| HERE & NOW: 2009 |
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March 5-8, 2009, 7:30pmAdrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Carnival Studio Theater, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard $20.00 Florida International Magazine says "Miami Light Project has been grooming future stars for years" and this year is no different as we continue our ground-breaking commissioning/presenting partnership with the Arsht Center. Here & Now yields an annual bounty of innovative, eye-opening new works; up-close-and-personal world premieres in the Studio Theater featuring some of Miami's most promising emerging artists. BUY TICKETS HERE!! |
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| About the pieces... |
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Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaretby Rosie Herrera Choreographer Rosie Herrera recreates dream states through dance, theater, cabaret, opera and surrealism using water as a metaphor for the unconscious. Featuring a cast of 14 dancers, singers, bakers and drag queens and 10 birthday cakes that take you on a vivid journey through dreams and drowning. |
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Symbolby Alexey Puig Taran From aerial dance and video-art to music, words and improvisation, Guggenheim dance fellow Alexey Puig Taran's Symbol explores the boundaries of poetry where color, beauty, desire, and faith incorporate us into the cosmic order. Dancers fly, suspended from the ceiling as rain washes down on them in a vivid display of athletic grace. |
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| Meet the 2009 Here & Now Artists |
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Rosie Herrera is a graduate of New World School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and has danced with Freddick Bratcher and Co., Animate Objects Physical Theater and The People's Touring Project and is currently working with choreographers Bill Doolin, Octavio Campos for Camposition Hybrid Theater, Heather Maloney and is an improvisational performance artist with the perfomance ensemble Circ X as well as vocalist and puppeteer for Pablo Cano's production of The Blue Ribbon.
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Alexey Puig Taran was born in Santa Clara, Cuba and graduated in 1988 from the National Ballet School Havana & National Art Schoolin Havana and has choreographed and taught in the United States, Venezuela, Croatia, Colombia, Slovenia, Poland, Germany and Ecuador. In 2007 and 2008 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award in Dance, and in 1997 was awarded the Les Prix des VIes & Ves Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales de Seine - Saint - Denis in Paris, France and was nominated for the National Artist Award, Contemporary Dancer Mention, Caracas, Venezuela. |
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Miami Light Project's Here & Now program is one of the 31 inaugural grant recipients of the The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Arts Partnership Program.
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Help us match this $200,000 Knight Arts Partner grant! Click here to donate online. With your help, our programs will continue to grow!! |
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| This program is co-commissioned & co-presented with Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts |
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