Performing Arts

SMDCAC presents STREB Extreme Action
Sat 20 Jan, 2018 - Sun 21 Jan, 2018

Not dancers, but STREB super heroes perform a wild kaleidoscope of action events careening through, around, and above invented structures accompanied by high energy music and STREB’s resident DJ. STREB’ choreographer Elizabeth Streb calls her dancers action heroes. STREB aims to create work that speaks of and to intrinsic human potential. Reinventing a radical art, entwined with the culture of the street, … +

Music

Trio Nation feat. Dave Holland, Ignacio Berroa and Martin Bejerano at SMDCAC
Sat 13 Jan, 2018

Featuring the legendary Multi-GRAMMY® award-winning bassist Dave Holland, GRAMMY® nominated drumming icon Ignacio Berroa, and internationally acclaimed pianist Martin Bejerano, Trio Nation is an exciting modern piano trio representing some of the top talent in jazz. Black Box Theater South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211th St Miami FL 33189 786.573.5316 www.smdcac.org

Music

A Seraphic Fire Christmas at South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center
Thu 14 Dec, 2017 - Sun 17 Dec, 2017

Seraphic Fire brings top ensemble singers and instrumentalists from around the country to perform repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant and Baroque masterpieces, to Mahler and newly commissioned works by this country’s leading composers. Two of the ensemble’s recordings, Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem and A Seraphic Fire Christmas, were nominated for 2012 GRAMMY® Awards, making Seraphic Fire the only choral ensemble in North … +

Music

SMDCAC hosts Miami Lyric Opera Gala 2017
Sat 28 Oct, 2017 - Sun 29 Oct, 2017

The most loved arias, duets and ensembles with the inclusion of famous overtures and “intermezzi” from the most celebrated Italian operas such as La Forza del Destino, Lucia di Lammermoor, L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) and La Bohème will be included in Miami Lyric Opera Gala. Highlights with Chorus’ and Orchestra solos from the greatest Opera composers, such as Giuseppe Verdi, … +

Cinema

Indie Flicks presents Score: A Film Music Documentary at SMDCAC
Fri 20 Oct, 2017

SCORE: A Film Music Documentary follows the creative struggles of designing a modern soundtrack from scratch, featuring some of cinema’s most recognized names in film music. SCORE explores the power and influence of film scores in the modern world while revealing the evolution of sound and how composers assemble music the complements a picture to achieve powerful reactions from worldwide audiences. Classroom … +

News

Free Exhibit Evening at the Deering Estate “Capturing Brazzdance” and “Twelve Summers”
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

“Twelve Summers” features GroveHouse Artists’ paintings and watercolors from their 12th season of collaboration with the Deering Estate and includes works from the January Affair en Plein Air juried painting event. In “Capturing Brazzdance,” photographer Carlos Di Roberto Martinez documents the choreographic and performative works from Augusto Soledade’s Brazzdance 2016–2017 season. This initiative invites photographers and visual artists to capture the company’s … +

Cinema

Indie Flicks brings Pushing Dead at SMDCAC
Fri 15 Sep, 2017

Indie Flicks (the Independent Film Series) brings Pushing Dead. It tells the story of Dan Schauble, who attempts to navigate his way through a Byzantine insurance system to correct a problem after the denial of his prescription refill. Directed and written by Tom E. Brown, in the cast: James Roday, Danny Glover, Robin Weigert, Khandi Alexander, and Tom Riley; the film is … +

Music

SMDCAC presents David Feder in Concert
Wed 9 Aug, 2017

Guitarist/songwriter David Feder has been captivating audiences with his playful music for over 20 years. His fresh approach to finger style guitar has brought new life into the American Gypsy-World Music scene. Three decades of island-living in the Florida Keys has influenced Feder’s breezy yet sophisticated music. Feder has been praised by NPR’s All Songs Considered, World Café Live, PBS Art Loft, … +

Music

The Barber of Seville at SMDCAC
Sat 5 Aug, 2017

The Barber of Seville, performed by Miami Lyric Opera, remains one of Rossini’s most frequently performed comic operas in the repertoire. The barber of the title is Figaro, whose impressive entrance aria (“”Largo al factotum””)—with its repeated proclamations of his own name—is one of the best-known of all opera arias. The Barber of Seville will be conducted by Beverly Coulter, with Raffaele … +

