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…
Many scholars have studied the dance forms transplanted from Africa to the Americas, but there was no need to read a heavy book to see what the dances of the African diaspora have in common: Saturday night’s shared bill at the Byron Carlyle — featuring Ife Ile, Afro Contempo, and Afua Hall Dances — was [...]
East Coast. West Coast. Dirty South…Montreal? That French Canadian city may be known for supporting the arts, but it’s not exactly the first joint that comes to mind for urban music and dance. But then Quebec’s own Blueprint Cru made it to the finals on America’s Best Dance Crew this season. And last Thursday at [...]
For the past week I have been in Durham, North Carolina at the American Dance Festival for an institute for dance critics hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts. In fact, there are two Miami-based critics here, me and Miami Artzine columnist and choreographer Letty Bassart.
Late May and into June, after the so-called season has ended and the dancers of Miami City Ballet have put away their toe shoes, a more independent, D-I-Y kind of dance lives on. Choreographers without boards of directors or paid subscribers somehow put together scrappy productions that are often my favorites of the year. This [...]