Music

Milonga, Sonata y Plata by Marco Flores at Miami Dade County Auditorium
May 6, 2022 8:00 p.m.

This production unites two influential contemporary Spanish artists: Marco Flores, a multi-awarded bailaor and choreographer, and José Almarcha, a lead guitarist. Both develop a dance, scenic and musical dialogue that spontaneously juggles embracing and departing from classical forms, which creates their contemporary expression. The work will reference the Silver Age of Spanish culture: Antonio José Martínez Palacios, Sabicas, and García Lorca. Also … +

Events

Out In The Tropics 2022
April 7th to May 7th, 2022 | Various Venues

FUNDarte presents Out in the Tropics 2022. This year we are happy to announce a comprehensive program of live events featuring diverse artistic disciplines and poetics. Miami audiences will be able to enjoy Corporeal Decorum (premiere) choreographed by Liony Garcia (Miami); Réquiem por un Alcavarán by Lukas Avendaño (Mexico); a double-bill musical performance featuring Sadonna, by Miguel Gutierrez (New York) and Trópico … +

Events

Tomorrow! Global Cuba Fest 2022 Closing Night
March 12th, 2022

FUNDarte and Miami Light Project present a double-bill concert featuring Jorge Luis Pacheco and Carlos Averhoff Jr. with Special Guest Artists on March 12th at 8:00 p.m for the Global Cuba Fest 2022 Closing Night at Miami Dade County Auditorium. Global Cuba Fest Closing Night MARCH 12th – Miami Dade County Auditorium The Closing Night of the XV edition of the Global … +

News

FUNDarte, Miami-Dade County Auditorium and Siren arts present Climakaze Miami 2021
Saturday, August 21st at 8:00 pm

FUNDarte, the Miami-Dade County Auditorium, and Siren arts, present Climakaze Miami 2021 featuring the performance Mermaid Truth or Consequences: A Biodiversity Game Show by Elizabeth Doud, on August 21st at 8:00 p.m. at the On.Stage Black Box Theatre at Miami-Dade County Auditorium. Mermaid Truth or Consequences is a live game show where, if you can’t tell the truth and biodiversity loss, you … +

Events

Miami-Dade County Auditorium presents MDCA IRL: Summer, a new theater series
Fri Jul 9, 2021 - Sat Aug 28, 2021

This indoor series includes the return of the 35th International Hispanic Theatre Festival, the free International Children’s Day, a jazz concert starring Negroni’s Trio & Edgar Omar, performances featuring Conecta: Miami Arts, ARCA Images, FUNDarte’s Climakaze Miami 2021 and more. MDCA and Teatro Avante present the 35th International Hispanic Theatre Festival, featuring theatrical performances by companies from Uruguay, Ecuador and Mexico. These … +

Dance

Companhia Urbana de Dança is back In Miami at MDCA
Mar 21, 2020, 8:30 PM

FUNDarte’s NO BORDERS Series presents, Contemporary Dance from Brazil. Companhia Urbana de Dança tears up the stage with a high-energy fusion of hip-hop, samba, capoeira, and contemporary dance in boldly imaginative choreography by Brazilian choreographer Sonia Destri Lie. Alternately mesmerizing and rippling with adrenaline and raw energy, their works explore the cultural roots of Brazil and the gritty life stories of the … +

Performing Arts

The Nutcracker at Miami Dade County Auditorium
Dec 7, 2019, 7 PM

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker is Miami’s oldest presentation of the holiday classic and has been enjoyed by over 300,000 audience members over 42 years. The cast is a celebration of Miami’s diversity, featuring students from all five TAYB locations, dancers from New World School of the Arts, and internationally known guest stars. Don’t miss this timeless classic this … +

Dance

Brigid Baker WholeProject presents Remain in Light at Miami-Dade County Auditorium.
Oct 3, Nov 1, Nov 2 and 3 at 8pm

