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February 16, 2007 |
Issue # 33 |
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Celebration of Choreographer Merce Cunningham
Sets Miami
in Motion
Performances by Dance Now, ABT, Savion Glover and
Miami Contemporary Dance on the Horizon
By Mary Damiano
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The Merce Cunningham Dance Company |
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The artistry of Merce Cunningham,
recognized by many as America’s greatest living choreographer, will be
celebrated with “Merce in Miami”, a city-wide festival which showcase the life
and work of this legendary artist.
The two-week festival will feature
the Miami debut of New York’s Merce
Cunningham Dance Company at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts.
One of the highlights of
Merce in Miami will
be a rare public interview with Cunningham, who will turn 88 in April. There
will also be a music festival featuring the work of Cunningham’s
collaborators, including a live performance by
Sigur Rós. Many of South Florida’s arts
organizations are teaming up to make Merce in Miami an unforgettable event, with
workshops, lectures, and other creative collaborations with
Museum of Contemporary Art, New World
School of the Arts, Florida Dance Association, Miami Dade College, South Florida
Composers Alliance, and the interdisciplinary Sounds Arts Workshop (iSAW) -
producer of the Subtropics Experimental Music and Sound Arts Festival. |
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Taking the Cultural Landscape to the Next
Level
Miami Beach City Commission to Vote on New World
Symphony Expansion
By Mary Damiano, Anthony Colon and Henry Perez
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New World Symphony Artistic
Director Michael Tilson Thomas and Miami Beach City Commissioner Saul Gross, at
the February 12 commission meeting Photo: Henry Perez |
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The Miami Beach Board of City Commissioners met Monday,
February 12, to discuss the proposed New World Symphony Expansion Project, which
will include a unique, community-oriented building designed by renowned
architect Frank Gehry, and would literally change the way New World Symphony is
viewed by the public.
This 106,350 square foot facility will feature an
innovative see-through architectural design and a flexible, open-access
configuration of the rehearsal and the performance space that will create new
ways of engaging audiences and the local community. |
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