Dance

Out In The Tropics is a yearly international performing arts series featuring daring and innovative artists that address issues of Gender Politics, Sexuality, and LGBTQIA+ identity. In an empty locker room, two men play with movement, an analogue radio and tiny shorts. In “Un Poyo Rojo,” athletic bodies of Luciano Rosso and Alfonso Barón move fluently from wrestling to dance, acrobatics to physical comedy in an irresistible distortion of the expectations of manhood. A funny, raw, playful hour interspersed with competitiveness and camaraderie, as well as seduction and sabotage, showcases the best Argentinian contemporary dance.

Centro Cultrual Español & Miami-Dade County Auditorium present FlamenGO 2024 with Paula Rodriguez Flamenco Company. The dancer will perform for the first time in Miami with her show El latir del mantón. "El latir del Mantón" is a show where singing, guitar, and percussion accompany the dancer on a sensory journey that only flamenco can create, to turn this show into an hour of magic and genuinely Spanish art. The dancer who won the first prize in the modality of “Desplante” in the International Flamenco Festival of Cante de las Minas is accompanied on Stage by the outstanding flamenco singer José del Calli, also winner in 2022 of the first prize of “Seguirillas” in the prestigious festival.

Weather: Cool and clear. brigid baker wholeproject presents "Cloud10," a sequel tribute to those beings whose soul work leaks light - no matter what - illuminating the way. This performance features dancers Isaiah Gonzalez, Amy Trieger, and Meredith Barton. Sound and video projection by Justin Trieger, lighting by Quanikqua Bryant, and music by Simeon ten Holt and Hania Rani

Cuadro Flamenco will delight with pure Flamenco music and dance, in a range of rhythms and styles that will take you through dramatic, soulful, joyous, sensual and passionate moods with powerful vocals, electrifying footwork, and all of the grace and beauty that has made Flamenco an inspiration to writers, poets musicians, composers, choreographers, painters and sculptors for centuries. The excitement and power that is authentic Flamenco will have the audience also screaming “ole” and clapping with the rhythms.

Mixed bill performance of Swan Lake Act II and Paquita Suite featuring young, up-and-coming dancers, training at Ballet Etudes. Includes a pre-show performance by our youth Flamenco and Hip-Hop Classes.

For 45 years, Ballet Nacional de España (BNE) has been bringing the history of Spanish dance to life while remaining true to the nation’s spirit of innovation and artistry. The company’s repertoire includes classic 20th century works as well as bold new choreographies such as Invocación, a program created by BNE director Rubén Olmo that salutes past masters of the castanet-driven style known as Escuela Bolera. The company will perform Invocación and several other original works that combine flamenco, ballet and stylized dance during its Flamenco Festival appearance. This year’s festival celebrates the legacy of Paco de Lucia.

In an emotional tribute to the poet Federico García Lorca, director Miguel Sahid presents a version of "La Casa de Bernarda Alba". While staying faithful to the original text, Sahid incorporates flamenco elements of cante and cajón as part of the setting to complement the powerful and passionate performances of a group of international actors. "The House of Bernarda Alba" invites you to explore the fight for freedom and expression in a rigid society. Join us for this unique theatrical experience, produced by Sociedad Actoral Hispanoamericana, where tradition meets innovation in an exciting setting. Take advantage of this opportunity to witness one of the most moving works of Spanish literature.

Karen Peterson and Dancers presents the Fifth Edition of the Forward Motion Dance Festival with dance performances played live by The Spirit of the Goodwill Band Musicians and Singers as well as guest choreographers and dancers, Julie Crothers from San Francisco, Pawel Karpinski from Poland, guest choreographer Mark Travis from Atlanta as well as home grown, Karen Peterson and Dancers. This performance provides the best work of national and international dancers who create and perform under the umbrella of physically integrated dance.

Bird Woman is a multimedia performance that fuses dance, film, original music and sounds installation. It is based on and inspired by stories of Latina immigrant women. The piece explores the human condition and translates their stories into gestures, emotions, and movements, creating a new language to express these women's thoughts, desires, emotions and hopes.

Duets, Reimagined ... Duets choreographed by Pioneer Winter between 2012-2022 are reinvestigated and interwoven to collide past and present. Unconventional, intimate, and raw, these dances explore love in its many forms: why we love, how we love, what love feels like, and how we recall it in its absence.