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Perhaps the most cherished of all 19th-century ballets, Giselle, created in 1841, has never lost its preeminence in the repertory. Giselle, with its own wonderful score by Adolphe Adam, is the ultimate dance statement about the centrality of dance to life. Brought by Miami City Ballet in Program One of its current season. In Act One the ballerina gets to be a … +

Pianist Monty Alexander along with his Harlem-Kingston Express Band bring together the musical worlds of American jazz, Calypso, bebop and the music of his native Jamaica into one grand show. Monty Alexander long ago combined together the influence of Oscar Peterson with the soul of Gene Harris and Nat “King” Cole to form his personable style. His band Monty and the Cyclones … +

Named “Entertainer of the Century” by CNN in 1988, Charles Aznavour has a career spanning 70 years! Over 100 million record sales, 1,200 songs, 80 movies, 294 albums, hundreds of gold, platinum, diamond records and thousands of concerts in around 94 countries. Charles celebrated his 92nd birthday earlier this year, which makes him the “longest standing A List star” ever, still filling … +

On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. In this occasion, … +

The Miami Symphony Orchestra celebrates its Grand Opening Season with Eduardo Marturet as conductor and Ciro Fodere in piano. The program will include from Ravel: Bolero. The World Premiere of Di Concilio Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and also from Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade. The exotic World Premiere of Di Concilio’s tango influenced Piano Concerto presents the composer as the soloist. Knight Concert Hall … +

Omara Portuondo from the Buena Vista Social Club celebrates her 85 Tour with special guests. Omara’s 85th anniversary and 70 years of performing will become a musical party including Cuban classics from ‘Bésame mucho’ to ‘Veinte años.’ The tour aims to reflect the long journey of her stellar career. Joined by the amazingly gifted Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca, clarinetist and saxophonist Anat … +

Zoetic Stage opens the 2016-2017 Theater Up Close Season with the newest world premiere from multiple Carbonell Award-winning, internationally produced playwright, Michael McKeever, author of Daniel’s Husband and Clark Gable Slept Here. After is here directed by Stuart Meltzer. The Campbells and the Beckmans have been good friends and neighbors for years. When a senseless act of violence turns their perfect lives … +

DEATHSCRIBE MIAMI will span four nights showcasing the very best of Deathscribe, a selection of the top tales from the award-winning theater company’s eight-year history. They’ll bring stories of terror and their whole cabinet of horrors along with them. Each night they will present the top five stories in a best-of showcase run hosted by Artistic Director Josh Zagoren. Joining Halloween celebration, … +

On October 7, 2016, CGAC officially becomes the only art cinema in South Florida equipped to screen films in 70mm, the high resolution format that became synonymous with the medium’s epics and films of exceptional visual grandeur. The theater will proudly unveil its new system in two separate programs, the second of which will take place in the spring. Named after a … +

Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Russian master composer Sergei Prokofiev with excerpts of ballets Stone Flower, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and a world premier by Issaev inspired in his first symphony. Mary Carmen Catoya and Daniel Sarabia, company principal dancers will lead first roles. The program also includes the work of guest choreographer Miao Zong, to … +

#tags is the Miami debut solo exhibition from Berlin-based artist Marc Bijl. For #tags, Bijl has isolated a series of six words, directly sourced from his own life and global news headlines. Words like Anarchist, Family Man, Demagogue and Terrorist radiate in bright lettering on a suite of powder coated aluminum sheets. Removed from their original narrative, our brains are conditioned to … +

Robert Fontaine Gallery will celebrate its fifth year in Miami’s Wynwood Art District and its new gallery space with a grand opening exhibition titled Decadent City, a retrospective of the gallery’s history. Running through December 10, the exhibit will highlight those museum and emerging artists who have shaped the gallery’s program since its establishment in Wynwood. Robert Fontaine Gallery 2121 NW 2nd … +

Rafael Domenech’s The List of Messier Objects, historically refers to a book or list of astronomical objects. The book first appeared in 1771 and it was completed in 1966 when the last objects were added. Domenech utilizes The List of Messier Objects as an idea, structure and tool to organize a sequence of artworks in space, forming a pattern where all the … +

This “recommended for adults” show starring Las Vegas comedian Jerry Halliday will present a world-class puppet designer where his living and breathing characters don’t just say funny things, they are naturally funny, and quite often risqué. Jerry is so accomplished at manipulating his puppets that he virtually disappears while his characters become absolutely alive as they command the full attention of his … +

For decades, locals and visitors have enjoyed Freda Coffing Tchumy’s commissioned works at Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden (2005) and the Miami-Dade metro system University of Miami stop (1983). Strong Paintings is the first comprehensive survey on the work of this local sculptor and Master of bronze casting. The curatorial focus is put on the gestural, painterly quality of the artist’s experiments, that … +

Mike Mills of the mega rock band R.E.M. pairs up with Robert McDuffie, to present an eclectic evening of works by John Adams, Philip Glass, and Mills himself. Inspired by the increasingly blurred lines between classical and pop music, McDuffie commissioned his longtime friend Mills to compose his Concerto for Violin, Rock Band, and String Orchestra. The piece expertly blends Mills’ prolific … +

Theater Stage Door presents Topher Payne’s biting comedy Perfect Arrangement. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bob and Norma, have been tasked with identifying sexual deviants within their ranks. The twist: Both Bob and Norma are gay, and have married each other’s partners as a carefully constructed cover. Inspired by the true story of the earliest stirrings of the American gay rights movement, … +

As part of the Art + Research Center’s pilot semester, “New Social Abstractions,” arts theorist Evan Calder Williams will deliver a public lecture on analogy.This talk suggests a different history of analogy, seeing it not only as an abstraction used to think about historical breaks and continuities but also as a real structure materially constructed around us over recent centuries: that diffuse … +

On the first Wednesday of every month, ArtCenter/South Florida invites you to Resident Night (formerly STUDIOcrawl). Resident Night fosters a dynamic exchange of ideas with the community through a series of multidisciplinary programs proposed by our resident and visiting artists. Tracy Peters (Canada) will talk about her immersive studio practice and her investigations into the fluctuations of time, space, light and weather … +

Artist Elysa D. Batista created sculptural text acts as an inanimate presence watching over the viewer. You, Me and the Oher is a text work paired with footage taken from a live feed camera installed on Lincoln Road Mall, only blocks away from ArtCenter/South Florida. Through this work Batista exposes our lack of privacy and the overwhelming presence of social surveillance in … +

Fushu Daiko, South Florida’s taiko drum ensemble presents its newest show: Spirit Drummers. This is an original adaptation of the famous Japanese legend of the Gojinjo drummers of Nafune. In this legendary conflict of 1576, the unarmed people of Nafune village on the Noto peninsula used creative means to boldly defend themselves from marauding Samurai. The music of Spirit Drummers weaves original … +