Dancing Against the Tide: World Premiere of Dance NOW! Miami's "Blue Penckl"
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Date & Time Fri 02/28/2025 8:00
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Miami Theater Center
Miami Shores, FL 33138
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Phone Number (305) 751-9550
Challenging political and social moments often lead to creative artistic responses. With the world premiere of "Blue Pencil" as part of Dance NOW! Miami’s (DNM) Program II, one of Florida’s leading contemporary ensembles tackles the issues of censorship and repression head-on. Created in collaboration with Portugal’s Dança em Diálogos, the politically charged ballet is based on the story of Portugal’s official “Blue Pencil” censorship under the Portuguese Salazar dictatorship from 1933 to 1974. The original work, choreographed by DNM Co-Artistic Directors Diego Salterini and Hannah Baumgarten, along with Dança em Diálogos’ Artistic Director Solange Melo, will use this historical story to highlight the power of the arts to resist illegitimate authority.
As part of the company’s ongoing 25th anniversary celebration, the Program II evening will also include audience Dance NOW repertory favorites "Court Dance," Baumgarten’s Machiavellian “political tribal dance,” and Salterini’s "Drawing Circles," a tribute to MiMo architecture.
