India Jazz Suites: The Fastest Feet in Rhythm pretty much spells out what will be going down Saturday at the South-Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center. The event is a high-speed hybrid of ancient Indian moves and contemporary tap, created by Kathak dance master Pandit Chitresh Das and celebrated tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith.
Violist Roberto Díaz, president of Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, performs frequently in South Florida chamber concerts and has served as a coach for the young musicians of the New World Symphony. He appeared at New World Center in Miami Beach with his wife, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, in a sometimes-too-energetic performance of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the New World, shrunken for the occasion to 18th-century proportions.
Pianist Zoe Zeniodi, the protagonist of a recent University of Miami program of music by Thomas Sleeper, returned to the stage of Gusman Concert Hall over the weekend to continue her in-depth exploration of the Frost School of Music professor’s keyboard works.
It is the most popular opera in the repertoire. La Traviata has been programmed by Florida Grand Opera no fewer than 11 seasons, a record tied only by La Bohème and Madama Butterfly. Around the world, it is the opera staged more than any other, with 629 performance runs in the past five years, according to the Operabase website.
Though well-acted, Evan Smith’s comedy doesn’t pay off for Zoetic Stage.
Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard’s work is cunning, ultra-stylized and visually stunning, imbued with a beautiful strangeness and ominous psycho-sexuality. She has garnered a following in Miami, thanks to Tigertail Productions, which presents her Compagnie Marie Chouinard for the third time this weekend at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach.
Seraphic Fire is celebrating 500 years of Spain in Florida with a unique overview of music from “The Golden Age of Spain.” Artistic Director Patrick Quigley has done considerable research into Spanish vocal music of the 14th through 16th centuries, unearthing scores that have rarely been performed by contemporary choral ensembles.
The touring production at the Broward Center fails to invigorate a not-so-hot musical.
Surviving, let alone thriving, in the performing arts is a daunting proposition, but Miami’s Seraphic Fire seems to have been on a fast track over the past year and a half.
The late tap master Gregory Hines called Savion Glover “the greatest tap dancer who ever lived.” And Glover’s near flawless SoLe Sanctuary performance on Saturday at the Adrienne Arsht Center made this clear. An innovative musician, Glover uses his metal-clad shoes as instruments. Performing with him was Miami’s own tap sensation, Marshall Davis Jr.
Avi Hoffman climbs a mountain of a text in Outré Theatre’s production.
The New World Symphony’s depth of talent routinely comes through in the rich tone, range of color and virtuoso execution with which the young musicians perform the orchestral repertoire. But every year, a few members, chosen competitively, perform as soloists. The annual concerto concert took place at New World Center in Miami Beach Saturday evening .
Guest conductor Daniel Andai chose Aaron Copland’s original 13-piece chamber version of An Appalachian Spring for the Miami Symphony Orchestra’s concert at Florida International University’s Wertheim Auditorium. Shorn of the thick instrumental textures of the later arrangement for full orchestra, this familiar work proved the highlight of an excellent program Saturday night that also traversed late Richard Strauss and a Mozart masterwork.
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is raising the curtain on its 2013-2014 Theater Up Close programming, partnering again with Miami’s Zoetic Stage, the House Theatre of Chicago and the University of Miami for an eclectic season — including a pair of world premieres — in the center’s Carnival Studio Theatre.
By day, William Altfield is a Miami-Dade County judge.
Six strong singers power a collection of classics, though history is barely addressed.
Film critic Roger Ebert, who died of cancer Thursday at age 70, reviewed thousands of movies over the years for the Chicago Sun-Times and his television show. His often cutting reviews ("I've seen audits that were more thrilling," he said of one lifeless picture) in turn triggered thousands of arguments.
Three divas on a bus take a back seat to costumes at Miami’s Arsht Center.
Palm Beach Dramaworks gives its audiences an accessible Eugene Ionesco play.
GableStage, Zoetic Stage honored for plays during 37th annual ceremony.
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