Cinema

SMDCAC presents 13th Documentary Screening
Fri 21 Jul, 2017

A free educational screening of the critically acclaimed documentary 13TH directed by Ava DuVernay. 13TH, explores the history of race and the criminal justice system in the United States. The screening will be followed by a brief discussion with a legal expert moderated by South Florida’s own Jill Tracey, host of WHQT Hot 105’s Hot Talk with Jill Tracey. Black Box Theatre … +

Museums

Celebrating the art of Mexican photography this summer at the Frost Art Museum FIU
Through Thu 7 Sep, 2017

In 1955, Manuel Carrillo (1906-1989) began photographing and documenting indigenous Mexico. His street photography of campesinos, indios, mestizo men, women and children chronicled Mexico’s essential character and recorded everyday life. Carrillo embraced the ideas of Mexicanidad, a cultural movement that emerged in the 1920s after Mexico’s Revolution, which comprised influential writers, photographers, and artists. Its overriding ambition was to substantiate a national … +

Music

Wendy Pedersen & Jim Gasior at SMDCAC
Fri 14 Jul, 2017

Two of South Florida’s most enduring performers, vocalist Wendy Pedersen and pianist Jim Gasior, present an evening of jazz. Music from their album We Two, offering new interpretations of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, the Gershwin brothers and brand new arrangements. Black Box Theatre South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center 10950 SW 211 Street Miami FL 33189 786.573.5316 … +

Dance

SMDCAC presents Fever: A Night of Summer Ballet
Sat 8 Jul, 2017

Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, newest critically acclaimed contemporary ballet company brings a collection of ballets this summer. The program includes three Miami premieres, and the reprise of two audience favorites. The featured ballet is renowned Venezuelan choreographer Vicente Nebrada’s “Fiebre,” set to the hits of Cuban singing sensation La Lupe, with live musical accompaniment by Alain Garcia and his Latin Power … +

Cinema

MOKA at MDC’s Tower Theater
Fri 23 Jun, 2017

To find the driver of the vintage mocha-colored Mercedes which she thinks hit her son and devastated her life, Diane Kramer (Emmanuelle Devos) embarks on a trip to take revenge. She goes to Évian, where she has learned the driver of the Mercedes lives, but she now has to face another woman, Marlene (Nathalie Baye) – a beauty salon proprietor and owner … +

Music

Los Nocheros 30 Aniversario Concert at SMDCAC
Sun 4 Jun, 2017

Los Nocheros will celebrate their 30th anniversary Concert at South Miami Dade County Auditorium. Los Nocheros is a pop/folk music group from Salta, Argentina. Composed of Mario Teruel, Rubén Ehizaguirre, Kike Teruel and Álvaro Teruel (who replaced Jorge Rojas when the latter pursued a solo career in 2005). Their 1994 debut album was titled Con El Alma. Los Nocheros gained fame during … +

Dance

Vienna comes to Miami in 
Karen Peterson & Dancer’s “Scrutiny”

May 11 & 12 at Miami-Dade County Auditorium

International Mixed Ability Dance Collaboration with Austria’s LizArt Productions What makes a person or object physically beautiful? How do our ideas of what makes compelling contemporary dance change when people with disabilities are fully included on stage? Together, Miami’s Karen Peterson and Dancers (KPD) and Austria’s LizArt Productions (LAP) dive into these questions, and address the state of the world today, in … +

Dance

SMDCAC presents Gallim Dance
Sat 22 Apr, 2017

Gallim Dance is one of New York’s leading contemporary dance companies. Artistic Director Andrea Miller creates works of uncompromising language that exert every drop of sweat, every breath, and full abandonment from a virtuosic company of dancers. With each new work, Gallim dives into singular explorations of universal struggles such as love, spirituality, and the tensions between the individual and collective experience. … +

Dance

Manual Cinema: Lula Del Ray at SMDCAC
Sat 29 Apr, 2017

A film performed in real time with overhead projectors, shadow puppets, actors in silhouette, and live music. The film’s setting is the mid-century American Southwest and is inspired by the music of Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and Patsy Cline. Lula Del Ray is a mythic reinvention of the classic coming-of-age story. There will be an O, Miami Poetry Festival Free Closing Night … +