When master ballet choreographer George Balanchine unveiled Bugaku in 1962, audiences were stunned by what critics have called “the sexiest show in ballet.” Borrowing from ancient Japanese classical dance, the ballet enacts a marriage rite set to the music of famed pan-Asian composer Mayuzami. In other words, two dancers get…
The Color of Desire: Actors’ Playhouse trades subtlety for flash
Saturday night was “Virgins Get in Free” night for Area Stage’s production of My First Time, a play adapted from the true-life virginity-losing stories that have been submitted to myfirsttime.com since the ’90s. Being the intrepid reporters that we are, we decided to test the veracity of this claim. We…
Sarah ColonnaSarah Colonna was an Arkansas-bred, Los Angeles-based standup veteran of nine years when she started appearing on the Chelsea Lately roundtable. She parlayed the roundtable into a full time writing gig on the show. Colonna is also a TV staple, having appeared on The United States of Tara, Monk…
RequiemRecently, the Wolfson Moving Image Archives, an expansive collection of TV shows, movies, and other moving images that showcase the evolution of South Florida’s communities, announced that they would be adding the entire video collection of Momentum Dance Company to their files. Why Momentum Dance Company? Because they are the oldest…
Melanie Barkely Shira Abergel talks about her first time.Much like sex, the internet is a microcosm of the spectrum of human emotion. In a medium where sharing is the rule, some seek unity and connection while others nurture lonely wounds in a vacuous space of anonymity. Back in the pre-blogging…
Josh WolfComedian Josh Wolf first got onstage as a smart-ass sixteen year old. He takes the Fillmore stage this Friday for the Comedians of Chelsea Lately tour alongside Sarah Colonna, Brad Wollack, and Loni Love. Wolf will go up as someone who has had TV sitcom development deals, a web-series,…
Eileen SuarezAubrey Shavonn and Clint Hooper star in Jack Goes Boating.Maybe it’s been years since you kicked back and smoked a bowl while jamming to Bob Marley. Or maybe it was yesterday. Either way, you’re not likely to forget the temporary reprieve it offers between the loud thumbing of everyday…
Alberto RomeuNilo Cruz’s The Color of Desire.There’s an unwritten rule that says only plays that have had a run in New York are awarded the Pulitzer Prize. So when word hit that a playwright from Little Havana with a story about Cuban cigar rollers from the tiny New Theatre in…
We here at Cultist are stoked about the cultural uprising taking place in southwest Miami. Not only does it mean that we save wear and tear on our automobiles, but we can continue to stay away from Dolphin Mall. We hate Dolphin Mall.One of the places responsible for bringing culture…
This October is more than just an opportunity to drink yourself silly and wear lederhosen. Thanks to the folks at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music, you can get drunk, wear lederhosen, and attend 20 events in a four-week period. OK, you don’t have to attend all 20….but…
Singers and dancers from the Danmar Academy of Performing Arts (DAPA) in Texas will be at the Gusman Center of the Performing Arts this Saturday and Sunday to perform America Latina: A Mosaic of Cultural Expression. The show could easily be subtitled Miami the Musical. Billed as “a 90-minute show…
Does the banality of your work week and the dearth of spontaneity in your life ever have you questioning the existence of free will? Suddenly you look around and think you might be but a dancing marionette, controlled by some greater power that you can’t quite place your finger on–the…
Is it too soon for a Greg Giraldo joke? Sure he’s only been dead for a day, and accidental drug overdoses are nothing to laugh about–they’re a real downer– but Giraldo was a comedian, a damn good one. Rather than hanging our head down low and crying about the passing…
How can you go wrong with a musical that promises to tell you the story of all the “dreamers, scoundrels, bigots, saints, politicians and millionaires” who have made Miami Beach what it is today? Unlike the novels Diary of a South Beach Party Girl or South Beach: The Novel, which…
How did Cinco de Mayo, a historical date relevant to only one small town in Mexico, get confused with the country’s real independence day? Perhaps because Dieciseis de Septiembre didn’t fit as easily on a beer label. It’s all the more reason to catch the Miami debut of Tania Pérez-Salas…
Us saguesera kids usually get left out of all the cool, hip cultural events going on in Miami due to our geographical disability (not living on the East Side). Lucky for us, with the Bird Road Arts District making a comeback and events like the Hell Yeah Open Mic, it…
Oprah recently made a plea to Jay-Z to stop using the N-word. Jigga Man refused, and comedian Eddie Griffin has the rapper’s back. When it comes to the comic’s very R-rated comedy, you can’t help but notice his love for the term. But when someone is making you laugh that…
ArtSpoken’s Yoshvani Medina.When you think about Latin theater in Miami, productions tailored to your parents and abuelitos probably come to mind. Yoshvani Medina, the director of Artspoken, wants to change that. Medina has dared to fully invest himself in establishing a performing arts center in the middle of Little Havana,…
Flickr CC CowbiteSpin the bottle? Or ghost story time?Remember the nights when you would sit around a campfire with your friends, holding a flashlight under your chin and tell ghost stories? You don’t? True, we don’t usually come across many marshmallow-roasting opportunities in Miami. Well, not to worry. The Naked…
There’s nothing quite as unsettling as a pair of nuts in a pink thong. Well, nothing except two pairs of nuts in two pink thongs.Miami comedy duo, A Pair of Nuts, bravely showed America their man parts while appearing on VH1’s Money Hungry. The sketch duo — Yamil Piedra and…
Photo by Dan Forer via gusmancenter.orgGusman’s starry-skied, gilded interior.The old lady needs some help.The historic Gusman Center for the Performing Arts is in a real bind. And it’s up to the City of Miami (gasp!) to get it out of the fix. Or maybe it’s the City of Miami that…
