A World of Movement

The gorgeous visual and movement carnival of the annual ScreenDance Miami festival is much more than an annual delight for Miami. The festival gives us a glimpse into creative minds, new ideas, and emerging trends throughout the dance world, a breathtaking artistic spectrum we’d never get to see simply via the limited number of live performances in South Florida.
Acclaimed Dance Artist Shamel Pitts Brings the Heat in Touch of RED

Dance artist Shamel Pitts usually takes about nine months to make a piece. But Touch of RED, Pitts’ duet with Tushrik Fredericks, was birthed in a two-year-long, pandemic-bred incubation that fostered a particularly intense collaboration. Forged in the sweaty heat of physical closeness, in the instantaneous reaction of souls laid bare in a fraught arena illuminated by scarlet light, Touch of RED may be Shamel’s most personal work.
Teo Castellanos: F.Punk Junkies

I grew up with 70’s soul, funk, salsa, then came hiphop and punk, then post-punk and new wave. That’s always been me. Then I got interested in Afro-Futurism and Afro-punk. I like the reclaiming of punk music by people of color, specifically Black people. We tend to forget rock music comes from Black culture. That’s why Bad Brains and Fishbone are key – and because I love them.
ScreenDance Miami Redux – That’s So Miami

The annual Screendance Miami festival shows films from around the world. But this year, we’re reprising films by Miami artists at the North Beach Bandshell, because the most compelling entries are from our own backyard.
Randolph Ward: Unconventional

Retired ballet dancer Randolph Ward celebrates outsider power in his Here & Now piece Unconventional; the transgender, vogue, and drag artists who not only re-define their sexuality and gender, but use that reinvention as a source of creativity and community. Who say ‘you don’t see how I shine?’ I’m gonna make a world that does.’
Alejandro Rodriguez: In the Brackish Water

Alejandro Rodriguez planned to be an actor. But when the Miami-born son of Cuban exiles saw Teo Castellanos’ NE Second Avenue, the game-changing solo theater piece Castellanos originated for Here & Now in 2002, it sparked a different creative ambition.
Symone Titania Major: Home

Until now, Symone Titania Major has focused on showcasing the richness of Miami-Dade’s Black community.
Cecilia Benitez & Stephanie Perez: Manteca

Cecilia Benitez and Stephanie Perez are cultural twins. Both 24, Miami-born daughters of Cuban exiles raised in ‘Wescheser,’ the heart of suburban exilio. Both dance graduates of New World School of the Arts – where they became close – and Pittsburgh’s Point Park College. Where they discovered the Miami conundrum of living on the multiple hyphens of being Cuban-Latina-American.
Jenna Balfe: Organesis

Artist/activist/nature lover Jenna Balfe has always found inspiration and rejuvenation in the abundant landscape of her native Miami.
Building a Miami Beach Fantasy – Liony Garcia’s Corporeal Decorum

In the years that choreographer Liony Garcia has worked on Corporeal Decorum, this layered, shape-shifting dance and visual evocation of South Beach’s Art Deco landscape has morphed multiple times.