A sizzling and unapologetically pulsating fusion of Miami cultural dance Mix by Miami's leading multicultural contemporary dance company
Repertory by Armando Gonzalez, Justin Rapaport, Vitolio Jeune, Kashia Kancey & Peter London
A bold and powerful dance explosion. Riveting and spell binding drama unfolds in Miami's leading multicultural contemporary dance company's summer offering, featuring Miami's hottest contemporary dancers and choreographers. The iconic Peter London Global Dance company will have you leaning forward with the most spectacular and technically virtuosic contemporary and Afro-Diaspora dancers in South Florida, who are experts in Afro-Caribbean, Hip-Hop, contemporary, Latin, Jazz and classical dance.
PLGDC performances are sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida (Section 286.25, Florida Statutes) and the NEA, Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners and the Miami-Dade County Mayor's Office, the Miami Beach Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami Beach County Commissioners, the Miami Beach Mayor's office and Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, The Knight Foundation, The Miami Foundation, Avram Corporation, The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, FAN, the WEGE Foundation, Miami Salon Group, The FRIENDS of PLGDC Inc, PLGDC Friends Angels Circle, The Birthday Club (The Ladies), Selma Ankist Family Trust, Andrea Nobil, Trustee and with support from the Green Family Foundation Trust. Peter London Global Dance Company is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization.
Edge of Tomorrow is an electrifying and high-octane dance event produced by Peter London Global Dance Company of Miami for its 12th annual season commissioned by presenting arts partner the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
The Betsy’s public opening will feature PLGDC in two pop-up dance performances celebrating the works of Moroccan artists.
Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Department’s International Cultural Partnership Collaboration with Peter London Global Dance Company & MD Company of Martinique presents COMBINATION.
An electrifying and passionately delivered new millennium movement choreographed and directed by David Milome, Artistic Director of MD Company and Peter London, Artistic Director of PLGDC.
Peter London Global Dance Company in its 13th season and listed by Miami New Times as one of Miami's "Top Ten Dance Companies" presents a one-of-a-kind, electrifying dance concert of new and repertory works featuring women choreographers and musicians and a magnificent array of Miami's finest contemporary dancers of grace, creative imagination, and technical virtuosity ...trained in classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance, Afro-Caribbean, jazz and Hip-Hop.
Featured in this program are the Metamorphosis Dance Company and the Sat Kathak Kala Sangam Dance Companies of Trinidad and Tobago. Hailed as two of the leading cultural dance ambassadors of the twin Islands nation, MDC will deliver fresh and vibrant Afro-Caribbean and Contemporary choreography and SKKS will offer exciting and mesmerizing classical Indian dance and music that includes Kathak and Odissi.
The new works: World premiere of a fascinating and dynamic MD Company performed work by David Milome, and the world premiere of his contagiously hot and wild work for PLGDC, that includes the ferocious dancers of MD Company. London’s world premiere of “Children of the Underground” created for MD Company and which includes PLGDC technical virtuosic and spiritually possessed dancers, weaves a dynamic and thrilling movement narrative of the journey of Africans from the Continent, over the Atlantic, into the Americas and the Caribbean, and by any means necessary, held on to their soul sustaining traditional dance and music rituals, both sacred and secular, with innovative changes that kept the core of the concepts intact. Driving and pulsating off your seat movements and music carries the soul from temple to street to underground New York City club houses and hidden rituals.
Repertory: The blazing and electrically charged program includes PLGDC’s La Danse Vie with high Octane music from Jazz Trumpeter and Band Leader of Creole Soul, Etienne Charles and master pannist and composer Leon Foster Thomas of the critically acclaimed 2023 album CALISANTIUS.
The Peter London Global Dance Company is Miami's leading multiethnic and multi-cultural dance company with dancers, choreographers, repertory, musicians and artists that displays the rich, multicultural heritage of the city’s global community in a colorful explosion of contemporary dance, Afro-Caribbean and Latin dance, imbued with spiritual energy and duende while sizzling with Miami 's heat and agua dulce.
