Lately, we have been reminded that dance is a fragile art form, as fleeting as life itself. Merce Cunningham’s company disbanded at the end of 2011, a year and half after his death. And Pina, Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated documentary about famed German choreographer Pina Bausch, is a memorial to the…
Local choreographer and performer Heather Maloney likes to disassemble the ways that we think, see, feel, and move through space. Lately, she and her collaborators Joanne Barrett and Shaneeka Harrell have been conducting experiments in memory. They are deep in the process of building In This Place, a new physical…
“Dancer” is a loaded word. It brings to mind images of borderline anorexic women with great posture and mutilated toes, or hyper-sexual booty-licious music video girls, or strippers. But Pina, German director Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated tribute to daring choreographer Pina Bausch, undermines all the stereotypes. And it opens at the…
Main Street Players’ Living Out is a triumph
Lisa Loomer’s Living Out, which opened last night at Main Street Players, is the kind of play that makes you laugh out loud, and devastates you at the same time. The production is something of a triumph for the small Miami Lakes-based theatre group.Putting on a play with the complexity,…
New Theatre’s Winter: Abandonment with humor
Women need very little to survive: food, water, and high-speed Internet access so they can peruse the gazillion images of Ryan Gosling that float around like meteoroids of pure hot in cyberspace. The ladies have been obsessed with Gosling ever since the release of The Notebook. Hell, those “Photoshopped” abs…
Winter, which saw its world premiere last night at New Theatre, is an affecting and hilarious look at the scars of abandonment told through fraternal twins so wrapped up in their own lives, neglect becomes second nature.It’s a story about how we begin to remember the ones we love, but…
Decadancetheatre, an all-female crew based in Brooklyn, is all about staying true to hip-hop culture. They use old-school styles — breaking, popping, locking, and house — to tell stories on stage. In their 2004 performance, Decadance vs. the Firebird, the company remade Stravinsky’s classic ballet. For their Miami debut at…
The Step Up movies all have essentially the same plot: Boy meets girl. They dance. They fall in love. They live, and dance, happily ever after. But there’s something a little different about Step Up 4: It all takes place in Miami.From the looks of the trailer, released this week,…
Next to Normal at Actors’ Playhouse through February 12
Daniel Reskin, the Miami-born server-by-day, comic-by-night (we’re sure he’s a trained ninja somewhere in between there) just announced he’s releasing his own podcast. Because New Times boasts the speediest reporting known to mankind, we got in contact with Reskin as soon as we saw his tweet about the podcast project …..
Working separately, from New York and Paris, Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey are trying to undo themselves. For Tool Is Loot, their upcoming performance presented by Tigertail Productions at the Colony Theatre, they subjected their aesthetic assumptions to the opinions and desires of total strangers. Starting with separate “empty solos”…
Originally born in Zimbabwe, New York-based choreographer Nora Chipaumire is unafraid to confront the foundations of her own identity. Her upcoming performance, presented by Miami Light Project and Miami-Dade College’s MDC Live! performing arts series, promises three bold perspectives on the inward and outward landscapes she has traveled. She will…
Teo Castellanos’s NE Second Avenue returns
The Carbonell Awards, the Tony Awards of South Florida stage, announced their 2011 nominees last night (see the full list below). Palm Beach County gleaned a whopping 43 nominations, followed by Miami-Dade’s 28 and Broward’s 27. But one of our own theatre troupes, the Actors’ Playhouse, proved a heavy hitter,…
A spoonful of Nintendo helps the Beethoven go down. That’s the philosophy that the Boston String Quartet has applied to getting high school students excited about classical music with its Ethno-Urban Orchestra.Through this initiative, the BSQ will invite about 100 high school students from around Miami to collaborate with them…
Oh, to lead the life of Tamalyn Dallal. In 1990, she founded Mid-Eastern Dance Exchange, the first belly dance studio in Miami Beach. Over the next 15 years, she trained many of the most successful dancers on the global belly dance scene (yes, there is one), including Amar Gamal, Bozenka,…
If there is one area that seems more vagina-friendly than ever these days, it’s comedy; Cameron Diaz agreed when we interviewed her. Just take a look at the biggest ladies of the moment: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristin Wiig — strong, talented, respected women whose success has them rolling in…
One year after You Got Served brought dance floor battles to the silver screen in 2004, Nora Chipaumire was awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award for bringing a much deeper conflict to life through her dance. Her work, titled Chimurenga, will be presented at the Light Box at…
The Motherf**ker With the Hat at GableStage through February 5
Who says flamenco needs to be stuck in its 18th-century Andalusian roots?
