Wonder Forward With Us toward a world gone FABULOUS
Miami Light Project & Adele Myers and Dancers invite you to join us for lunchtime at The Light Box Studio at MTC, an intimate community conversation and FREE lunch
Adele Myers and Dancers is a company in residence at Miami Light Project. The company is developing a new dance theater work, a world gone FABULOUS envisioned as a quest for a better future, on and off the stage. Theater Artist and collaborating Dramaturg for the project, Alejandro Rodriguez, will facilitate a dynamic discussion with members of our local arts community about how we dream into a more desirable future, through our artistry and in our daily lives.
Adele Myers and Dancers, Inc. (AMD) is a Miami based not-for-profit dance theater company committed to advancing and amplifying female dance artists through process, performance, and community engagement. For over a decade, AMD has been presented throughout the U.S. and hailed for their signature blend of robust physicality and personal theatricality performed by dynamite athletes of the heart.
Since 2010, the company has received development and touring support for several multi-disciplinary evening-length projects from notable funding organizations including New England Foundation of the Arts for Theater in the Head 2010; National Dance Project Production Grant for Einstein’s Happiest Thought in 2013; the National Performance Network for The Dancing Room in 2015. Since relocating its home base from the northeast to Miami in 2015, AMD received commissions for new work from the Miami Light Project/Here & Now in 2018 for Girls!Girls!Girls! and MDC Live Arts/LALA in 2019 for The Stage Show.
From 2020-2022 AMD was a commissioned company-in-residence at the South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center (SMDCAC) where the company developed an evening-length dance theater work, T.W.I.S.T with additional support from a 2021 National Dance Project Production grant and from The Yard who is also a co-commissioning partner. With support from the NCC Akron Satellite Residency program, and in partnership with SMDCAC, AMD hosted TWISTalks, a series of facilitated virtual gatherings of women nationwide who share, listen, laugh and twist against disempowerment.
In partnership with the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, in 2021 AMD launched Miami Dancemakers, an annual six-month community engagement initiative to support Miami’s next generation of female creative visionaries in dance by partnering them with a consortium of local performing arts organizations who are Creative Development Partners. The 2022 Creative Development Partners include: The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Armour Dance Theater, Miami Light Project, Live Arts Miami, and South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center, and YoungArts.
In 2022, the company unveiled the inaugural AMD Advisory Council made up of a nationwide inspiring cross-sector community of female leaders and entrepreneurs to help usher in the visionary expansion of AMD Inc. Stay tuned!
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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.