Acclaimed Dance Artist Shamel Pitts Brings the Heat in Touch of RED
Dance artist Shamel Pitts usually takes about nine months to make a piece. But Touch of RED, Pitts’ duet with Tushrik Fredericks, was birthed in a two-year-long, pandemic-bred incubation that fostered...
View ArticleA World of Movement
The gorgeous visual and movement carnival of the annual ScreenDance Miami festival is much more than an annual delight for Miami. The festival gives us a glimpse into creative minds, new ideas, and...
View ArticleThe Next Stage
Moving on from a beloved longtime home is hard. So many memories, experiences, and emotions contained and created within those walls.
View ArticleWomen immigrants take flight in Carla Forte’s Bird Woman
For several years, dance and film artist Carla Forte has interviewed scores of women immigrants, women who’ve crossed borders, who brought their children, or whose mothers brought them to a new...
View ArticleMigguel Anggelo: LatinXoxo
Venezuelan artist Migguel Anggelo’s LatinXoxo is a fierce and fabulous cabaret piece that looks at cross-cultural Queer identity and his fraught relationship with his macho father; the only show at...
View ArticleSanba Zao: Affirming Haiti’s Culture
On a recent weekday morning, about 30 Haitian women, just finished with one of their regular dance classes at the community center in Oak Grove Park, listen patiently as Miami Light Project director...
View ArticleGentry George: Afro Blue
As a boy in Miami, Gentry George was a misbehaving and reluctant dance student, until his first teacher, Linda Agyapong, told him his talent meant that dance could be his ticket to the world.
View ArticleCarlos Fabian: Towards Now
Venezuelan theater artist Carlos Fabian came to Miami in 2019 to work with mentor Juan Souki on Miami New Drama’s production of Souki’s Viva La Parranda, which put residents of a rural Venezuelan...
View ArticleLetty Bassart: Here, Now
Letty Bassart started as a prototypical Miami dance talent – Cuban parents, ballet at age 3, New World School of the Arts straight to being teen star of powerhouse Spanish classical dance artist Rosita...
View ArticleDarius Daughtry: Reverie in Black
Teaching and storytelling have always been inseparable for Darius Daughtry.
View ArticleArsimmer McCoy: I’m So Depressed
Poet, collaborator, culture and community maker Arsimmer McCoy doesn’t know how to answer “what do you do?” But she doesn’t care.
View ArticleRosie Herrera: Faith, Magic and Make Believe
The title of Rosie Herrera’s dance theater piece "Make Believe" captures a child’s faith in imagination as magic. Let’s make believe the back yard is Peter Pan’s Neverland. That our Barbies can have...
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