The Palm Beach County performance season is just around the corner even though the oppressive heat and humidity of summer is still with us. When the weather is cool, Palm Beach comes alive with things to do and places to go and the season recommences with the joy of the performing arts, which are such an important part of the culture here. However, things have changed. … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2024-25: A reduced, but still-vibrant season of dance
Is this the fallout year for the performing arts? It is alarming to see the sparse offerings for the 2024-25 dance season, especially after the enormous struggle it was for the arts to survive the hardships imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. I hope that this decline in performances is not a trend that will persist. A supreme effort must be made by all to get up off that … [Read more...]
2023-24 Season in Dance: A rich and varied lineup on tap
The lineup for the upcoming season of dance in Palm Beach County is looking full and varied. Sprinkled throughout our regular favorite dance events, there will be some not-to-be-missed repeats of last season’s highlights as well as some exciting performances that are here for only one night. Miami City Ballet Miami City Ballet begins the season early, performing the first … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2022-23: The season in dance
This past summer was particularly hot and grueling everywhere, but the gradually arriving change in the weather will also usher in a very cool South Florida season of dance. Here are the details: Miami City Ballet: The ballet company has big plans for its 2022/23 season of dance. Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez, who has been leading the organization for the past 10 seasons, … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2021-22: The season in dance
By Dale King South Florida dancers of every ilk — sidelined for more than a year by a show-stopping coronavirus pandemic — have been polishing their skills, dance shoes and ballet slippers, anticipating a mass return of live performances to stages from Miami to Jupiter in the very near future. Miami City Ballet (MCB) has confidently announced its 2021-22 “Sunshine in … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2020-21: COVID stifles dance, but live shows set for 2021
By Dale King Performance stages throughout South Florida that would normally host all sorts of dance programs this time of year are silent, dark and vacant. Producers have dismissed dancers, sent staff home and barred patrons from entry as COVID-19 has rudely slammed the door on art forms of all genres. While most dance companies have replaced live shows with online … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2019-20: ‘Firebird,’ new local works among dance season highlights
From dancing gauchos to stately ballerinas and innovative tap dancers to body-bending modern movement-makers, South Florida’s 2019-2020 dance season takes off in full swing by early October. With holiday staples such as The Nutcracker, venerated classics such as The Firebird and new programming including Puremovement American Street Dance Theatre in venues from Miami to West … [Read more...]
Season Preview 2018-19: Dance
Devotees of dance around South Florida have a satisfying season ahead, not just with regular performances by Miami City Ballet and visits to the Duncan Theatre and Kravis Center by some of the world’s best-known troupes, but also in the innovation and promise on view in the work of the area’s local companies and schools. Miami City Ballet mounts its 33rd season, as always, … [Read more...]
Boca Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ aims high, succeeds
As ballets go, The Nutcracker is something like a variety show at Alexander III’s House of Vaudeville: It has very little story but an endlessly diverting lineup of different kinds of dance, most notably in the second act. Which surely helps account for the ballet’s popularity in the United States, beginning in the World War II years, but then taking off after George … [Read more...]
Arts Preview 2017-18: The season in dance
Devotees of dance this season can sample Miami City Ballet’s continued artistic honing by Artistic Director Lourdes Lopez, the ongoing successful dance programming at the Duncan Theatre or the breakthrough PEAK presentations at the Kravis Center, as well as decide to experience the continuity and strength in the local dance scene. Amid this strong lineup, this season it … [Read more...]