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To Be or Not To Be Cuban
Written by By Mia Leonin    Saturday, 25 May 2013 06:21

Hamlet, Prince of Cuba at the South Miami Cultural Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center

When it comes to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, productions and adaptations abound, but Michael Donald Edwards, Artistic Director of Sarasota’s Asolo Repertory Theatre has the distinction of creating the first Cuban Hamlet. Edwards’ adaptation made its Miami debut with English and Spanish productions the second weekend of May at the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay.
 
Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami
Written by Fran Robbins    Saturday, 25 May 2013 06:21

Sometimes progress is made by revering the past

altWhen Pedro Pablo Peña dreams, he dreams big. It is not just his own dance company that he wants in Miami, it must be ballet; and not just ballet but specifically classical ballet. Peña wants entire programs performed to the rigorous, traditional standards taught in the Cuban School of Ballet, and he wants a school dedicated to maintaining Cuban Ballet technique. There is no other way to preserve the virtuosity of this level of dance: “Standards”, he says, “must be maintained.”
 
A Jewel In Our Own Back Yard. Dance Now! Ensemble and the Bass Museum
Written by Miguel Angel Estefan Jr.    Saturday, 25 May 2013 06:21
altThe Dance Now! Ensemble, celebrating its 10th anniversary season, presented in collaboration with the Bass Museum, its most recent site-specific work, “Ekphrasis: Art From Art.”  Ekphrasis - a Greek term which co-director Diego Salterini enthusiastically described to me
 


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