A powerful dance theater work, a sharp and adventurous new play, a playfully surreal bit of performance art, a moderately entertaining monologue and a mediocre pop play. These were the pieces on show as the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Miami Made festival cut loose from Miami Light Project and its Here & Now Festival.
Only once, ever. That was the most electrifying — and poignant — of the many singular qualities of Miami City Ballet’s world premiere of choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s haunting and intoxicating Symphonic Dances.
There is a whole lot going on in Miami City Ballet’s world premiere performance of Alexei Ratmansky’s Symphonic Dances Thursday at the Adrienne Arsht Center.
Here in Miami, dance audiences are thrilled that native son Robert Battle now leads the fabled Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which opened its annual run at the Adrienne Arsht Center to a packed, enthusiastic house. But elsewhere the attention is on how Battle will affect the character of America’s most popular modern dance institution, and potentially the image of modern dance itself.
Miami native Robert Battle returns as artistic director of the famed Alvin Ailey dance troupe
The misty romance of Giselle, which Miami City Ballet brought back on Friday night at the Adrienne Arsht Center, is stylistic light years — and more than 170 calendar years — from the slashing modernisms of Viscera, the Liam Scarlett ballet MCB premiered in January.
Choreographer Heather Maloney tackles an unwieldy but fascinating mystery with in this place: the way we carry memories in our bodies and the way memories stay with us, informing who we are. So it’s no surprise that her dance theater piece, which opened the first of two nights at the On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami-Dade County Auditorium Thursday, is dreamily amorphous, full of potent imagery and a sense of unanswerable wonder – and also poignantly, oddly human.
Late choreographer’s moving work inspires filmmaker — and earns him an Oscar nomination for 3D documentary.
Dancer, choreographer, and cultural pioneer Heather Maloney grew up on a farm in Virginia. And so the habits of working hard to make things grow, of waiting patiently for things to mature, come naturally to her.
Some board members, major donors and dancers are questioning the earlier-than-expected retirement of Edward Villella, artistic director of the Miami City Ballet.
The Latin rocker ventures into new territory with his first acoustic recording, an MTV project at the New World Symphony’s concert hall
The four offerings at this year’s Here & Now Festival, Miami Light Project’s annual showcase of adventurous local performer/creators, are vivid and theatrical, if not always well-thought-out or deeply original. But helping artists develop under the spotlight of live performance is what this festival is all about.
Though Miami’s Here & Now Festival has been going for a dozen years, there’s still a sense of excitement each time it rolls around. Will another performance art star emerge? Will a charismatic dancer we’ve admired turn out to be a better choreographer than the people she’s danced with?
The mind-bending duo is about to become a regular Miami presence.
The creator-hosts of public radio’s envelope-pushing ‘Radiolab’ bring their live show to South Florida
Miami performances by an African solo artist and an avant garde duo showed different sides of the contemporary dance spectrum.
AXIS, a leader in the realm of disabled dance, comes to Miami this week for workshops, a panel presentation and a performance. The San Francisco troupe, which helped upend conventional notions about who can dance, what is virtuosity and what makes a body beautiful, is being presented by Tigertail Productions’ annual DanceAble program, part of the Florida Dance Association’s Winterfest.
An unforgettable performance is a bittersweet farewell to Merce Cunningham, the revolutionary master of modern dance.
Miami City Ballet showed new inspiration and life in a new ballet from a young British choreographer.
The morning after the New Year’s Eve party that Miami Heat star LeBron James threw for his birthday and engagement felt worse than a hangover for Boca Raton baker Alethea Hickman.
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