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Performance
Series
June
20 - July 3, 2004
For tickets
to all performances call
in Miami-Dade
ortoll-free.
Photo
© Luis Castañeda
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DUENDE
BALLET ESPAÑOL (Miami)
Pasos y Sueños
“With her small, sculpted body and exquisitely
defined heel and castanet work, Mercedes is a mesmerizing
dancer.” Jordan Levin, The Miami Herald
Sunday, June 20, 8 PM
Byron Carlyle Theater, 500 71st Street, Miami Beach
Tickets: $20 general admission; student, senior and
FDA member discounts available. |
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26th Florida Dance Festival kicks off with the fiery passion
of Miami’s own Duende Ballet Español.
Under the artistic direction of Barcelona native Rosa Mercedes,
and featuring dancers from Spain, Mexico and the U.S., Duende
Ballet Español brings the enticing allure of Flamenco
and Spanish dance to the concert stage transporting the
audience deep into the soul of Spain and Latin culture.
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FLORIDA
DANCES
“… a grand diversity of dance.” (Orlando Sentinel)
Tuesday, June 22, 8 PM
New World Dance Theater, 25 NE 2nd Street, 8th Floor,
Downtown Miami
Tickets: $10 general admission; student, senior and FDA
member discounts available
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This recurring Festival series showcases a collection of
the past season’s memorable and exceptional works by dance
artists, companies and schools from throughout Florida.
Tonight’s program features works performed by South Florida’s
Harmonic Motion, students in the dance
programs of University of South Florida,
Florida State University, New World
School of the Arts and Baltimore’s Towson
State University, and the works of independent
artists Orazio Giurdanella (Miami),
Deborah Barnes (Orlando) and LaVonne
French (Gulf Breeze).
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COUNTDOWN
3…2…1…
Wednesday, June 23, 7 PM
New World Dance Theater, 25 NE 2nd Street, 8th Floor, Downtown
Miami
Admission free; donation appreciated |
This
new program is the Festival’s first full evening devoted
strictly to dance improvisation. Designed as an open, semi-unstructured
evening, improvisers are allowed up to 15-minutes to perform
their improvised dance. Live musicians are on hand to provide
improvised musical accompaniment, or the choreographers
may choose to perform in silence. Improvisations without
a defined ending are given a timed countdown to complete
their dance, hence the program’s title. Choreographers or
improvisers interested in participating may contact Dale
Andree, the program’s coordinator, at All
are welcome.
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OUT
OF ORDER
Thursday, June 24, 8 PM
PS 742, 1165 SW 6th Street, Little Havana
Tickets: $10 general admission; student, senior and FDA
member discounts available
Presented in partnership with Artemis Performance
Network and PS 742, Out of Order is a new
Festival initiative highlighting the “edgier” work of emerging
and established professional choreographers and performing
artists.
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Photo © Maria Anguera de Sojo |
JOHN
JASPERSE COMPANY (New York)
just two dancers (Florida premiere)
[Jhtmlerse
is] “A choreographer who combines formal purity and pungent
social commentary. John Jhtmlerse [is] one of the best of
the truly experimental artists.” Anna Kisselgoff, The
New York Times
Friday,
June 25, 8 PM and Saturday, June 26, 8
PM Byron
Carlyle Theater, 500 71st Street, Miami Beach Tickets: $20
general admission; student, senior and FDA member discounts
available.
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just
two dancers is a duet work
examining a dynamic and multi-directional sense of perception.
Performed on the stage and on platforms constructed throughout
the theater, Jhtmlerse and dancer Juliette Mapp challenge
audience member’s perceptions as the dance passes in front
of, above, behind and beside them. Through the simple device
of a small hand-mirror, each audience member is given the
power to manipulate his or her own perspective of the dance,
while at the same time being confronted with the image of
themselves or other audience members watching the dance.
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just
two dancers is a co-commissioning project by Florida Dance
Association in partnership with Dance Theater Workshop (New
York), Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Vermont) and
the National Performance Network Creation Fund. The Creation
Fund is sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
and Philip Morris Companies. For further information about
the NPN:
Florida Dance Association is a member of the National Performance
Network comprised of arts organizations located throughout
the United States. The NPN and this presentation of John
Jhtmlerse Company have been made possible with major funding
from The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). |
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