Dance review

Peck’s piece for MCB duo a vivid part of New World’s ‘New Work’ program

The pas de deux Justin Peck created for Miami City Ballet was just one element of the New World Symphony’s “New Work” evening, but Chutes and Ladders, vibrantly performed by Jeanette Delgado and Kleber Rebello, made a vivid impression even amid the rich array at New World Center Saturday.

Latin music

Band’s ‘El Hielo (ICE)’ becomes anthem of immigration-reform movement

The debate over immigration is highly political, but for the Los Angeles-based group La Santa Cecelia, the issue is painfully personal. Lead singer Marisol Hernandez’s parents came to L.A. from Mexico without papers, and accordionist Jose “Pepe” Carlos is undocumented.

Performing arts

New World Symphony, Miami City Ballet collaborate on evening of new works

Two young artists are at the center of the adventurous “New Work” program the New World Symphony will present April 20. Choreographer Justin Peck, 25, created a pas de deux for Miami City Ballet for the occasion, and Zosha Di Castri, 28, composed a piece the orchestra will premiere.

Concert review

Taylor Swift’s ‘Red’ tour lights up AA Arena

The best revenge Taylor Swift could have against media sniping, celebrity ex-boyfriends and Kanye West-style haters would be that, after Justin Bieber and a generation of boy bands have fallen into oblivion, she makes the transition from teen prodigy to grown-up star.

Music review

Cubafest closer showcases Gema Corredera’s luminous talent

The annual Global Cubafest closed with a concert that beautifully expressed the event’s goal of celebrating and exploring Cuban music throughout the diaspora.

Latin music

Musicals, video-game score on Gustavo Santaolalla’s overflowing plate

Gustavo Santaolalla never stops forging into new territory. The Argentine producer of seminal Latin rock artists including Juanes, Café Tacuba and Molotov, composer of Oscar-winning scores for the movies Brokeback Mountain and Babel and co-founder of the tango-fusion group Bajofondo has a host of new projects in new genres including a dance musical, a video game, an animated film — and a winery.

Juanes is back, re-energized and determined to keep life in balance

The only instrument you notice walking into Juanes’ sun-dappled home on Key Biscayne is an upright piano, covered with lesson books for his daughter Paloma, 7, who on this weekday morning is sprawled on a sofa, along with siblings Luna, 9, and Dante, 3, in pajama-clad, spring-break bliss. The 16 Grammy Awards, racks of guitars and other trappings of the 40-year-old Colombian rock star’s career are in his recording studio upstairs.

Electronic dance music

Think Ultra Music Fest revelers are living large? Get a load of the SoBe VIP crowd

Think Ultra Music Fest revelers are living large? Get a load of the VIP sections in South Beach clubs.

Nigerian bio-musical ‘Fela’ gets crowd onto its feet at Arsht Center

Fela! boasts hit songs, thrilling dances and a riveting story. But this Broadway success, which runs through Sunday at the Adrienne Arsht Center, is also radically different from other musicals. The show, which opened Tuesday evening, brings us inside the seething, incandescent and precarious life of the Nigerian musical and political revolutionary Fela Anikulapo Kuti. That it succeeds in captivating American audiences with a world that would seem to be utterly foreign and disturbing to them is part of its achievement. Fela! does not lecture. But like the life of its subject, the show is celebratory and tragic in equal measure.

Musical theater

Musical ‘Fela!’ tells story of musician’s extraordinary life

Inspirational musical ‘Fela!’ chronicles the life of an extraordinary Nigerian

Dance review

Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia mixes traditional, contemporary at Arsht Center

Thursday’s performance by the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia, the Spanish troupe that is this year’s offering for the Flamenco Festival Miami, showed all the strengths and the weaknesses of this annual event — now in its sixth year at the Adrienne Arsht Center.

Dance

Andalusian troupe to open sixth Flamenco Festival Miami on Thursday

The Spanish flamenco world seems permanently obsessed with the tension between maintaining its genre’s powerful traditions and adapting to modern culture. One of the latest efforts to reconcile the two comes to Miami this week, when Spain’s Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia brings Metafora to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts for the sixth annual Flamenco Festival Miami.

Dance review

Revered teacher Peter London’s dance troupe showcases Miami dancers

Peter London has been a revered and beloved dance teacher at the New World School of the Arts since its launch in 1987, and his devotion and success as a mentor were apparent in the Peter London Global Dance Company concert Sunday evening at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. His troupe consists of 13 impressive current or recent New World students, and three alums now with major New York companies returned as guest stars.

Latin music

Famed Cuban singer to make her Miami debut Saturday

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.

Dance review

Miami City Ballet powerful in Symphonic Dances, but shows cracks in Balanchine repertory

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.

MUSEUMS

PAMM’s new exhibits will reflect Miami

The Perez Art Museum Miami has announced its first year’s schedule of exhibitions, all of which reflect South Florida’s international attitude.

Miami International Film Festival

Silent movie opens window on lost world of Eastern European Jews

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.

Dance

Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky talks about inspiration for Miami City Ballet’s ‘Symphonic Dances’

Alexei Ratmansky talks about inspiration for Miami City Ballet’s ‘Symphonic Dances’

Dance

Miami City Ballet’s Lourdes Lopez takes reins for new season

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 Alvin Ailey troupe’s second Miami show highlighted by sleek modernism and audience antics

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.