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Axis Dance Company premieres at
the Colony Theatre.
WEEK OF JAN. 26-FEB. 1, 2012
festivals around the world tells the story of
10-year-old Laure, who moves to a new suburb
and pretends to be Mikael, a boy, around her
new friends while acting like a girl at home.
She navigates the tricky road toward forging
a new identity, encountering tense moments
such as having to choose swimming attire that
won’t give away her
secret and traversing
a friendship with a
girl who falls in love
with “Mikael.” All
the while, it hints at
what a tolerant world
could look like if little
kids didn’t grow up
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ary 1. Tickets cost $10
for adults, $9 for students and seniors, and $8 for MBC members.
Call 305-673-4567 or visit mbcinema.com.
Read the full review on page 34. GABRIELA GARCIA
TIMES ARE WEIRD
Theophilus London,
Tuesday
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[DANCE]
The Ping and Pong of It
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Jungle Fever
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[FILM]
Gender Role
This month, an innocuous-looking 14-year-old
launched the most terrifying YouTube video
we’ve seen since the Jesus Camp movie trailers.
In it, the stone-faced teen calls for a Girl Scouts
cookie boycott and warns that the organization is pushing a “radical homosexual agenda”
because it allowed a 7-year-old transgendered
girl into a troop in Colorado. We, on the other
hand, suggest investing in a lifetime supply of
Thin Mints and Samoas, and heading to Miami Beach Cinematheque (1130 Washington
Ave., Miami Beach) to catch French director
Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy. The comingof-age film that won accolades at LGBT film
Why Patterns & Recess
at the Arsht
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A disturbing vision of nature profoundly
shaped by man is the subject of María Thereza Negreiros’s new exhibit, ushering in an
early spring at the Frost Art Museum (10975
SW 17th Ave., Miami). In her solo show,
“Offerings,” the Brazilian native presents a
suite of compelling canvases that isolate the
intricate beauty of the Amazon as if captured
from a distant satellite lens.
Employing a vibrant palette shimmering with luminous hues, Negreiros depicts
mysterious jungle habitats teeming with
wildlife and vegetation.
The artist, who now lives in Colombia but
spent her childhood in Brazil, creates lush,
monochromatic landscapes that are often
shadowy in nature. Her work features winding river banks, moss-covered copses of trees,
cascading waterfalls, and the steaming jungle
heat. The colorful abstractions both reduce
and enhance the complexity of an unstable
environment, evoking the terrible sense of
loss caused by the rapid encroachment of
technology. In works such as Great Ipago, created in 1994, Negreiros even seems to presage
a Google Earth view of the Amazon terrain
while conveying the dangers of deforestation.
The exhibit runs through April 1. Museum
hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
Admission is free. Call 305-348-2890 or visit
thefrost.fiu.edu. CARLOS SUAREZ DE JESUS
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Last year, homeboy artist Daniel Arsham
returned from his transplanted home of
New York to put on the experimental dance
performance Replica. He and his firm,
Snarkitecture, created the amazing sets,
and avant-garde dancer Jonah Bokaer provided much of the movement. The two have
teamed up again for a brand-new production,
Why Patterns & Recess, at the Adrienne
Arsht Center’s Carnival Studio Theater (1300
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Tomboy at MBC messes around
with gender roles.
The Amazon as art at the
Frost Museum.
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