Tere O'Connor Dance troupe builds on a theme

If dance is the most evanescent of the arts, evaporating into memory the instant it's completed, then architecture is arguably the most concrete, creating the solid structures of our lives that can last for centuries. Other than the fact that dance is usually done in buildings, most people wouldn't see much else that they have in common.

DANCE REVIEW

Miami City Ballet opens with triple slam

Miami City Ballet kicked off its season Friday night at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts with a triple slam of major pieces in three major genres of ballet. There was classical (Balanchine's version of Act II of Swan Lake), neo-classical (his mid-20th century masterpiece The Four Temperaments) and contemporary (Twyla Tharp's exhilarating In The Upper Room), as if to say ''we can do it all.'' You could call it bravado, except that they can.
DANCE

Avant-garde meets Carnival at 801 Projects

When Octavio Campos, artistic director of the arts organization Camposition, set up his office in Edificio Jose Marti on the edge of Little Havana, the building's manager gave him free reign of the common area on the second floor.
A festival of ballet on vivid display

The XIII International Ballet Festival of Miami's centerpiece performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Saturday night displayed everything that makes the festival wonderful and frustrating. Dancers from across the globe showed off stunning technical prowess and cringe-inducing mediocrity. There were vivid performances of fine modern pieces from key choreographers and uninspired renditions of overdone classics.
BALLET

Festival offers adventurous, ambitious bill

Thirteen is not usually a lucky number. But the 13th edition of the International Ballet Festival of Miami, which starts this week and runs through Sept. 14, looks like it will be a good one, with performances in two major new venues, an enticing range of contemporary and classical pieces by an international cast of dance companies, a show by teen winners of top international ballet competitions, a film series and more.
World's rising ballet stars in Miami

RISING STARS AT BALLET CAMP: The Miami City Ballet Summer Intensive is a program that takes about 200 of the best dancers from around the world for a mixture of discipline, hard work and comradery. The eager dancers are training five days a week this summer at the Miami Beach facility.
Smaller festival hopes to make a big impression

Despite having been without an executive director for a year and a half, Florida Dance Festival is preparing to leap onto local stages and dance studios again this year, with two new commissioned pieces and performances by students and faculty.
BALLET

Dancers step out with their own ideas

Give a bunch of ballet dancers a vacation, and what do they do? Keep dancing. For the 30-some dancers from Miami City Ballet performing this weekend in Our Show, the annual dancer-produced and curated fundraiser-slash-homegrown event, it's an opportunity to strut some of the stuff they don't get to show off during the ballet's regular season.