Brazz Dance Premiere: Cordel
Argentine Tango and American Hip-Hop may look completely different on the surface, but both were born from the friction of social inequality. Both dance styles served, originally, as a form of underground cultural resistance. Coming up in November, Miami’s Brazz Dance Theater will unveil Cordel, a full-length work that takes Tango and Hip-Hop as a [...]
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Child of Technology
Out now in the September/October issue of Art Papers. Jillian Mayer, a young artist born and raised in Miami, tells the story of a recent trip to Buenos Aires. She was displaying her collection of Simpsons finger puppets—crudely-knit interpretations of the characters sold around the world—which her Argentinian friend recognized immediately: “Oh, I love Los [...]
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Magnus Sigurdarson: Absenteeism
Miami in the summer can be distressingly slow. Not much business is happening, and for anyone living on the edge of financial security, it’s a time to pare down and get creative with resources. In conversation with many local artists I have observed a trend that is definitely appearing elsewhere: the solution to a creative [...]
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Fat Boy Rocks the Lightbox
Fat Boy, a theatrical dance production by Teo Castellanos and D-Projects, premiered last weekend at Miami Light Project’s stunning new Lightbox theater at the Goldman Warehouse in Wynwood. Fat Boy describes a world out of balance — to bass-heavy beats by DJ Le Spam. The structure of the piece was a complex hybrid of performance [...]
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On “Red Eyes”
By Neil de la Flor, for Knight Arts Blog. Annie Hollingsworth, director of Mayami Folklorico and one of The New Times’ 100 Creatives, will present a work-in-progress titled Red Eyes (Je Wouj) at the Little Haiti Cultural Center this Friday, July 29. Choreographed in collaboration with Ann Mazzocca, Red Eyes explores the rich, spirit-driven traditions [...]
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Ayikodans: Larger Than Life
Ayikodans, one of Haiti’s premiere dance companies, brought so much power and passion to the stage that the Arsht Center’s small Carnival Studio Theater could barely contain them. For three separate shows the audience was packed to capacity, the air was saturated with drumming and singing, and stunning choreography exploded on stage in deeply felt [...]
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Doug Varone and Dancers
One of the first shows to grace the new South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center will be coming soon: a night of dance performance by the New York based Doug Varone and Dancers. This event has been in the works since the company performed at Jacob’s Pillow two years ago — and should be a pretty [...]
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To Hell and Back
Last night’s Asesinos por una Noche was an intensely dark, multimedia performance presented by local artists Alexey Taran, Carla Forte, and the Bistoury Physical Theater. It’s a good guess that each person in the audience last night felt about the show they way they feel about conflict in their lives: some people are repelled by [...]
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Beautiful Monsters
Local choreographer Alexey Taran, filmmaker Carla Forte, and the Bistoury Physical Theater Company want us to confront our demons. Their new and extravagantly multimedia project Asesinos por una Noche (Assassins for One Night), performed on Friday, revolves around a simple principle: “as above, so below.” More specifically, brutal government regimes are simply scaled-up versions of [...]
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Last Meadow at Colony Theater
Imagine multiple movies being projected on a single screen, with clashing soundtracks and images of people and spaces emerging and then disappearing into formlessness. This is what it was like to watch Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People perform Last Meadow at the Colony Theater last weekend, part of Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs’ Cultura del Lobo [...]
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