Dance

Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Sara Baras returns to the Arsht Center with her newest show, Alma, as the centerpiece of Flamenco Festival Miami. In Alma, flamenco embraces the bolero, and the bolero is embraced by flamenco. Baras pays respect to flamenco’s techniques while fusing it with her own modern touch, brilliant footwork and captivating stage presence. With lavish costumes and live music performed onstage, Alma promises to be an exhilarating evening.

The Michael-Ann Russell Jewish Community Center proudly presents the 13th Annual international Folk Dance Festival - Dancing With The World. Come and enjoy a variety of folkdance troupes from across South Florida as they take the stage in a friendly competition. The idea of this competition is to showcase difference local folk dance troupers in order to highlight their individual cultural identities while promoting the union between different "small-communities" throughout South Florida.

Continuing with the 25th Anniversary Celebration, Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida is bringing back the fun and beloved colorful ballet Chipollino, under the artistic direction of Ballet Master, Choreographer, and Director Vladimir Issaev. Originally based on a fairy tale by Italian author Gianni Rodari, Chipollino is a two-act story ballet choreographed to the music of Karen Khachaturian, an acclaimed 20th-century century Russian composer. The story tells the adventures of a group of fruits and vegetables living in The Town of Limonia, under the reign of Prince Lemon. When Prince Lemon refrains Mrs. Pumpkin and her children to build a house and announces new laws imposing taxes to the sun, the air and the rain, Chipollino reacts by stomping on the foot of Prince Lemon and the whole town gets involved in a new quest. This ballet not only entertains everyone in the audience with its different elements, but it also presents sort of a political statement. All the wonderful personalities of this story, which include Ms. Cherry, Tomato Police, Lettuces, Radishes, Apples, Strawberries, and Flowers, show off their amazing classical ballet skills in this demanding and fun choreography. This is what makes the audience want to return to see this production every time the company brings it back.

Ballet Flamenco La Rosa (BFLR), Miami’s most stellar flamenco company for the last 37 years, announces the world premiere of cutting-edge new work at the Koubek Center on Saturday, March 4, 2023, at 8 PM and Sunday, March 5 at 3 PM. Called “one of our cultural treasures” by the Miami Herald, this home-grown and world class company offers the very best flamenco music and dance to our community and beyond. With its breathtaking footwork, magnificent music, and passionate energy, Flamenco is a perfect language to tell this iconic story. With its wide range of rhythms, styles and emotions, Flamenco provides a magnificent interpretation of this intense and powerful work.

The Michael Ann Russell Jewish Community Center proudly presents LEGACY, a tribute to the Elite Jazz Dance Team. Enjoy a night filled with pop music, beautiful costumes and energetic dancing as the PDC by Bamachol Jazz Teams take the stage for this unforgettable night.

Bird Woman is a multimedia performance by Carla Forte that fuses dance, film, original music and sound installation. It is based on and inspired by stories of Latina women immigrants. 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.

A youth-focused classical ballet production featuring time-honored favorites such as Coppelia and Diana & Acteon, with a pre-show featuring the modern genres of Lyrical, Flamenco & Hip-Hop performed by Ballet Etudes students!

Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami (CCBM) presents their exciting premier of “Spanish Classical Night” in collaboration with Sanctuary of the Arts Choreographic Ensemble. Tracing the roots of our Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami, “Spanish Classical Night” features the best of the classical Spanish inspired repertoire emphasizing the relationship between classical ballet and traditional Spanish dance that has been a powerful influence on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ballet repertoire. The program features: “Paquita”, staged for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg in 1881, “Esmeralda” pas de six, inspired by the novel Notre-Dame de Paris, the world famous “Don Quixote” pas de deux, based on the famous Miguel de Cervantes novel, and a CCBM World Premiere of “La Casa de Bernarda Alba” (The House of Bernarda Alba) that honors the renowned Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca with this original ballet inspired by the legacy of his literary work.