Inspired by the 1980 seminal David Byrne/Brian Eno album, Remain in Light is a phenomenal aggregate of funk, hip hop, afro beat, minimalism, punk, ambient and electronica. The album demurs from fusion and meets on another harmonic plane of collaborative engagement. Remain in Light celebrates meeting the “otherness” of the natural world with this same collaborative engagement. From that spirit of welcome … +

Dance

FUNDarte presents FLAMENCOS at Miami Dade County Auditorioum
November 9th & 10th, 2019

Unrivaled flamenco masters Casa Patas return to Miami Dade County Auditorium with their newest show, RAIZ DE 4, created by and featuring Rafael Peral and Marisa Adame.  RAIZ DE 4 honors the art of Flamenco by delving into its most primitive roots, evoking the convergence of cultures and the folklore of Spain. The work expresses the purest styles of flamenco, some of … +

Music

Benise, the Prince of Spanish Guitar, returns to MDCA!
Saturday, October 12 at 8pm

Benise, “the Prince of Spanish Guitar”, and his Emmy Award-winning music and dance spectacular return to Miami-Dade County Auditorium on Saturday, October 12, 8pm. His newest production, “Fuego!” takes the audience on a romantic and exotic journey of music and dance that celebrates the fire, passion and spirit of Spain. Benise debuts all new music, dance and costumes, adding his signature twist … +

Music

FUNDarte and Musicall present ZunZún Children’s Fest V Anniversary Concert!
Sat Oct 5th, 2019 at 2:00pm

FUNDarte’s 2019-20 Season opens up with the 5th edition of our International Festival of The Arts for Youth and Children, “ZunZún Children’s Fest”. A fun journey of classical and contemporary orchestral music performed by Musicall, brings us a lively Miami children’s orchestra, conducted by Jose Antonio Bornot. Rita Rosa Ruesga and musicians interpret the most popular and lasting Latin American songs. ZunZún … +

Performing Arts

CCE Miami presents La Golondrina by Guillem Clua
Sep 12th,13th at 8:30 p.m | Sep 14th at 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

The premiere of the Theater Play, La Golondrina by the Spanish play-writer Guillem Clua, inspired by the Pulse nightclub terrorist attacks in Orlando (USA) will take place at MDCA on September 12th-14th. What is it that make us human? Among all the things that we are and we do, what is it that truly defines our human nature? For Amelia, a mother heart … +

Dance

FUNDarte presents Flamenco Rave II – Nuevo Flamenco
March 9th at 8:30 p.m. and 10th at 6:00 p.m.

FUNDarte in collaboration with The Miami Dade County Auditorium proudly presents Flamenco Rave II – Nuevo Flamenco featuring Sergio de Lope; Diego Guerrero; María Terremoto; and Miguel Ángel Cortés with Dani Bonilla and Lucía Álvarez “La Piñona”, among others. March 9 – 8:30 p.m. & 10 – 6:00 p.m. Miami Dade County Auditorium. Experience the explosive movement and sound of 15 contemporary … +

Performing Arts

Teatro Avante’s new play explores the Cuban exile experience at MDCA
From Jan 31 through Feb 3, 2019

Miami-Dade County Auditorium and Teatro Avante present En Ningún Lugar del Mundo (Nowhere in the World) by playwright Abel González Melo. The dramatic comedy explores the relations between Cubans from two shores, and poses the question: Do visible borders define one’s homeland? Exile breaks up families, and years of separation produce the mirage of a reunion. After a long forced exile, Ángel returns to … +

Performing Arts

Nilo Cruz’s Exquisita Agonía performs at MDCA
Nov 16 through 18, 2018

Miami-Dade County Auditorium and ARCA Images present Exquisita Agonía, (Exquisite Agony), by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, a story of love and loss, grief and romantic obsession. When opera singer Millie’s husband Lorenzo, a famous classical musician, dies in a car crash, her grief leads her to a doctor’s office, in a desperate search for the recipient of her husband’s heart. Millie … +

