Brittany Williams: Swamp Body – Recollections of the Salt Water Railroad
Activism is in Brittany Williams’ blood. So is street dance. So is the legacy of her Bahamian ancestors and the struggle of Black people in Florida. She brings them to moving life in Swamp Body –...
View ArticleDorothy Hindman: Questions We Don’t Dare Ask Ourselves
Dorothy Hindman’s Here & Now piece challenges the audience, her musicians, and herself. An acclaimed new music composer and professor at University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, she had to...
View ArticleEnrique Villacreses: GoldenSociety
Dance and filmmaker/human rocket Enrique Villacreses takes a sci fi flight in GoldenSociety, following his wild imagination and his exhilarating, double-take inducing, hiphop-gaga-modern movement style...
View ArticleJosé Manuel Domínguez: Watch Out, Joe!
Theater artist José Manuel Dominguez knows about being different – as an immigrant, and as someone who can’t see. But Watch Out, Joe! explores other people’s anxiety at dealing with those who are...
View ArticleKayla Castellon & Patricia Rose Suarez: Closed Rehearsal
Classmates, dance mates, roommates and best friends Kayla Castellon and Patricia Rose Suarez celebrate friendship, youth, play and transformation in the actually quite open Closed Rehearsal.
View ArticleShamar Wayne Watt: Dawning of the Suns
Spiritual revival and the raw power of the dancing community, whether in a rave, a street dance cypher, or church, ignite Shamar Watt’s Dawning of the Suns. A fiercely mesmerizing performer, Watt has...
View ArticleSol Ruiz: Positive Vibration Nation
Who wouldn’t like to be a superhero, especially these days? Miami-bred, Cuban-rooted singer/songwriter/musician Sol Ruiz’s superpower is music. Which she unleashes in Positive Vibration Nation, a...
View ArticleRoxana Barba: Amaru in Heaven
As we retreat into the digital while the natural world burns and floods, Roxana Barba offers a multi-media invocation of the ancestral Andean cosmovision of her native Peru. In Amaru in Heaven (the...
View ArticlePioneer Winter – Embracing Everyone, Expanding Everything
Dance theater maker and cultural transformer Pioneer Winter seems to live by the words ‘why not?’ Why not make pieces with people with all different kinds of bodies, experiences, identities, beauty,...
View ArticleMiami Light Project Marks a Year Filled With Commissions for New Artist Projects
Enabling artists to make new work has always been at the heart of Miami Light Project’s mission. But in recent months, a cascade of artists and projects fostered by Miami Light Project have received...
View ArticleGaro Vinyl Session
Part of the allure of Cuban music for outsiders is the thrill of discovering a secret musical world – an intoxicating music created in an island with an endlessly vital, constantly morphing musical...
View ArticleBuilding a Miami Beach Fantasy – Liony Garcia’s Corporeal Decorum
In the years that choreographer Liony Garcia has worked on Corporeal Decorum, this layered, shape-shifting dance and visual evocation of South Beach’s Art Deco landscape has morphed multiple times.
View ArticleJenna Balfe: Organesis
Artist/activist/nature lover Jenna Balfe has always found inspiration and rejuvenation in the abundant landscape of her native Miami.
View ArticleCecilia Benitez & Stephanie Perez: Manteca
Cecilia Benitez and Stephanie Perez are cultural twins. Both 24, Miami-born daughters of Cuban exiles raised in ‘Wescheser,’ the heart of suburban exilio. Both dance graduates of New World School of...
View ArticleSymone Titania Major: Home
Until now, Symone Titania Major has focused on showcasing the richness of Miami-Dade’s Black community.
View ArticleAlejandro Rodriguez: In the Brackish Water
Alejandro Rodriguez planned to be an actor. But when the Miami-born son of Cuban exiles saw Teo Castellanos’ NE Second Avenue, the game-changing solo theater piece Castellanos originated for Here &...
View ArticleRandolph Ward: Unconventional
Retired ballet dancer Randolph Ward celebrates outsider power in his Here & Now piece Unconventional; the transgender, vogue, and drag artists who not only re-define their sexuality and gender, but...
View ArticleScreenDance Miami Redux – That’s So Miami
The annual Screendance Miami festival shows films from around the world. But this year, we’re reprising films by Miami artists at the North Beach Bandshell, because the most compelling entries are from...
View ArticleTeo Castellanos: F.Punk Junkies
I grew up with 70’s soul, funk, salsa, then came hiphop and punk, then post-punk and new wave. That’s always been me. Then I got interested in Afro-Futurism and Afro-punk. I like the reclaiming of punk...
View ArticleF.Punk Junkies: “Our Survival”
“The earliest archives or libraries were the memories of women. Patiently transmitted from mouth to ear, body to body, hand to hand. …The speech is seen, heard, smelled, tasted and touched.” (Trinh T....
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