On Saturday, Jan. 21, The Blockley, near University City, hosted three bands of rather different styles: Impressionist, West Philadelphia Orchestra and The Sun Ra Arkestra. Although their configurations are fairly similar in regards to large bands and horn sections, their varied musical styles are dynamic, danceable and deep in outer space, respectively. First onto the stage [...]
Miami City Ballet (a Knight Arts grantee) had a banner year. After yet another remarkable and well-received season, MCB, as it is known, traveled for the first time ever to Paris and made an outstanding foreign debut. Then, it made its premiere appearance under a national spotlight when it were featured in PBS’s “Great [...]
To bring live dance performances to broader audiences by making available a portable dance floor that can be used by companies throughout the region at festivals and other events
To celebrate the African arts by bringing the renowned festival Dance Africa to Philadelphia
To showcase local artists by presenting commissioned dance and gospel performances through free weekly concerts at the museum’s Seventh Street Plaza
To broaden people’s understanding of art and dance by turning the audience into a participant in an aural and visual performance journey called The Garden
By BalletX Dance Colby Damon BalletX is a new Philadelphia dance company with an ambitious goal—to redefine ballet and bring it into the new century. The company, a Knight Arts grantee, debuted “Beside Myself” by Tobin Del Cuore in November 2010. Today dancer Colby Damon reflects on the performance… Beside Myself was quite a journey [...]
The Art of Dance is a performance that is all about community building through collaboration. Professional choreographers and artists from South Florida come together to work with the next generation of dancers at Miami Dade College and expose them to a wide array of works, dance styles and teaching methods. Witness the fruits of this [...]
“Inkūb8 is on the edge of the district,” Heather Maloney says of her studio lab in Wynwood. “And, I want to make it a center.” Maloney has guts and a vision for the future of Miami’s emerging performance art scene. In my interview with Maloney, she elaborates on this vision and gives me a preview [...]
Whether hauntingly strange, surreal, or sublime, true art, when it happens to us, reinvigorates and challenges our preconceived notions of the contemporary world. It confronts us and offers us more than just cheap entertainment, unlike the flippant antics carried out by today’s reality television ‘stars’. True artistry is…