Saturday, July 29th, 2023 at 7 pm
Little Haiti Cultural Complex
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Each visiting company will teach one community educational class. Classes are free and open to the public. However, there is a $5 registration fee. The schedule of the classes:
Tuesday, July 25th
4:00-5:30 pm – Community class with MD Company in Studio A, Little Haiti Cultural Complex.
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Wednesday, July 26th
3:30-4:55 pm - Community class with Metamorphosis Dance Company in Studio A, Little Haiti Cultural Complex.
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5:00-6:30 pm - Community class with Kathak Kala Sangam Dance Company in Studio A, Little Haiti Cultural Complex.
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About MD Company
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About Metamorphosis Dance Company
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META Programme Notes
Bio of Artistic Director Nancy Herrera
Bio of Assistant Artistic Director Terry Springer
About Sat Kathak Kala Sangam Dance Company
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Bios of dancers
Please join us for the 2nd annual Peter London Global Dance Company performance at Miami Beach Botanical Garden. This festive Garden soirée will feature vibrant and colorful dances, powerfully punctuated by electrifying rhythms of Carnival, Rhumba, Salsa, Tango and Caribbean Dance.
The program celebrates the vibrant and electrifying Afro and Latin rhythmic sounds and movement of Miami, with spectacular dancing delivered without reservation by the magnificent and luscious PLGDC dancers, known for their powerhouse technique and spiritual splendor. The iconic PLGDC is recognized by the Miami New Times as one of Miami's top ten dance companies. The high-octane music includes compositions by the award-winning jazz composer and band leader, Etienne Charles and some of the finest Afro Caribbean, Salsa, and Rumba rhythms.
PLGDC's dynamic performance will take place on the Garden's Great Lawn. Visitors are welcome to bring lawn chairs and blankets, some seating will be provided. Refreshments will be available from the Botanical Bar. In the case of rain the performance will be moved under cover.
Free and open to public. Please RSVP to reserve your seat. Donations welcome.
THE RISING features two world premieres by two women, Kashia Kancey and Brooke Skye Logan with each work accompanied by female composers, and a new company production by Melissa Verdecia (former soloist with Ballet Hispanico). The program celebrates WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH and includes works by Peter London and Armando Gonzales (principal dancer with Grand Ballet of Geneva, Switzerland) that also celebrates the female dancer and female musician. The program is a tour de force of fantastic contemporary choreography fused with the dance forms of Tango, modern dance, and Afro-Caribbean dance. The iconic Peter London Global Dance Company dancers known for their technical virtuosity, high octane, and spiritual energy, holds nothing back with this vibrant multi-cultural dance performance that celebrate the multi-cultural landscape of Miami and South Florida.
WORLD PREMIERES
· A vibrant and mystical duet choreographed by Kashia Kancey with a world premiere commissioned score by Cristina Moya Palacios.
· Brooke Skye Logan premieres her first full company work exceptional beauty and lyric power for PLGDC with a brilliant score by violinist.
· GRACIAS A LA VIDA: Choreography & costumes by Peter London. An ode to the deep and soulful artistic work of internationally renowned Chilean songstress, Mercedes Sosa. Chilean artist, Camilo Toro dances a powerful and heartfelt tour de force solo in his interpretation of this beloved song.
NEW PRODUCTION
· Melissa Verdecia’s work, Que Se Enquentra Los Arrabales is a new company production on a 2015 world premiere. Verdecia’s exploration of the origins of Tango in the hamlets of Argentina evokes the hopes, dreams, and ecstatic struggles of the working class, that morphed into a modern and popular high life rendition of the original and home spun manifestations.
· EOMEONI: Choreography & costumes by Brooke Skye Logan. A work of high emotional and physical drama and technical virtuosity, danced with unrelenting intensity and fire by Nicole Pedraza.
