Dance

The groundbreaking company returns with new and classic works, including founder Alvin Ailey’s masterpiece Revelations, the “Ailey gift that somehow keeps on giving” (The New York Times). Celebrating its 65th anniversary season, the company will perform three shows in the Ziff Ballet Opera House. These will include new works commissioned specifically for Ailey: Amy Hall Garner’s rousing, high-spirited tribute to her grandfather, CENTURY; Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish’s dreamlike reminiscence of romance, Me, Myself and You; new productions of Ronald K. Brown’s Dancing Spirit, Jamar Roberts’ Ode and Solo by Hans van Manen; and, as always, Alvin Ailey’s timeless triumph Revelations, which has been moving audiences for decades with its powerful storytelling and soul-stirring music. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater never fails to remind us of the power of dance to bring people together. With their trademark brilliance and passionate energy, these dancers bring the audiences to their feet at every performance. Learn choreography from Revelations and see the award-winning Florida Memorial University marching band! Before the Friday night performance on February 2, we will celebrate the extraordinary legacy of Alvin Ailey and the African American cultural experience through a pre-show activation on the plaza in partnership with BOMA (Black Owned Media Alliance). Beginning at 6:00 p.m., Step Into Dance – A Tribute to Black History Month will feature a Revelations workshop where the community can learn choreography from the masterpiece followed by performances from the Florida Memorial University marching band, drumline, dance and step teams. Admission to the pre-show activation is free with a ticket to that evening's performance.

Considered one of the foremost masters of Odissi in the world, Bijayini Satpathy is renowned the world over for her grace and she embodies the spirit and profound storytelling of classical Indian dance in a way few others have achieved. Now, in the prime of her artistic life, Satpathy embarks on a journey to expand the tradition through her own choreographic work. After 25 years as Principal Dancer with India’s famed Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, Satpathy strikes out on her own to create this singular solo work that radically integrates Odissi’s past and proposes its possible futures. In this evening – length choreographic debut, Satpathy reimagines classical Odissi forms through a personalized interpretation that charts a journey of discovery in physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. This critical success, a dramatic exploration and reshaping of an ancient tradition, has catapulted Satpathy to the forefront of the field. Satpathy has been hailed by New Yorker Magazine for her “exquisite grace and technique” and by international press around the world for her unparalleled artistic expression.

Celebrating 10 Years! Join Miami Light Project to revisit work by the incredible local artists who have made ScreenDance Miami the thriving, international festival that it is today. Program Order: Selfness (2016, 4:35 min) Isis Masoud gods always behave like the people that make them (2016, 5:35 min) Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez & Shaneeka Harrell Release (2016, 6:15 min) Christin Paige Minnotte & Marissa Alma Nick Containment (2015, 1:37 min) Moira Holohan & Niurca Marquez Gimp Gait (2016, 5:06 minutes) Pioneer Winter & Tabatha Mudra Heron (2016, 5:01) Roxana Barba HOME (2017, 7:50 min) Jenny Larsson Docked (2017, 3:20) Maya Billig Marooned (2021, 11:09 min) Hattie Williams & Christian Salazar Nostalgia in Domicella (2019, 6:00 min) Carla Forte & Alexey Taran Flickering Glades (2019, 9:32 min) Dale Andree and Claudio Marcotulli HOW TO: Oh, look at me (2021, 12:00 min) GeoVanna Gonzalez, Alondra Balbuena, Cheina Ramos D3C05 (2021, 3:42 min) Blaze Gonzalez, Hannah Gaengler, Liony Garcia

