jondo (Deep Rhythm), a seminal work by Doris Humphrey, one of the foremost choreographers and dancers of modern dance.
If you see yourself as the next George Washington, Schuyler sister, Aaron Burr, or Alexander Hamilton, you can audition in an open casting call for a role in Hamilton: An American Musical.
Courtney Love is a feminist icon. Courtney Love is a bitch. She’s a powerful force of raw emotion, or an evil nymph who slept her way to fame. She’s a mournful widow thrust in the harsh spotlight of shame and accusation, a frazzled single mother struggling to raise a girl-child…
There’s hardly a worthwhile production hitting a local stage that doesn’t have the talents of Ann Marie Olson at hand. A music theater graduate from New World School of the Arts, Olson is a Carbonell Award winner and two-time nominee. Miami New Times’ sister paper New Times Broward/Palm Beach named her Best Actress of 2015, she was a recipient of a Silver Palm Award for Outstanding Contribution to South Florida Theater, and she has a voice described as “golden” by numerous critics of the stage.
“I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power,” dancer and choreographer Jose Limon explained before his death in 1972, “dance as Michelangelo’s visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.” The late dance pioneer’s vision still endures in the company he founded, now in its 70th year — a tribute to the man and the artist and those who believe in his gifts.
Pioneer Winter is not your average choreographer. The 28-year-old native Miamian has a master’s degree in public health and epidemiology, along with a master of fine arts in choreography. He combines his two fields of interest to create avant-garde, socially conscious, and experimental work.
Around the nation tonight, Americans will continue to grapple with political division and unrest. But inside the Jewel Box at the National YoungArts Foundation, dancers and audiences will celebrate a unique collaboration of creative forces, with local and international arts groups coming together to create a uniquely Miamian masterpiece.
No, Louis CK didn’t take down Donald Trump last night. CK’s bit endorsing Hillary Clinton on Conan went viral in the weeks leading up to last Tuesday’s election. The clip’s popularity had some fans wondering whether CK would add a political update to his set, which he’s been perfecting on the road for months.
Before the announcement of their retirement as principal dancers with Miami City Ballet last spring, Carlos Guerra explained the artistic side of his relationship with his wife, Jennifer Kronenberg: “We share a complementary, balanced dynamic as a couple. I always get nervous a week before the ballet opens…
