In his 70 plus year career, the great Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdés has gone from revolutionary to institution. Both aspects will be showcased Friday, when Valdés leads Irakere 45, a tribute to the groundbreaking Cuban jazz fusion band, at the Adrienne Arsht Center. The almost sold out show, which launches a U.S. tour that…
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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….
Dark and Dazzling – Dance, Theater, and Truth-telling in Bill T. Jones’s Analogy/Lance
Note: This performance was unfortunately canceled on Friday Jan. 5th, after the snowstorm in the Northeast sidelined the company’s flights, making it impossible for them to get to Miami. Ticketholders can receive a refund at point of purchase. For further questions, call the Arsht Center box office at 305-949-6722. Moving bodies are at the heart…
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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