Some of South Florida’s leading dance companies return to the festival this year. They include Miami City Ballet, Dance NOW!
Since its inception six years ago, Men Who Dance Festival set out to break down stereotypes and prejudices that have long hindered the development of male dance. “Decades ago, when I was growing up ...
“There’s an aversion to male beauty in this country. We have this idea that beauty has to be defined as feminine,” says Ariel Rose, Miami City Ballet soloist and choreographer. Rose is a founding ...
It was November 2020 and South Florida arts venues were two months into the state's 'Phase 3' — the COVID-19 pandemic reopening plan. Although large auditoriums were allowed to operate at full ...
More than forty years ago, dancer Richard Jessup traveled to Seattle for a show, fully intending to leave once the run was over. “I wasn’t planning to stay,” he says, “but other theater and dance ...
In 2020, Rafi Maldonado-Lopez, artistic director of the “Men Who Dance” all-male dance festival and founder of the Inter-American Choreographic Institute, introduced the inaugural program as a bold ...
It’s no easy feat to keep a dance festival going year after year, let alone decade after decade. Men in Dance, founded in Seattle 30 years ago, deserves a well-earned cheer, celebrating the ...