Dance

Vienna comes to Miami in 
Karen Peterson & Dancer’s “Scrutiny”

May 11 & 12 at Miami-Dade County Auditorium

International Mixed Ability Dance Collaboration with Austria’s LizArt Productions What makes a person or object physically beautiful? How do our ideas of what makes compelling contemporary dance change when people with disabilities are fully included on stage? Together, Miami’s Karen Peterson and Dancers (KPD) and Austria’s LizArt Productions (LAP) dive into these questions, and address the state of the world today, in … +

Museums

Tropical Wildlife: Portraits of Miamians, 1991-1996
Thu 6 Apr, 2017 - Sun 2 Jul, 2017

In 1967, the Miami Herald published the first edition of Tropic, a weekend magazine. Over the next 31 years, the magazine would win awards and the hearts of South Floridians. During the early 1990s, one weekly feature, called “Tropical Wildlife: Distinctive Markings of South Florida Species,” captured Tropic‘s own personality. The column showcased a random Miamian with a full page photograph and … +

Museums

Haroon Mirza
Fri 21 Jul, 2017 - Sun 20 May, 2018

Haroon Mirza (b. 1977, London) is a multimedia artist who works with audiovisual materials, electronic equipment, amplifiers, and found objects to create immersive environments and kinetic sculptures. His work amplifies phenomena that are often imperceptible –such as electricity–and seeks to create or distort the relationship between optics and acoustics, giving unexpected visual and sensorial analogs to what we hear. Mirza uses a particular … +

Museums

SUPERFLEX: Kwassa Kwassa
Through Sun 23 Apr, 2017

This exhibition presents Kwassa Kwassa (2015), a film created by the Danish artist collective, SUPERFLEX. Focusing on small, handmade fishing boats—the kwassa kwassa of the title, which translates to “unstable boat,” their construction, and the voyages they enable, the film is a visual meditation on migration, economy, citizenship, and history. It takes as its subject the Comoro Islands, an archipelago in the … +

Editorial

MLO’s “Butterfly” offers ardent singing alongside wooden theatrics

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of opera’s timeless perennials and for good reason. This tale of love, betrayal and clash of cultures wedded to Puccini’s passionate score never fails to  provide its audience with a moving experience. The enthusiastic response to Miami Lyric Opera’s production Saturday night at the South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center attested to this masterpiece’s continuing immediacy but … +

Dance

FUNDarte presents Climakaze Miami 2017
Fri 5 May, 2017

Climakaze Miami 2017 is highlighting profound female voices from Haiti and Australia in a unique event, Miami-grown songstress Inez Barlatier and Melbourne’s riveting cabaret priestess Moira Finucane get together to address climate issues through the arts and dialogue. The Rapture by Moira Finucane (Australia) Fri May 5, 2017, 8:30 PM Inez Barlatier in Concert (Miami-Haiti) Sat May 6, 2017, 8:30 PM Eco-Theater … +

News

ICA Speaks: Artist Hernan Bas
Thu 11 May, 2017

Hernan Bas (b. 1978, Miami, Florida) creates works born of literary intrigue and tinged with nihilistic romanticism and old world imagery. Influenced by the Aesthetic and Decadent writers of the 19th century, in particular Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysman, Bas’s works weave together stories of adolescent adventures and the paranormal with classical poetry, religious stories, mythology and literature. His work is part … +

Dance

Ballet flamenco La Casa de la Muñeca at Colony Theatre
Sat 1 Apr, 2017

Inspired in Ibsen’s A Doll’s house, La Casa de la Muñeca by Ballet Flamenco La Rosa is an original Flamenco ballet by Ilisa Rosal. This production features guest artists from Spain such as La Sentío, Oscar de los Reyes and Eloy Aguilar, singer Alicia Morales and guitarist Israel Heredia. With its exquisite vocals and guitar melodies, this flamenco is at once sensual … +

Dance

Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida: A Celebration of Dance
By Fran Robbins

South Florida continues to mature as an area brimming with the fine arts. At any time, locals and visitors alike have a rich menu of choices available to them, reflecting the unique mix of different backgrounds and talents that calls this area home. The Miami International Film Festival, Miami Book Fair International and Art Basel Miami Beach are renowned and anticipated on … +