Performing Arts

Benise’s FUEGO Spirit of Spain at Miami Dade County Auditorium
Sat Oct 13, 2018

Benise’s spectacular new PBS production ‘Fuego!’ is one hot night! A journey of music and dance that celebrates the fire, passion, and spirit of Spain. Armed with his Spanish guitar, Benise is backed by a stage full of musicians and choreographed Spanish dancers. This is an Emmy Award Winning show. Miami Dade County Auditorium 2901 West Flagler Street Miami, Florida 33135 305. … +

Performing Arts

FUNDarte presents for the first time in Miami “Mendoza”, a theater play by Los Colochos Teatre
October 11th and 12th, 2018

FUNDarte in collaboration with The Miami Dade County Auditorium presents Mendoza, a theater play by Los Colochos Teatro (Mexico). The internationally acclaimed and award winner play will impress the Miami audience for two nights only, October 11th & 12th, 2018. “Mendoza” is an adaptation by Antonio Zúñiga and Juan Carrillo of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth in a Mexican context. With an alternative dramaturgy … +

Music

Guitar virtuoso Benise performs at MDCA
Sat Oct 13, 2018

Benise’s spectacular new PBS production ‘Fuego!’ is one hot night! The Emmy Award-winning composer and virtuoso guitarist takes his audience on an unprecedented journey of music and dance that celebrates the fire, passion, and spirit of Spain. Armed with his Spanish guitar, Benise is backed by a stage full of an international cast of musicians and dancers from Brazil, Cuba, France, Italy, … +

Events

Zunzún Children’s Fest Brings Music and Theater for the Entire Family!
October 6th, 2018 – 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

FUNDarte’s FY 2018-19 Season opens Saturday, October 6th, 2018 with the 4th edition of our International Festival of The Arts for Youth and Children, Zunzún Children’s Fest featuring music from Rita Rosa Ruesga (Cuba/Miami), theatre performances El camino del bosque by Artefactus Cultural Project (Miami), Martina, The Little Roach by Teatro SEA (New York), and film Títeres: Puppetry in the Caribbean, by … +

Performing Arts

Penal de Ocaña by Nao D’Amores at MDCA
Fri Sep 14, 2018 - Sat Sep 15, 2018

Nao d’amores, is a theater company developing Medieval and Renaissance Theater formed by a troupe of professional actors and musicians with classical theater, puppetry and music backgrounds directed by Ana Zamora. Penal de Ocaña is one of the company’s most renowned and emblematic contemporary productions. The play is the journal of María Josefa Canellada, a student of philosophy in Madrid in 1936, … +

Performing Arts

33rd International Hispanic Theater Festival of Miami
Thu Jul 12, 2018 - Sun Jul 29, 2018

Avante Theater, Adrienne Arsht Center and Miami Dade County Auditorium present the 33rd Miami International Hispanic Theater Festival. The Festival will consist of 9 shows from six countries: Argentina, Spain, United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Uruguay. The works will be performed in Spanish and some with supertitles in English. Performances and Venues: Jul 12, 2018, 8: 30 PM Carnival Studio Theater at … +

Music

FUNDarte presents Flamenco Rave: The New Flamenco Sound of Spain
Sun Mar 25, 2018

Experience the explosive movement of contemporary flamenco that is currently taking Spain by storm in this day-long festival featuring the most challenging and innovative experiments in freshly updated flamenco expression from the Iberian peninsula. This program features several of Spain’s most celebrated talents in the Flamenco genre: master pianist DORANTES, as well as acclaimed contemporary artists Daniel Casares, Naike y Paquete, vocalist … +

Music

Pianist Frederic Rzewski in Concert at Miami Dade County Auditorium
Sat 1 Apr, 2017

Composer and virtuosic pianist Frederic Rzewski will open Tigertail’s Fire festival with a solo concert. Rzewski is recognized both for his innovative works and for his strong political convictions. His pieces often bridge the gap between classical music and avant-garde jazz. This major figure will make a rare appearance in the U.S. for a single Miami concert. Rzewski began playing piano at … +