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Dance NOW! Miami 2024 Program II, with guests Compagnia Opus Ballet WHEN: Sunday, March 17 at 3:00 pm WHERE: Miami Theater Center, 9806 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores, FL ADMISSION: $45 general admission, and $25 for Miami Shores residents and $15 for students, with valid IDs. Advance tickets at www.dancenowmiami.org/events/ FOR MORE INFO:
March 24, Palm Sunday in the Garden with the South Beach Chamber Ensemble, Miami Beach Botanical Garden; May 17 & 18, Program III: “Pop” and Other Works, 5/17 Broward Center & 5/18 Aventura Arts & Cultural Center; and June 10-14, World Dance Summer Intensive, Little Haiti Cultural Complex. |
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The advent of spring can mean just one thing – the return of Compagnia Opus Ballet,direct from Florence, Italy, for a new performance with Florida’s own Dance NOW! Miami. On Sunday, March 17, at 3 pm, the two ensembles will share the stage of the Miami Theater Center in Miami Shores. The afternoon will include a new, joint version of Gli Altri/The Others, and other works from each group.
This presentation of Gli Altri/The Others is the culmination of an international cultural partnership. Dance NOW! Miami traveled to Florence last July to work with Compagnia Opus Ballet, developing an expanded piece incorporating a blended cast and new sections never-before seen in Miami. Gli Altri/The Others, which had its original world premiere last May, was originally choreographed by Dance NOW! Artistic Directors Hannah Baumgarten and Diego Salterini, and marries filmmaker Federico Fellini’s cinematic imagery with confessional storytelling to create unique symbolism. The work is a social commentary on the identities of marginalized people. “This Italian-centric work was the perfect vehicle for a collaboration with Opus Ballet, and we are excited to share the stage with them again in Miami,” said Salterini. It includes sets and lighting from Bruce F. Brown, costumes by Haydee and Maria Morales, and original music by Davidson Jaconello.
The program will include an excerpt from The White Room, a new-to-Miami work from Opus Ballet, with choreography by Adriano Bolognino and music by Max Richter, Joep Beving and The National. This contemporary piece features nine performers in an abstract white space inspired by the painting, The Return From the Woods, by Giovanni Segantini. The afternoon will also feature an encore of Dance Now! Miami’s 2020 piece (B)orgia, a take on the Italian power family and its formidable matriarch. Tickets are $45 general admission, and $25 for Miami Shores residents and $15 for students, with valid IDs. Advance tickets and full information are available at www.dancenowmiami.org/events/
Other Dance NOW! Miami 2023/24 season events include: March 24, Palm Sunday in the Garden with the South Beach Chamber Ensemble, Miami Beach Botanical Garden; May 17 & 18, Program III: “Pop” and Other Works, 5/17 Broward Center & 5/18 Aventura Arts & Cultural Center; and June 10-14, World Dance Summer Intensive, Little Haiti Cultural Complex. Support for Dance NOW! Miami, and its performances, is provided in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Florida Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture; the Florida Council of Arts and Culture and the State of Florida (Section 286.25, Florida Statutes); the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners; the City of Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; the City of Coral Gables; Funding Arts Broward; Citizens Interested in Arts; Miami Salon Group; the Kirk Foundation; the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation; Florida Dance Education Organization; Miami Dance Futures; Foundation for New Education Initiatives; Miami ArtZine; the Samara Fund; the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau; the South Beach Group; KCC Productions; Akerman Law firm; Northern Trust Bank; the City of Miami Parks and Recreation Department and the Little Haiti Cultural Complex; and other donors. Dance NOW! is also funded by The Children’s Trust. The Trust is a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County. Dance NOW! is in a resident company of the Little Haiti Cultural Complex and the Miami Beach Bandshell. |