The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and The Miami Light Project are proud to announce the Miami artists commissioned for MIAMI MADE WEEKEND’S HERE & NOW: 2010. The MIAMI MADE WEEKEND is the Adrienne Arsht Center’s annual showcase of innovative, groundbreaking work, created by artists living and working in South Florida. HERE & NOW is the flagship program, co-presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center and Miami Light Project, which features newly commissioned work by local artists of all disciplines, and is dedicated to fostering the professional development of South Florida artists.
MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES
Three world premieres by local artists: HERE & NOW – March 5-7, 2010
FREE, BEHIND-THE-SCENES EVENTS
Works-In-Progress: INCUBATOR – March 6 & 7, 2010
Play Reading: OUTLOUD – March 6 & 7, 2010
Panel Discussions: TALKING HERE & NOW — March 6 & 7, 2010
Weekend Package tickets are on sale now; single tickets go on sale on February 12, 2010. Single tickets for HERE & NOW: Program A or Program B are $25. The $40 Full Weekend Package includes: tickets to HERE & NOW: Program A & Program B; Incubator; Outloud; and three Talking Here & Now industry and artist sessions. Tickets for Incubator, Outloud, and Talking Here & Now are FREE and ticketed. Tickets can be obtained through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office at (305) 949-6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org.
Miami Light Project’s signature commissioning program, HERE & NOW, has been dedicated to the professional development of South Florida-based artists since 1999. In 2004, the Adrienne Arsht Center joined Miami Light Project as a commissioning partner, and in 2007 HERE & NOW performances moved to their new home in the Carnival Studio Theater. In 11 years, HERE & NOW has commissioned work from more than 65 South Florida-based artists, whose work has contributed to the growing reputation of Miami as a cultural center of international importance. Over 30 of those artists have gone on to perform that work in 14 states and 15 countries for an estimated audience of 20,000 people world-wide. In 2008, HERE & NOW was one of the 31 inaugural grant recipients of The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Arts Partnership Program. The selected Here & Now: 2010 artists and their works represent a diverse mix of music, dance and theater disciplines.
“Supporting community-based artists is the single most important activity in which a cultural institution can choose to engage, and HERE & NOW is the most important artistic program that Miami Light Project has ever developed,” said Beth Boone, Artistic and Executive Director of Miami Light Project. “As such, we are thrilled to have the Adrienne Arsht Center as our partner, as we lead the charge to establish Miami as an internationally recognized cultural center. Miami’s artists not only reflect who we are as a community, they help to define it.”
MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES
HERE & NOW: 2010 features the commissioned work of Rudi Goblen, Juraj Kojs, and Jillian Mayer.
Rudi Goblen’s Fare Welling is an interactive, one-man dance theater piece performed by Goblen that explores one man’s depression and morality through letters and conversations with the most influential people in his life. Rudi Goblen is an MC, poet, dancer, and actor. He has appeared with musical greats including The Roots, Mos Def, De La Soul, and is an acclaimed B-Boy and co-founder of the legendary crew, Flipside Kings. Goblen has traveled the world judging and competing in various competitions, and has won break dance competitions in France, South America, Holland, Canada, the U.K., and Asia. He is a recipient of the “Future Aesthetics Artist Regrant” (FAAR) from the Ford Foundation.
Created by Juraj Kojs, Neraissance: Self-powered Multimedia Art is a 24-minute multimedia composition in which three runners/performers work out on stationary bicycles and, with the assistance of dynamo systems, produce electrical energy. This energy then powers a microcosm of various small rotating, and light- and sound-emitting electronic objects. A truly contemporary piece of stage art, Neraissance addresses issues such as ecology, economy, and energy preservation. Juraj Kojs is the Director of Music Programs at Harold Golen Gallery in Miami, and a Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art at Yale University’s Department of Music. In 2008, he received his Ph.D. in Composition and Music Technologies at the University of Virginia. Kojs has won multiple awards for his work, including the first place prize at the Eastern Electroacoustic Composition and Performance Competition and an honorable mention at the Digital Art Awards in Tokyo, Japan. His articles on cyber instruments have been published in journals such as Organized Sound, Digital Creativity, and Leonardo Music Journal.
Mrs. Ms, the new work by Jillian Mayer, is a multi-disciplinary experimental work that parodies conventional musicals and explores stereotypes about marriage and romantic unions. The main character ignores all negations of the truth in order to maintain a fairy book romantic life, which never comes to fruition. Sweet ideals of marriage to her beloved pet dog enter and flee quickly until she stumbles onto the often-ignored obvious method: self-love. Abstract and non-linear digressions of romance intertwine throughout to make the audience re-evaluate companionship through dance, song, and pop culture. Jillian Mayer is a visual and performance artist based in Miami. She is also a member of Heartbreakers, an all-female break dance group.
Also featured this year, is guest artist Rosie Herrera, who will present a work progress showing of her latest dance piece, Dining Alone. Rosie was featured in Here & Now; 2010 with Various Stages of Drowning, a piece which subsequently toured to the American Dance Festival. Dining Alone has been commissioned by the American Dance Festival and the Arsht Center and will premier at the
American Dance Festival in North Carolina in July 2010.
“These three artists were specifically chosen to represent the wide breadth of South Florida’s creativity, talent, and imagination. By bringing the work of South Florida’s most creative minds to the Adrienne Arsht Center stage, we continue to redefine the traditional boundaries of the performing arts and expand the repertory of works to be performed and enjoyed by future generations of artists and audiences,” said Scott Shiller, Executive Vice President of the Adrienne Arsht Center.
The Adrienne Arsht Center
And Miami Light Project present
MIAMI MADE WEEKEND
Featuring Here & Now: 2010, Incubator, and Outloud Showcase Performances
Plus Talking Here & Now, panel discussions with arts industry experts and artists
A full weekend program of local South Florida artists, working on the cutting-edge of new, contemporary performing arts in this festival showcase of commissioned and in-progress works. Outloud, Incubator, and Talking Here & Now events are FREE.
March 5-7, 2010
Carnival Studio Theater & Peacock Foundation Studio
(in the Ziff Ballet Opera House)
Adrienne Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL, 33132
Single Tickets: $25
Weekend Package: $40
Single tickets are available online at: www.arshtcenter.org, in-person at the box office window, or by phone: (305) 949-6722. Weekend Package tickets are available at the box office window or by phone.