Join Miami Light Project for an evening out of doors at New World Center’s Projection Wall at Soundscape Park.
Please join Miami Light Project for ScreenDance Miami Festival 2025! This evening out of doors featuring short film selections.
Program Order:
Beach Birds: A New Arrangement (2023, 21 min, Florida Premiere)
Merce Cunningham, staged by Patricia Lent and Rashaun Mitchell
A performance of one of Merce Cunningham’s iconic choreographic works filmed by Alex Munro. Originally created in 1991 for an indoor stage setting, this new adaptation of Beach Birds, commissioned and produced by Beach Sessions, was performed by 11 dancers last summer on the shoreline at Rockaway Beach, New York.
La Timidite des Cimes (2023, 19 min, US Premiere)
Loup-William Théberge
The Crown Shyness is a dance short film about a man’s introspective gaze at his artistic identity.
Mataperra (2023, 21 min, US Premiere)
Yelda del Carmen, Rachel Trudeau
Yelda embarks on a quest that drives her to achieve much more than her climbing dreams. She aspires to make a mark in history by becoming the first Cuban to conquer three legendary ascents.
Me and My Mother the Lumberjack (2024, 23 min, Florida Premiere)
Jenny Larsson and Charlotte Berglin
This documentary film explores the life and relationship between Britt-Marie and her daughter Jenny. The film highlights their unique lifestyles and differences while examining themes of femininity and independence. Despite their different lives, they share a deep connection to the forest, a place that offers both recreation and physical labor.
>>> Total length: 63 min
To request materials in accessible format and accommodation to attend an event, please contact Eventz Paul at 305.576.4350 or email us, at least five days in advance to initiate your request.
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We are accessible and assistive listening devices are available. To request materials in accessible format and accommodation to attend an event, please contact Eventz Paul at 305.576.4350 or email us, at least five days in advance to initiate your request.
Eventz Paul is currently the Technical Director and Productions Manager at Miami Light Project. He has been a part of this organization since 2011. He participated in Miami Light Project’s first class of the Technical Fellowship Program held at The Light Box. He joined this program hoping to improve his existing theater skills. He received training from experts in the industry that mentored and further his theater technical skills. Now, he has successfully used his professional knowledge and has had the opportunity to work with various arts organizations and venues throughout Miami including Miami Theater Center, National Young Arts Foundation, the Colony Theatre and many more. He has become an instructor and conducts audiovisual classes to incoming technical fellows.
Beth Boone has been the Artistic & Executive Director of Miami Light Project since 1998, developing critically acclaimed artistic programs that have asserted the organization as one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. These programs include: the establishment of Here & Now, South Florida’s most respected commission and presenting program for community-based artists; premiere presentations of internationally acclaimed; pioneering historic international cultural exchange with Cuba; and the creation of The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse, a multi-use performance and visual art space in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. She previously served as Associate Director of Development for Florida Grand Opera, Deputy Director for the Department of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, co-founded an Off Broadway theater company (New York Rep), and served for six years as a Program Associate in the Arts & Culture Program of the AT&T Foundation. She received a B.A. in Fine Arts from the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and a MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis University in Boston, MA.