14 Wednesday Oct 2015
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Cuban dancer José Manuel Carreño, artistic director of the Silicon Valley Ballet, has spoken of his dream of taking the company to Cuba. For now, he is bringing Cuba to San José.
On Oct. 16-18, the Silicon Valley Ballet will be performing the classic “Giselle” as choreographed by iconic Cuban dancer and choreographer Alicia Alonso. It is the first time that what is widely considered Alonso’s masterpiece will be performed in the United States.
14 Wednesday Oct 2015
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The first floor gallery at the headquarters of the National YoungArts Foundation in Miami suggested an archeological site Thursday. There were mounds of seemingly freshly unearthed artifacts, ghostly white chalk replicas of objects that, not that long ago, were the symbols of modernity: Walkmans, Polaroid cameras, BlackBerrys, boom boxes, the bodies of Fender Stratocaster guitars and video cameras. This was the future then. Now visitors use pieces of that past-turned-chalk to write on the black walls about the next future. It’s now there, in words and drawings, some already blurred, some already covered by other writing.
25 Friday Sep 2015
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It was only fitting that a reading by author Salman Rushdie of his latest book, “Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights,” a novel whose central character is a genie named Lightning Princess, was preceded by a sudden South Florida tropical storm that included pouring rain, thunder and, of course, lightning. The book in hand, why stop magic realism at the page’s edge?
Jazz With an Accent 