  NWSA VIDEO SUMS UP 2012-2013
A year filled with news and notes, accomplishments and accolades, and exhibitions and performances, 2012-2013 was indeed another remarkable year for New World School of the Arts. We are happy to showcase the best of our best in this action-packed, uplifting compilation, and hope you will proudly share it with your friends and family. Replete with inspiring student and faculty interviews, vignettes of most of performances and exhibitions and highlights of our awards and scholars, this synopsis is the perfect keepsake for an outstanding season of visual and performing arts. Enjoy!
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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, BY HENRIK IBSEN, LAUNCHES THE COLLEGE THEATER SEASON
New World School of the Arts launches its theater season with the 1882 play by Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People. "Written over 130 years ago," explained director and NWSA faculty member Gail Garrisan, "Ibsen's words offer a scathing indictment of expediency over personal integrity, an exploration of ego, exploitation and personal gain, and a tale of never ending political maneuverings." The production highlights the talents of 19 New World School of the Arts college and two high school students."The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone," is the iconic phrase that identifies this ageless production by Ibsen. The protagonist, Dr. Stockmann, finds himself alone in his convictions among those who he deemed to be his friends. Determined to stand resolute for what he believes is just and to safeguard the health of his community, he decides to continue on his quest to expose the truth regardless of the enemies he makes along the way. NWSA production of An Enemy of the People is set in 1979 in a town where a bathing complex has been built. Although the new project is crucial to the town's economy, there is one major flaw, which Dr. Stockmann is not willing to overlook - the contamination of the baths' drainage system. He sets out to expose the danger, however, his own sister Ingrid - mayor of the town - as well as other movers and shakers in the area oppose his allegations in an effort to save the profits that the baths promise for the town.
October 11, 12, 18, 19; 7:30 PM
October 13, 20; 2:00 PM
Louise O. Gerrits Theater
25 NE 2 Street, downtown Miami
General admission $12 / Student and seniors $5 Information at 305-237-3541 
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FILMS FOR ONE TO EIGHT PROJECTORS
Presented in partnership with New World School of the Arts, FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS is a multi-projector film presentation by experimental filmmaker Roger Beebe. Beebe, whose films have shown around the globe from Sundance to the Museum of Modern Art and from McMurdo Station in Antarctica to the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, brings a program of his recent mutli-projector films to South Florida. In these films Beebe explores the possibilities of using multiple projectors-running as many as 8 projectors simultaneously-not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works of expanded cinema.
The show builds from the relatively straightforward two-projector films "The Strip Mall Trilogy" and "TB TX DANCE" to the more elaborate three-projector studies "Money Changes Everything" and "AAAAA Motion Picture" on finally to the eight-projector meditation on the mysteries of space, "Last Light of a Dying Star."
"[Beebe's films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America." - David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly
October 17; 7:00 PM
Artseen Gallery
2215 NW 2 Avenue, downtown MiamiFree and open to the public Information at 305-237-3620
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HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR CONCERT IS A HISTORICAL TREAT
The first High School Choir Concert of the year offers us a "historical tour of choral music," said NWSA HS Vocal Director Albert Clark. From Richard Farrant's Lord, For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake, written in the late 1500's to Z. Randall Stroope's beautiful setting of the Rainer Maria Rilke poem, Two Strings, But One Voice, written just last year.
The evening will also showcase Coronation Anthem No. 4, Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened - G.F. Handel; Fancies, a choral cycle of old English poems set to music by John Rutter; a new choral setting of Nimrod from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations by David Giardiniere; and To Be Sung On The Water by Samuel Barber.
In addition, the NWSA chamber choir, the New World Singers, will be performing Canadian composer Allister MacGillivray's Away From The Roll Of The Sea,
Robert H. Young's gorgeous setting of the Christina Rossetti poem, She Sat And Sang Alway, and Kirby Shaw's delightful When I Fall In Love.
October 18; 7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church of Miami
609 Brickell Avenue, downtown MiamiGeneral admission $10 / Students and seniors $5 Information at 305-237-7855
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NWSA REPERTORY DANCE ENSEMBLE
OFFERS A VIBRANT PROGRAM IN AVENTURA
Thi s year's performance by the NWSA Repertory Dance Ensemble at the Aventura Arts and Cultural Center will feature NWSA's talented high school and college dancers performing a varied evening of choreography. The program will include two ballet works - an excerpt from the upcoming Thomas Armour Youth Ballet/NWSA production of The Nutcracker and Lara Murphy's evocative contemporary ballet, Cortical Voyage. The performance will also include two works by modern dance masters: Martha Graham's lyrical group work, Adorations, and Jose Limón's final work, completed after his death by founding Dean of Dance Daniel Lewis, the Waldstein Sonata set to the stirring Beethoven Sonata. Finally, the evening will include two works by leading contemporary choreographers: recent McArthur Award-winning choreographer Kyle Abraham's jazz and hip-hop influenced work, Lily, and Darshan Singh Bhuller's powerful work The Virgin Queen, which employs cutting edge graphic design to transport the audience to Victorian England.
October 30; 8:00 PM
Aventura Arts & Cultural Center
3385 NE 188 Street, AventuraGeneral admission $12 / Tickets at www.aventuracenter.orgInformation at 305-237-3341
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THANK YOU, NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS SUPPORTERS
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Your generous gift will make a world of difference to our students, who each and every day put forth maximum effort to become professional artists. By supporting NWSA, you will foster their will to achieve their artistic dreams and realize their passion, and will help make our South Florida community one of the most dynamic arts centers in the world.
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Jeffrey Hodgson, D.M.A., Provost
Evonne S. Alvarez, H.S. Principal
Mary Lisa Burns, Dean of Dance
Milton R. Laufer, Dean of Music
Patrice Bailey, Dean of Theater
Maggy Cuesta, Dean of Visual Arts
Rita Fidalgo, Administrative Services
Maria M. Flores, Marketing and P.R.
Lourdes Werner, Student Services
Juan Piñera, Information Technology
Rafi Maldonado-Lopez, Development
Sandra Theard, Assistant to Provost
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