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April 13, 2007 |
Issue # 37 |
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Miami Beach Festival Celebrates Dance
Momentum Dance Company Hosts Performances and
Classes
By Jennifer Bartman
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The Momentum Dance Company |
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The fourth annual Miami Beach Dance Festival will present a variety of
contemporary dance performances, as well as lectures, master classes, film
viewings and a salsa night, April 12 to 22. Festival-goers can attend events at
the Jackie Gleason Theater, Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Byron Carlyle Theater,
and Miami Beach Cinematheque during these 10 spectacular days of dance.
According to Festival Director Delma Isles, the goal of the festival is to
“engage people from diverse ethnic, cultural, and age groups and educational
levels, and with a dynamic menu of dance experiences that are fun, thoughtful,
innovative and provocative. We want our community to grow to love dance as an
art form.” |
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Shakespeare Gets Naked
For South Florida’s New Theatre Company, the
Classic Play’s the Thing
By Andie Arthur
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Married actors Antonio and
Katherine Amadeo, two of the founders of the Naked Stage theatre company, who
play star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet in the company’s first production |
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Everyone knows the story of Romeo and Juliet – two
star-crossed lovers who take their lives. The goal of the Naked Stage, South
Florida’s newest theatre company, is to surprise you into thinking you’re seeing
the show for the first time.
It’s a very ambitious goal for a likewise ambitious theatre
company.
“The Naked Stage
wants to do classical pieces in a way that the South Florida theatre company may
not be accustomed to seeing them, with a fresh voice that presents the work in a
new yet totally valid way,” says Antonio Amadeo, producing
artistic director of Naked Stage.
By Any Other
Name…Romeo and Juliet, the title of
this adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic, appears to fit this ambition. However,
Amadeo, who adapted the script and plays Romeo, was elusive on exactly how this
version differs from Shakespeare’s. |
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