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International Ballet Festival Preview: Miami Herald

September, 2010

Miami Herald: The International Ballet Festival of Miami

Dance companies from all over the world perform in Miami for the next 10 days.  

By Jordan Levin 9/2/2010

As dancers from across Europe, Latin America and the United States converge over the next 10 days for the 15th International Ballet Festival of Miami, director Pedro Pablo Peña is feeling simultaneously triumphant and frustrated. Triumphant because the festival continues to draw enthusiastic audiences and has survived despite the economic downturn and the ongoing challenge of raising money for the arts in South Florida. Frustrated because, even after years of success, finding financial and political support remains difficult.

This year's festival will present dancers from 15 countries in classical and contemporary performances as well as a show by teenage medalists from various ballet competitions.

``In the case of contemporary dance,'' he says, ``I look for new choreography, new companies that haven't been seen here.''

The contemporary program at the Colony Theater seems especially promising, with Italy's Balleto Teatro di Torino on Saturday and, on Sunday, Vancouver-based Move: The Company, headed by up-and-coming choreographer Josh Beamish; the New York company Evidence, headed by Ronald K. Brown, a favored choreographer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and The State of Hellectrick Danse Theater, a new collective of Miami dance and performance artists.