Dance

KAREN PETERSON AND DANCERS RETURNS TO MIAMI WITH THE 4th ANNUAL FORWARD MOTION PHYSICALLY INTEGRATED DANCE FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE ON OCTOBER 27-29 Fourth Annual Event Features Florida Premieres Including Georgia’s Full Radius Dance and a new work by Guggenheim Fellow Victoria Marks for Karen Peterson and Dancers MIAMI (September 8, 2022) -- After a successful national tour, the acclaimed Miami-based dance pioneers, Karen Peterson and Dancers (KPD) welcome back their fourth annual Forward Motion Physically Integrated Dance Festival & Conference (FM4) taking place in Miami from October 27-29, 2022. This three-day event features Full Radius Dance, esteemed choreographer Victoria Marks and KPD themselves in a full program including performance premieres, panel discussions and educational workshops.

PROGRAM 1 CLASSICAL AND NEOCLASSICAL BALLETS ​Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida will officially open its 25th Anniversary season this coming October presenting a mixed bill of neo classical and classical repertoire, including Issaev’s Shostakovich Suites, and El Encuentro to Albinoni's Adagio. The program will also include Nebrada’s popular Pentimento with music by J. S. Bach and the classical Asaf Messerer’s Spring Waters. This piece is choreographed to one of Rachmaninoff’s most popular compositions that has been widely performed since he wrote it more than a hundred years ago and requires great virtuosity and strength from the professional dancers of the company.

FUNDarte, in collaboration with the Miami Dade County Auditorium, presents "Alejandra" By Jose Almarcha with bailaora Lucia Ruibal on Saturday, November 5 and Sunday, November 6. The tour and album of "Alejandra" are tributes to the mother of guitarist Jose Almarcha, who hails from La Mancha, Spain. His mother's sudden and unexpected loss changed how Mr. Almarcha composes and interprets Flamenco. "Alejandra" is a personal and intimate recording where memories reverberate within the flamenco themes Jose Almarcha develops. Behind each tone are glimpses into his interior being, personal history, roots, and identity. The result is an ideogram through musical sounds that evoke important memories, places, experiences, and people who left an imprint on him and are part of the DNA that comprises his identity.

DanceCrest Festival is an artistic gathering created to enrich the lives of the community through a dance experience. Participants will have the opportunity to show their work, exchange ideas, learn from master classes and workshops, and grow as dancers.

Belly Dance Stories is a women's empowerment theater production directed by Alexandra Molina and Valerick Molinary. The purpose is to highlight and project the voices of their students, who are women from all walks of life, as well as the Oriental Dance community, through creative performances. Each dancer has harnessed the power of Oriental Dance, aka "Belly Dance," in unique ways as a tool to navigate through moments in their lives whether it be for personal healing, to mark important events, strength to get through daily obstacles, every-day physical well being or the pure and simple joy of dance, music and movement.

Bollywood dance is a popular dance style from India used in Bollywood movies. Pooja uberoi has 20 years of experience as a dancer teacher and choreographer and uses her experience to being a freestyle Bollywood dance class for the whole family in Brickell,Miami

The professional division students have been working hard throughout the month of July, learning from the best teachers in the Vaganova Method and other disciplines. We invite you to come and watch the Summer Intensive Showcase. It includes performances of different styles of dance such as Character, Flamenco,Contemporary and excerpt from the ballet Le Conservatoire, Paquita, Le Corsaire, Harlequinade and more

Rise Above Concert Extravaganza is a full-length concert presentation highlighting the Stilt Artistry of Black Immigrants. This engaging production incorporates aspects of folkloric and contemporary African masquerade, dance, music, storytelling poetry and song in a multi-media framework. The concert features the work of African and Caribbean Stilt masters, and both regional, national and international African and Caribbean drummers, dancers, folklorists and actors. The performance blends traditional and contemporary performing arts with innovative set, lighting, media, and both acoustic and recorded music. The Tall Spirit concert is a family friendly presentation for audiences of all ages that explores the sustained role of the stilt and drummer as wise protector, an example of communal resilience and bridge between new and old themes.

As part of its annual festival, IFE-ILE dancers and musicians will perform alongside guest dancers from the company Dance Heals of Philadelphia and the University of Texas at El Paso. The gala will include a varied and entertaining program that will include pieces of contemporary dance, rumba, orishas, and Cubaton among other styles.

Cutting Edge dance program featuring national and international guest Modern and Contemporary dance companies The International Ballet Festival of Miami, July 23 – August 14 /2022, has been a Summer Highlight event in South Florida, inviting renowned national and international ballet companies represented by their stars from: Europe, South America, Asia, Canada and the USA The IBFM Contemporary performances presents cutting Edge dance programs featuring national and international guest Modern and Contemporary dance companies, presenting an exciting and eclectic mix of dance styles and music. Guest companies from Colombia, Dominican Republic, France, Switzerland, and US.