The documentary film Letters to Eloisa, about a revered, obscured Cuban writer and his fraught relationship with the Cuban government, tells the story of one man on an island. But director Adriana Bosch’s tale of José Lezama Lima, whose gorgeous, complex writing was hailed internationally even as the author, who allied and then broke with…
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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…
The singular, spectacular Joey Arias
Long before drag was mainstream and creating a gender-blurring self was an activist act, Joey Arias was doing both. The singular diva, singer and artist-entertainer, who performs Friday as part of Fundarte’s Out in the Tropics festival, is a legendary founding figure of New York’s art/music/nightlife underground. A word he scoffs at, one of the…
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