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Celebrating 25 years of artistic and academic excellence.
A Center of Excellence in the Visual and Performing Arts, at Miami Dade College - July 2012
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NWSA ALUMNI - LAST CALL TO PARTICIPATE!
JUST...TELL ME ABOUT IT
NWSA graduates, we're almost done with the layout of the New World School of the Art's 25th Anniversary Celebration Magazine! But you might still be able to participate in dímelo, [tell me about it] where in fifteen words or less you answer What did coming to NWSA mean to ME? Only a few more quotes remaining to complete the pages of this keepsake commemorative edition. Don't be left out - you're an integral part of this school's history and deserve to be featured in this issue. Along with your thoughts, please tell us the year you graduated and from which program and art division. Submit your quote directly to the NWSA Marketing Department by clicking on this link.
Marketing Department - dimelo
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Marissa Simons and Rosie Herrera
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NWSA ALUMNI DAZZLE IN
THE DONKEY SHOW
Opening last week at the Arsht Center's Ziff Ballet Opera House, The Donkey Show, created in 1999 by playwright Randy Weiner and director Diane Paulus (Tony Award-nominated for her Broadway revival of Hair), has enough home-grown talent to make all disco lovers feel right at home while dancing on the sidelines of Club Oberon. With more than a half dozen NWSA alumni joining the electrifying cast roster, the show once again validates the reputation that New World School of the Arts has garnered as a center of excellence in arts education and training during the last two and half decades.
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Shira Abergel and Luis Cuevas
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Among the NWSA cast members in this jaw-dropping Shakespearean disco mashup is Rosie Herrera, who masterfully choreographed the show to the tune of dozens of disco songs. Shira Abergel plays a dual role as the sly club owner, Mr. Oberon and Mia, the beloved of Sander. Helen, Dimitri's adored and Mia's best friend is played by Leah Verier-Dunn, who also takes on the role of one of the rude Vinnie twins. Luis Cuevas takes Puck, the mischievous fairy from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, to new heights as he delivers his pranks on golden roller skates. Eddie Spaghetti, the welcoming valet who hustles and shuffles the crowd to the beat of the 70's is played by Edson Jean, while Liony Garcia embodies Peaseblossom, one of the dancing fairies. Crystal Peattie, Evian, and Marissa Simons, Sweetness, are disco girls who boogie around the dance floor with hula hoops and bright smiles making sure guests get down and don't stop till they get enough.
Through August 12
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Ziff Ballet Opera House
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Liony Garcia and Edson Jean
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 EXQUISITE CONSEQUENCE BRINGS THE GALLERY TO LIFE
Although most schools are asleep for the summer, the New World Gallery is very much awake and bustling with activity to bring Exquisite Consequence to life. The exhibition, which features the works of 16 NWSA faculty members, is based on the exquisite corpse idea - a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. The NWSA gallery space has been subdivided into 16 separate art spaces and each area has been assigned to a participating artist. Each artist has four days in which to complete his or her work before handing the space over to the next artist in the sequence. The objective is to create one cohesive artwork based on the collective artistic execution of the group. The challenge, however, is that the artists will not have the opportunity to see their predecessor's work until they are ready to create their own section!
 Participating faculty in order:
Aramis O'Reilly, Tom Wyroba, Tony Fernandez, Rosario Martinez-Cañas, Kathleen Hudspeth, Alisa Pitchenik-Charles, Lina Weiss, Yasmine Samimy, Carol Todaro, Maria Martinez-Cañas, Susan Banks, Annette M. Piskel, Fred Snitzer, and Carlos Gallostra.
In creative process now through July 25
On view September 7 - October 19
New World Gallery
25 NE 2 Street, downtown Miami
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 SHORT PLAY SOIREE PROMOTES SOCIAL ISSUES
Recent alumni and current students of NWSA have come together this summer to form Our Stage Theatre Company. Using their conservatory-style training and "the confidence they gained at New World School of the Arts" during their high school days, these young actors aim to promote awareness of social issues through theater while educating the community and demonstrating that theater "is an art form that holds no prejudices and welcomes creativity and endurance regardless of race, sex, or age." One of their first productions is the newly-created Short Play Soiree - a series of one-act plays that will be presented this month. All proceeds will be donated to Jackson Hospital's Art Cares program to further promote social awareness and community involvement within the arts. Actors include: Armando Santana, Brianna Hart, Crystal Ferreiro, David Zaldivar, Jamie Bernard, Julio Maxel, Krystal Ortiz, Maite Christi Francois, and Nile Harris.
July 23; 7:00 PM
GableStage Theater
1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables
General admission is $10
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 AN EVENING OF POETRY WITH NWSA'S DAVID KWIAT David Kwiat, NWSA theater professor, will be sharing his original poetry during an evening of reading from his book A Traveler in Residence. David is the recipient of an Endowed Teaching Chair and his many performances in South Florida have earned him two Carbonell Awards; "Best Actor" and "Best Supporting Actor." David authored John Barrymore: Confessions of an Actor, which he has performed at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival, The King's Head Theatre in London and throughout the United States. David's poem "Hurricane Season: The Nature of War" was included in the 10th Edition of The Art of Being Human. David is currently completing his latest book of poetry, Terminal Hotel. July 31; 7:30 PM GableStage Theater 1200 Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables Free admission. General seating More about David Kwiat |
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 GRACING THE STAGE IN PUERTO RICO
Eight NWSA dancers, accompanied by the dean of dance, Mary Lisa Burns, traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico, this summer at the invitation of the DRAMA DANZA Semana Internacional del Baile festival. The invitation and funding for the trip were provided by the Puerto Rico Institute of Culture, which along with DRAMA DANZA Directors Waldo Gonzalez and Javier Lugo organized this 2012 International Dance Week. NWSA students performed at San Juan's Centro de Bellas Artes, as part of the festival which features cultural exchange through dance. The dancers performed a dynamic new multimedia work created by guest choreographer Darshan Singh Bhuller entitled Mapping #1, as well as an engaging solo by NWSA alumna, Andrea Ollarvide, entitled Flowers on the Wall, with music by the Statler Brothers. In addition, Dean Burns conducted a Master Class in Cunningham Technique for Festival participants. Performing dancers included: Andrea Ollarvide, Annellyse Munroe, Jasmine Howell, Jessie Kelly, Johan Rivera, Melanie Martel, Ricardo Dume, and Stephanie Fuentes.
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SUMMER FELLOWSHIP WITH MERCE CUNNINGHAM
Two recent NWSA Dance alumni - Andrea Ollarvide and Courtney Horton were awarded Summer Fellowships by the Merce Cunningham Trust to study Cunningham Technique and Repertory this summer in New York City. Robert Swinston, former Assistant to the Choreographer and a Trustee of the MC Trust, taught master classes at NWSA in February at the invitation of Dean of Dance, Mary Lisa Burns, and offered these tuition-free scholarships t o these NWSA students. Robert Swinston and other distinguished former members of the Merce Cunningham Company will teach these historic reconstructions of Cunningham's work at the Trust's new location in the New York City Center Studios.
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 THANK YOU, NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS SUPPORTERS
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THREE GREAT PARTNERS. ONE GREAT CONSERVATORY
New World School of the Arts was created by the Florida Legislature as a Center of Excellence in the visual and the performing arts. An educational partnership of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami Dade College and the University of Florida.
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Written, edited and produced by the NWSA Marketing and Communications Department |
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Maria M. Flores Director of Marketing and Communications mflores1@mdc.edu
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