NOTE: I wrote this story as a freelance writer for the Miami Herald in 1995. I reproduce it exactly here as perspective on my just posted storyFull Circle – Choreographer Christopher Rudd returns to Miami with Dance NOW! EXPLORING BALLET, A FIELD OFTEN CONSIDERED OFF-LIMITS FOR BLACKS, THESE YOUNG MEN TAKE A LEAP OF COURAGE. Reporter:…
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Desire and difference – Miami New Drama’s Queen of Basel remakes a classic
The rich, oblivious, self-centered white girl. The dark-skinned Cuban guy seething with ambition and anger. The desperate Venezuelan woman who fled the violent chaos of her home country. We think we know these characters, just like they think they know each other. But by the end of Queen of Basel, the new production from Miami…
A big boost for Miami artists
ArtCenter South Florida announced a major new artist grant program Wednesday, the most striking product yet of the possibilities created by the $88 million sale of one of its Lincoln Road properties in 2014 and the first major initiative of new CEO and president Dennis Scholl. The Ellies, named for ArtCenter founder Ellie Schneiderman, will…
Modern Masterpieces – Martha Graham Dance Company & South Florida Symphony
(Photo: Lloyd Knight in Martha Graham’s “Appalachian Spring” © Hibbard Nash Photography.) Tonight (Wednesday) is South Florida’s last chance to see a pair of choreographic and musical masterpieces performed live….
Miami-raised Alvin Ailey star Jamar Roberts stages story of love & gratitude.
Jamar Roberts, a magnificent Miami-raised dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, has been keeping faith with his Miami teacher and mentor Angel Fraser Logan since the Ailey troupe scooped him up straight out of high school at the New World School of the Arts. I wrote about their moving story for the New York…
She’s in Control: Antonia Wright at Spinello Projects for Art Week
Control. Antonia Wright’s fast, brutal blast of a performance piece at Spinello Projects for Miami Art Week, took on multiple interpretations with that title. It’s a kind of miracle of meaning, a whole potentially tedious aesthetic and political essay in two syllables. The preparation took longer than the piece. On the Saturday I attended, the…
It’s Our Party – Celebrating Miami and the Knight Arts Challenge
Let’s call it an all-Miami house party. For locals, the celebration of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge winners that kicks off Miami Art Week is their best party. It’s the time when the city’s own artistic community gets to feel like the center of the glittering art/celebrity/marketing marathon that…
Qué Pasa, USA? returns – Miami’s Nostalgia for Cuban Nostalgia
Miami’s most culture-defining, groundbreaking TV series is coming back as a stage show. No, not Miami Vice. It’s Qué Pasa, USA?, the bi-lingual story of a multi-generational Cuban immigrant family that made legions of Cuban-Americans – and hyphenated immigrants after them – feel at home in their new country. Now Que Pasa, created and broadcast…
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