In-Depth Coverage By Miami's Top Arts Journalists
YoungArts Week played host to the program’s 167 finalists who descended upon Miami to perfect their craft by learning from master teachers and performing at various venues. The finalists were chosen from the 691 winners. The week provided an invaluable opportunity to learn from mentors and master teachers in all disciplines. Those included voice, theater, jazz, film, classical music, visual
Magician and illusionist Adam Trent’s show will keep you guessing and wondering if your eyes are deceiving you. He’s bringing his one-man show,
Chances are if you’re a film buff or happen to frequent Little Havana, you have attended at film at the Tower Theater. Hopefully you have, given that it is an institution
Miami Dances features insight into traditional and nontraditional dance programs, performers and choreographers that make Miami’s dance scene special. In this post we feature, Daniel Lewis, Founding Dean of the Dance School at New World School of the
Wanting to continually bring performers to outdoor spaces throughout Miami, the founders of Buskerfest Miami along with frequent collaborators Emerge Miami have won a Public Space Challenge Grant from the Miami Foundation for their event CULTRA. The idea behind CULTRA is to showcase Miami’s homegrown talents at three downtown Miami parks – Museum Park, Bayfront Park and Dan Paul Park on Parcel B. That’s where performances by local musicians, acrobats, theatrical groups and comedians will take over the green space. One of Buskerfest Miami’s founders, Amy San Pedro, spoke about CULTRA winning the Public Space Challenge Grant and what audiences can expect to see at the parks: How did you feel about being awarded the Public Space Challenge grant? We were thrilled! The competition was very stiff and we value the Miami Foundation’s belief in the project and our ability to make it special. What inspired the idea and when
A few minor raindrops fell before and during the outdoor screening of the five short films that made up “Transformations,” part of the Outside the Box series at the YoungArts Campus near Downtown Miami. The precipitation, however, did not keep more than 350 attendees from sitting transfixed as the five films were introduced and projected onto the building wall. Representatives from Borscht and Miami International Film Festivals were doling out info on their respective events as were others from the
It was a packed house recently when the internationally renowned experimental composer and performance artist Laurie Anderson spoke at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU. Anderson spoke as part of the Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series. The room broke out in rousing applause as Anderson, with her hair in a small bun atop her head and dressed in loose fighting jacket and pants, approached the podium. “It was a great
By Lisa Palley, Palley Promotes “For this year’s children and young adult program, Generation Genius, we’ve focused on bringing more of the best children’s and YA lit, emphasizing reading and discovering new authors,” said Nicole Swift, program manager for children/YA for 2016 Miami Book Fair. “When a child or teen sees an author present their
By Lisa Palley, Palley Promotes I’ve always loved the idea of poems and poetry; how cool did I feel in my solipsistic 20s holding a book of poems by W.S. Merwin on the train from Washington, D.C. for a weekend of New York Cities in the 80s. I loved when people looked at me, thinking