Please join us for a ScreenDance Miami Festival 2024 Projection Wall Screening with Short Film Selections. Please join Miami Light Project for ScreenDance Miami Festival 2024. This evening out of doors and features films from our Florida Focus program, plus Invited International Films screened on New World Center’s Projection Wall at Soundscape Park. Don’t miss exciting work by filmmakers working in Miami, France, Lebanon, and Vietnam. Buoyant and Urban Genesis are screened in partnership with the Fifth Wall Film Festival in the Philippines. Program Order: This Porous Earth (2023, 11:47 min, World Premiere, Miami) Smita Sen What is it about a location that preserves the soul of another? This Porous Earth is a dance film that lingers in the shallow pools and mangrove swamps of South Florida, probing at the nature of grief, memory, and the airy bedrock that carries it all. Oxowusi (2023, 13:57 min, World Premiere, Miami) Augusto Soledade and Gabriel Yjalade Oxowusi juxtaposes certain aspects of a Candomble initiate with the Yoruba-based tale of how Oxossi, the one arrow hunter, became a deity. It seeks to reflect on the relevance of ancestral memory and our connection to the contemporary life. From A Season Cocooned (2021, 5:09 min, Miami) Ryan Swartzlander and Pangea Kali Virga A colorful montage of movement, fashion, nature and metamorphosis transforms into a story of adaptation and perseverance… one eerily and powerfully reminiscent of humanity’s amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Incise Out (2023, 26 min, France/Lebanon) Dalia Naous Incise Out is a video-dance that explores the relation between the intimate and the political, through the testimonies of women sharing stories about their relationship to their bodies and femininity. The action goes to the inside of a wounded body and its faculty of resilience from a physical/emotional scar. BUOYANT (2023, 19 min, Vietnam) Toan Thanh Doan & Hoang-Phuc Nguyen-Le In this non-dialogue tale, taking place along the coast of Vietnam, a mermaid is rescued from the fish market by a fisherman. As the hero carries her back to the ocean, they are joined by two seahorses. Upon her wake at the beach, the mermaid performs a sensual dance. But her joy is cut short: the waves have other plans. URBAN GENESIS (2023, 18 min, France/Vietnam) Fu Le Phuong is released from prison and returns to her home province. She finds Khang, her childhood sweetheart, but no longer recognizes her village. The elders have left, the factories have closed, and Khang has to go to Saigon where he has found a new job. In the past 5 years, all the brickyards in Dong Thap province have closed, and Saigon is conjured up bristling with countless skyscrapers. URBAN GENESIS questions the place left to love when time passes faster than the clouds. >>> Total length: 1 hr 7 min

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the world’s foremost all-male comic ballet company, brings its internationally beloved troupe of dancers to the Arsht Center as part of its landmark 50th anniversary season, featuring gems from across the company’s groundbreaking repertoire. Founded in New York in 1974, the company, affectionately known as the Trocks, has grown from its roots in late-late shows in off-off-Broadway lofts to a global touring sensation, performing from Tokyo to Toronto. The company dances en travesti with razor-sharp wit and breathtaking pointe work, performing polished parodies of works that span the classical ballet canon. Revered by ballet aficionados as well as by those who don’t know a plié from a jeté, the Trocks are “a guaranteed hoot for people who know nothing of ballet and an absolute must for those who think they know the originals” (Sydney Star Observer).

The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine presents Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a charming story for all ages with the beautiful grandeur of classical ballet and the promise of a happily ever after.

CCBM presents "Giselle": A jewel of the 19th Century Romantic Ballet. A tale of innocence, love and betrayal.

Koubek Center presents the world premiere of TWO ISLANDS, a musical and dance performance by Afro-Cuban artists from Miami and Aboriginal artists from Australia. Two Islands is an international cultural exchange residency featuring Afro-Cuban artists from Miami and Aboriginal artists from Australia who will explore how these two different cultural traditions, in their ceremonies and rituals, speak to their ancestors through a musical and dance performance. Featuring Miami-based Afro-Cuban musician and educator Michael Gil, and NT Dance Company Artistic Director and Choreographer Gary Lang from Larrakia nation, elder Banula Marika from Yolngu and singer songwriter David Spry from Marranunggu Marrathiyel. Afro-Cuban musician and educator Michael Gil will be working with the First Nation artists along with Afro-Cuban dancer and choreographer Marisol Blanco from Sikan Afro-Cuban Dance Project and musicians Manuel Clua, René Pedroso, and Caridad Paisán, and dancer Suramy Suarez. This collaboration will fuse rhythms and instruments to create new sounds, stories, and choreography rarely explored.

The sold-out New York Times Best in Dance smash hit makes a triumphant return to the Miami City Ballet repertoire! Following its North American premiere in our 2021/2022 season, this “crisp and refreshingly clean” (The New York Times) sophisticated interpretation of Swan Lake, lovingly reconstructed by the renowned Alexei Ratmansky, will enchant audiences once again. Over fifty of MCB’s phenomenally talented dancers “lend flavor and picturesque richness” to Tchaikovsky’s splendid score, brought to life by MCB’s glorious live orchestra, creating a luminous production of a classic that is all its own.

The great works of Balanchine continue as a through-line for the season into the spring, paired with choreographers who were later influenced by his mastery of the form.