Paul Tei’s Mad Cat Theatre Does Beckett

This St. Paddy’s Day weekend, while much of Miami is celebrating Irish culture with green beer, shamrock decor, and Celtic rock, Mad Cat Theatre Company will offer a different Irish perspective: existential despair, traumatic recollections, and creaking ghost stories from the nation’s chief export of the avant-garde, Samuel Beckett. For…

Pioneer Winter and Jared Sharon Premiere a Divided Host

While Miami native Pioneer Winter has been active in the local dance community as a choreographer, he has also been wrapping up his Masters of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University. HOST, Winter’s current project, is also his thesis performance. The piece explores the potential of what Winter calls a “practice-based” approach…

Dancer Farruquito Improvises Flamenco Back to the Future

Juan Manuel Fernández Montoya, known as “Farruquito,” was born into one of the grand families of flamenco. His father was the late cantaor Juan Fernández Flores, “El Moreno.” His mother, the dancer Rosario Montoya, was referred to as “La Farruca.” And his grandfather, the founder of a flamenco school of…

Japanese Choreographer Kota Yamazaki Concludes His Tour of OQ in Miami

A palace is typically extravagant, filled with too many pillows and too many luxury items. It’s the ultimate signifier of wealth and consumption. But for Japanese choreographer Kota Yamazaki, it’s a frenetic, meditative space where dark and light coexist. Inspired by utakai (poetry readings by Japanese aristocrats) and renga (collaboratively…

Alvin Ailey Dance Theater’s Awakening Will Rouse the Arsht Center

After a long day’s work, most people like to plop down in front of the TV to unwind — but not Jamar Roberts. The 33-year-old dancer, choreographer, illustrator, and fashion designer considers the act of watching television an exploration of what’s happening behind the lens. “I usually watch on mute…

El Público Takes Production of Antigone From Havana to Miami

Miami’s Fundarte planned to bring a searing production of Sophocles’ Antigone — or more precisely Antigonon, un Contingente Epico (perhaps best translated as a really big, maybe the biggest Antigone, ever) — to town last year. Everything was in place. Except visas. The production hails from Havana, Cuba, and though the visas…

Miami City Ballet Gala: Tempest Meets A Mid Summer’s Night Dream

Followers of Downton Abbey hear “gala” and have visions of long coats, silk top hats and mustaches waxed to a rapier point, haute couture dresses squared off like combative tulips, and a night of a lifetime. However, for an arts organization like Miami City Ballet, a gala is serious business. The…

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…