Physically ripped and emotionally expansive, the Haitian dance troupe Ayikodans returned to Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday evening. The swell of emotion that surrounded the troupe’s performance there a year ago, as community leaders gathered to support a company on the verge of collapse after the Haitian earthquake, has leveled off somewhat. And that made it easier to look at the troupe and its work.

A year after a triumphant Miami performance, Jeanguy Saintus and his Ayikodans dance troupe still struggle against formidable odds.

Before Art Basel, before the New World Symphony, there was Tigertail Productions, Miami’s tropically flavored, impishly styled but dedicatedly serious avant-garde arts presenter, which hosts its annual fundraiser Saturday night.

Troupe is another way for New World’s Peter London to nurture dancers

A catchy Brazilian pop song by heartthrob Michel Telo is a worldwide hit that has generated nearly half a billion YouTube hits. Now ‘Ai Se Eu Te Pego’ is beginning to wash over this country.

Not many bands even make it to one decade. But Tabou Combo, the Rolling Stones of Haitian <span class="italic">konpa</span>, have been rocking a deep Caribbean groove for 44 years. They’ve adapted disco, funk and hip-hop to their now-classic <span class="italic">konpa</span> sound, sung out on AIDS, the travails of immigration, the earthquake — and the perpetual appeal of dance and the opposite sex.

As their hometown has added artistic heft and urban sophistication to its sun-and-fun profile, two Miamians see a major piece missing on the path to metropolitan maturity: a sense of community engagement grounded in a belief that everyone can play a part in building the city.

‘Cafe Brasil’ celebrates 10 years of samba, bossa nova and much more

She might not have known it,

Miami City Ballet named a new leader on Tuesday: Lourdes Lopez, a Cuban-born, Miami-raised former principal dancer at New York City Ballet who is currently director of the Morphoses Dance Company in New York, will succeed founding artistic director Edward Villella.

Paco de Lucía’s will be at the the Fillmore Miami Beach on Thursday, as part of his first U.S. tour in five years.

Call it theater for the attention-span challenged generation, with guerilla style and cultural chic.

As a choreographer and dancer, Kyle Abraham has made communicating without words his life’s work. But the ability to speak, whether literally and physically, or with the integrity of your own identity – and the painful consequences of losing that voice - are at the heart of <span class="italic">The Radio Show</span>, the acclaimed dance work that Abraham and his troupe Abraham.in.Motion bring to the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center this Saturday.

Miami City Ballet board members on Tuesday will choose between a longtime dancer and an outsider to replace its artistic director.

The tale of a mischievous girl who triumphs over a hapless inventor to captivate her still more hapless boyfriend, <span class="italic">Coppelia</span> is one of classical ballet’s few comedies. It’s an appealing but lightweight work, and in choosing it for the closing program of the season, perhaps Miami City Ballet officials were hoping for an easy crowd pleaser. On Saturday night at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the troupe gave an adept and charming, if not terribly inspired, performance. Compared to the fire with which they attacked this season’s premieres by Liam Scarlett and Alexei Ratmansky, or the depth and precision with which they dance the Balanchine repertoire, <span class="italic">Coppelia </span>felt rather flat — a network sitcom rather than an HBO drama.

The name <span class="italic">Come Fly Away</span>, the Twyla Tharp-Frank Sinatra musical swooping through the Adrienne Arsht Center through Sunday, is apt, and not because it’s the catchy title of one of the many memorable Sinatra songs on its soundtrack.

A Chilean actress turned alternative musician brings her mystical act to Miami Thursday

Elena “Mimi” Casals, a Cuban poet and songwriter who made her Miami home a center for exile Cuban writers and musicians, died Saturday at her home in Nashville, with her family at her side. She was 85.

Twyla Tharp’s ‘Come Fly With Me’ lands in Miami this week

With a rare two days off in a row in this funky NBA season, Miami Heat broadcasters <span class="bold">Tony Fiorentino </span>and <span class="bold">Eric Reid</span> picked the right time to organize their sixth annual Call of the Game fundraising gala last night.