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  Jay Jackson, AKA Drag Race Star Laganja Estranja, Gets Personal

  September 20 at 8:30 a.m.

  Los Angeles-based dancer Jay Jackson says that when she was a child, her parents placed her in soccer. It was quickly clear sports weren’t the right fit for the future RuPaul's Drag Race Season 6 contestant. She ultimately found her niche in a dance class where the girls accepted her femininity and where she discovered herself as she watched her movements in the mirror.

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  Mosaic Dance Project Teaches Kids With Autism How to Dance

  June 27 at 8 a.m.

  When Steven Isicoff, manager of the Mosaic Dance Project, saw kids with autism dancing during the nonprofit dance company's Meaningful Movement class last week, he “was almost crying,” he says. Isicoff is also an electronic music producer with a brother on the autism spectrum, and he's passionate about this new endeavor for the dance company.

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  Knight Foundation Is Giving $500,000 to New Works of Performance Art in Miami

  June 19 at 9 a.m.

  As Art Basel has grown into the biggest art fair in the world, Miami has become known as an international hub of the visual arts, on par with cultural nerve centers around the globe. In recent years, the Magic City has also begun to earn its due recognition for being home to a rich and burgeoning performing arts scene.

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  Ballet Flamenco La Rosa’s Verano y Humo Ignites Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke

  June 6 at 9:28 a.m.

  Tennessee Williams’ play Summer and Smoke had its premiere on Broadway in 1948, and this weekend it will be reprised flamenco style, by Ballet Flamenco La Rosa – likely the first time a work by Williams has been translated into the language of flamenco. Summer and Smoke is set in...

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  Yara Travieso Premieres El Ciclón for YoungArts, Draining Various Swamps

  May 10 at 8 a.m.

  On a chilly day last fall, Miami-born artist Yara Travieso sat in a beach chair in her Brooklyn backyard while she talked about a performance she was planning for Miami’s YoungArts Plaza. “It’s very weird,” she said of her current location, “because it’s cold.” Though she no longer lives in Miami, Travieso said she feels like she still has an umbilical cord attached to the city. Hurricane Irma had just blown through, leaving downed trees and twisted street signs. She felt it from afar.

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  Dimensions Dance Tackles Gender, Power, and Ballet

  April 20 at 9:30 a.m.

  Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami has been on a meteoric trajectory. In its first 18 months, the troupe was a 2017 Knight Challenge Grant recipient, and in June, it will debut at New York’s Joyce Theater, followed by its first appearance at the storied Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. During that same...