Dance

Together WE Dance is a collaborative effort among fellow artists, companies, schools, and dance studios to promote the arts.  This is an opportunity to expand the community’s range of exposure in dance by presenting many genres on stage.  Buy working with others to achieve individual goals, continued training, educational enrichment, diversity and creative insight, we are building a community of dance. A … +

Miami City Ballet’ Program Four will include: “Divertimento No. 15” created by George Balanchine in 1956 and inspired in Mozart’s 15th divertimento, it remains in the repertories of ballet companies around the world. “Arden Court”, one of Paul Taylor’s best-loved works, coming back to MCB after 15 years with the exhilarating Baroque music of William Boyce. It also will include “Who Cares?” … +

Inspired in Ibsen’s A Doll’s house, La Casa de la Muñeca by Ballet Flamenco La Rosa is an original Flamenco ballet by Ilisa Rosal. This production features guest artists from Spain such as La Sentío, Oscar de los Reyes and Eloy Aguilar, singer Alicia Morales and guitarist Israel Heredia. With its exquisite vocals and guitar melodies, this flamenco is at once sensual … +

Leading contemporary dance company, Augusto Soledade Brazzdance (ASBD), will premiere their latest piece Think Blue. Their performance will also include excerpts of different works both old and new, giving audience members a sample of ASBD’s diverse repertoire. Think Blue is inspired by the book Why The Sky Is Far Away: A Nigerian Tale, retold by Mary-Joan Gerson. This repertory work, along with … +

Winner of the 2015 TONY AWARD for Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book of a Musical, Fun Home is about Alison, a graphic novelist who dives deep into her past to tell the story of her father, a volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Through her work, she relives her unique upbringing in … +

Dance Now! heralds the spring season with a romantic evening of dance performances under the stars. Daniel Lewis will introduce the masterpiece “Ritmo Jondo” and the evening will include special performances from ATMA YogaDance Company and the talented students from TAME Dance Academy. Dance NOW! has received critical and popular acclaim both at the national and international level. The company’s work has … +

In its 25th year, Koresh Dance Company presents Classic KORESH, a selection of favorites drawn from the company’s quarter century of innovative work. These repertoire classics include interpretations of classical compositions by Bach and Ravel, from the rolling strains of “Air of a String” to the trumpeting processions of Bolero. Moments of tenderness and grace alternate with humor and brash force on … +

Returning to Miami following his critically-acclaimed debut in 2014, Jesús Carmona and his company of 11 dancers, musicians and vocalists perform an innovative and emotionally charged program created by Carmona. Titled Impetus (“bursting with energy”), the piece stars Carmona, who also choreographs and directs this powerful dance interpretation of the most famous scores from Spain’s beloved composers, including Albéniz, Riqueni and Escudero. … +

Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida is back on track with ballet season 2016-2017, and it is getting ready to present Chipollino, a spectacular ballet that has been enchanting audiences from all ages since its debut in Puerto Rico, back in 1992 and in Miami in 2001. The ballet is based on a fairy tale by Gianni Rodari. It is a two-act piece … +

Enjoy an intimate dance experience with the electric artists of Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami as they team up with three generations of local Latin American choreographers and literally “stretch” their own limits. Choreography by Yanis Pikieris, Douglas Gawriljuk, and Ariel Rose (courtesy of Miami City Ballet), including insightful commentary on the evolving creative process by each of the choreographers. South Miami … +

Max Pollak and his musicians meld Afro-Cuban music and dance with American jazz, body percussion and tap dance. An explosive brass and percussion section evokes a powerful “Orquesta” capturing the deep grooves and charged electricity of Afro-Latin Soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRH-mU83j0 Black Box Theater South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 Street Miami FL 33189 786.573.5316 www.smdcac.org

Following sell-out shows in the Northeast, Rockin’ Road to Dublin is coming to Fort Lauderdale on their first national tour. It comes as the new sensation that combines the art of an Irish dance show, the power of a Rock-N-Roll concert, with the finish of a Broadway theatrical production. Starring World Champion Irish dancers Scott Doherty and Ashley Smith, the cast includes … +

PAMM will screen eight short dance works created for the camera as part of Festival ScreenDance Miami. This year’s films were selected by a panel of four screen dance experts. Heidi Latsky’s film Soliloquy will be on view in the Vattikuti Learning Theater in conjunction with ScreenDance Miami programming. Films: Exquisite Corps by Mitchell Rose Mon Corps a Dos by Gaëlle Hannebicque … +

Their first-ever visit to Miami; Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s bold vision is been ranked as top global standard choreographers Company, including a groundbreaking repertoire and virtuoso dancers. The program will include three sets of Dance and two intermissions: 1st Flash with choreography by Jorma Elo; Silent Ghost with choreography by Alejandro Cerrudo and Huma Rojo with choreography by Cayetano Soto. Main Stage … +

Concluding a spectacular season on June, 2016 and including the participation at The International Young Dancers Festival in Indonesia, Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida prepares its new 2016-2017 season with four programs summoning the best of international ballet works. Under the artistic direction of Vladimir Issaev, the company is ready to embark on the season’s line up with rehearsals by Mid-August. The … +

The Waterfront Playhouse Gala presents “Rock around the clock shock hop gala”. This is a one-night-only event to dance away the night. It will include a best costume contest where poodle skirts and leather jackets are more than welcome. The night also features food by the Key West Iron Chefs, open bar, great music, and a silent auction, plus an Art Bike … +

Elephant Gerald is an elephant: lumbering, formally attired, prone to melancholy. Piggie is (what else!) a piggie: perky, smiley, full of fun. Total opposites? No way! In Mo Willems’s beloved, award-winning, bestselling children’s books, Elephant Gerald and Piggie are best friends! And in We Are in a Play!, a brand-new vaudevillian romp of a musical, Elephant Gerald and Piggie sing and dance … +

Founded by legendary dancer and former Prima Ballerina of The Bolshoi Theater Ballet, Maya Plissetskaya, The State Ballet Theater of Russia, now under the direction of award-winning dancer and Moiseyev dance company soloist Nikolay Anokhin, presents one of the greatest classical ballets of all time. This full-scale production, set to the music of Tchaikovsky and based on Russian folklore and German legend, … +

FUNDarte and Casa Patas -direct from Madrid- present Los Silencios del Baile, a performance to distinguish the art of flamenco. Performed by the renowned young dancer and coreographer Francisco Hidalgo and its company. The Company will provide a master class for local dancers about flamenco’s outbursts and blows of silence that define the passionate character of this form. Nov 5, 2016, 8:30 … +

The company that brought “Tango Fire” Estampas Porteñas presents their newest production. “Deseos” is a celebration of the greatest artistic elements of Argentina including the indomitable tango, the athletic malambo of the gauchos, and musical styles that range from the melancholic to celebratory. Deseos, a new creation of artistic director, Carolina Soler, will also include advanced technical elements such as projection mapping, … +

Hailed as one of the world’s greatest troupes, Limón Dance is the living legacy of dance theater developed by the legendary José Limón, whose innovative work revolutionized American movement. This performance will feature historical pieces representing the best works of the past 70 years. José Arcadio Limón (1908 – 1972) was a pioneer in the field of modern dance and choreography. In … +