Most musicians in Cuba have pursued their art all their lives, coming from musical families and studying from childhood. But one of the most popular singers on the island, Ivette Cepeda, began her musical career after teaching mathematics for more than a decade.
Symphonic Dances, the powerful ballet created by famed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky for Miami City Ballet, is the highlight of the troupe’s third program, and in its weekend performance at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, it was just as sweeping and musical as in its premiere last season, with eloquent new details emerging on second viewing.
The Perez Art Museum Miami has announced its first year’s schedule of exhibitions, all of which reflect South Florida’s international attitude.
In the fraught world of the silent film The Yellow Ticket, the heroine confronts anti-Semitism and moral hypocrisy, fights for survival and nearly dies before discovering her true identity and finding acceptance and happiness.
Alexei Ratmansky talks about inspiration for Miami City Ballet’s ‘Symphonic Dances’
When Lourdes Lopez arrived at Miami City Ballet last fall to become its new artistic director, she barely had time to sleep, much less think about what was next.
The most adventurous and substantial work added to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s repertory this season is its oldest – Garth Fagan’s 1978 piece From Before. Seen on Friday night, in the second of the troupe’s five shows at the Adrienne Arsht Center, From Before proved to be a fascinating whirl of a dance. With none of the obvious virtuosity or drama that marks much of the Ailey repertoire, it is a daring and welcome addition.
Something old, something new, something spiritual, something internal: Miami-born artistic director Robert Battle’s quest to push the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in new directions while holding tight to its roots was evident as America’s most famous modern dance troupe opened its Adrienne Arsht Center run Thursday night with four disparate works.
When Ayikodans’ artistic director Jeanguy Saintus goes dark, he doesn’t hold back. In Lamentation13, the new work Saintus created for the Haitian dance troupe’s third season at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, he shows us a relentlessly bleak vision of isolated, antagonistic humanity. It’s a view that says as much about Saintus as the rich spirituality, folkloric tradition and visceral physicality that also fill his work. And if we are to take him as a choreographer who is truly channeling and revealing his culture, it says something about Haiti as well.
In the new work Saintus created for the Haitian dance troupe's third season, he shows us a relentlessly bleak vision of isolated, antagonistic humanity.
A Miami jury ordered the Homestead-Miami Speedway to pay more than half a million dollars for canceling a Cuban music festival.
Global campaign called One Billion Rising, aims to get a billion people — the number of women the United Nations estimates will be raped or assaulted in their lifetime — to take action with flash mobs, protests and dances.
The austere dance solo, puppet-propelled opera, silent-film-informed melodrama and cartoonishly gothic take on cancer that opened Miami Light Project’s annual Here & Now festival make it seem even more eclectic than usual.
Choreographer Kyle Abraham’s Live! The Realest MC! is exceptional on many levels: emotionally daring, physically virtuosic, kinetically inspired. But he achieves something profound in this wrenching, dazzling dance theater piece, performed Friday by his troupe Abraham.In.Motion at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach.
New World Symphony celebrates the groundbreaking American artist with a 3-day festival
The first honorees of the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame were announced in Miami on Monday
What can a grownup possibly say about Justin Bieber? That he’s cute and his songs are musically negligible? That he’s only the latest in an endless series of teen heartthrobs? That we’re impressed he’s got more Twitter followers than Lady Gaga? What does it matter what anyone over 15 thinks of Justin Bieber?
Japanese choreographer Kota Yamazaki’s (glowing), presented by Miami Light Project Friday and Saturday, has lovely light but not much heat.
Japan and Africa are half a planet apart. Their cultures — Japan’s restrained and disciplined, Africa’s exuberant — seem just as distant.
For a guy who began his music career wearing a cocktail dress while trolling around on a scooter, Pink Martini founder Thomas M. Lauderdale sounds awfully earnest.
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