· CALLE FLORIDA: Choreography & costumes by Peter London. A dynamic solo dance by Isabelle Vazquez and fused with Tango moves and brimming with electrifying sensuality. The dance is inspired by the lively and colorful scenes of pedestrians dressed in high fashion on the shopping walk plaza, Calle Florida in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
· STEPPE TANGO Choreography & costumes by Armando Gonzalez. This contemporary influenced Tango dance with bristling energy and heat by Eden Collier and Clinton Harris, opens with an evocation of a Bulgarian folk rhythm that sets up the performance for a hauntingly passionate duet of speed and duende.
REPERTORY
· KAISO BACCHANAL: Choreography and costumes by Peter London. This full company work is a colorful explosion of rhythm, fiery movement and costumes that typifies the Carnival celebrations of Trinidad & Tobago.
This electrifying program will be presented at the Sanctuary of the Arts on Saturday, April 1st at 7:30 pm.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: our ADA Bathrooms are undergoing renovation at this time.
You can also get tickets at the door on the day of the performance.
Dranoff 2 Piano presents Steel Pan Virtuoso Leon Foster Thomas and his band in West African Beats with Peter London Global Dance Company.
Unique blends of African and Caribbean influences and spirit evolving from Leon Foster Thomas’ Trinidadian heritage, combined with innovative jazz compositions premiering hit tracks from brand new album “Calasantius.” All accompanied by the choreography and dancers of Peter London Global Dance Company.
Pre-concert talk at 7 pm.
Ancestral Ground
Choreography by Justin Rapaport, Kashia Kancey, Vitolio Jeune, Alondra Balbuena, Marion Skye Brook and Peter London
Commissioned scores by Etienne Charles, Ezra Haugabrooks, Jeremy Jordon and Elijah Gee
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Peter London Global Dance Company in its 11th season presents a one-of-a-kind, electrifying dance concert. Ancestral Ground features a magnificent array of choreographic voices loaded with new-kids-on-the-block fierceness and beyond-the-wall innovation.
Miami's leading multiethnic choreographers display the rich multicultural heritage of the city’s global community in a colorful explosion of Afro-Caribbean and Latin flair, imbued with spiritual energy and duende while sizzling with Miami heat and agua dulce. These virtuosic performances are accompanied by vibrant commissioned scores.
Haunting and otherworldly music by Ezra Haugabrooks, founding artistic director of The Ballet and Dance Orchestra, plays during Peter London’s voluptous and revealing "UNFOLD," a metamorphosis of divine creatures of sky, land and sea. Alondra Balbuena's sophisticated and cool "IMPERIUM" offers a large slice of Miami sassyness, drawn out by Elija Gee’s luscious and hypnotic score. Kashia Kancey exhibits her take-no-prisoners choreographic intelligence in "AND SO I RUN," a near cataclysmic explosion of mind, body and soul movement, accompanied by waves of joyous, heart-pounding music by Jeremy Jordan. Award-winning choreographer Justin Rapaport’s world premiere duet "AROUND, WOULD YOU TURN" is an incomparable blend of technical virtousity and passion. Haitian-American choreographer Vitolio Jeune dramatizes his sibling relationship in an intricate, explosive duet of brotherly love. Marion Skye Brook delivers a wild punch with the world premiere of her ensemble work.
This is not a normal concert, but a divine experience created by our artists to celebrate the resilience of our community during the pandemic.
Note: This production contains mature content.
Photo credit: PLGDC in Miami Beach Night Stars for The Rhythm Foundation at North Beach Bandshell. Photo by Edison Boodoosing.
Miami Light Project, in partnership with YoungArts, presents: Touch of RED by Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
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Reimaging the boxing ring from a space of duels to one of duets, Touch of RED challenges how we think about male vulnerability, utilizing projection, animation, and lighting to create an immersive world for its central duo as they turn a space of aggression into one of softness.
Rounds:
RED Pollock
Lifeblood
Embers/Embraces
Interlude
Umbilical
The Glitch
gloves off!
Touching
Father | Son
Borderline Blood Burial
Touch of Red is part of Shamel Pitts’ “RED Series” which continues his research to propose and share the colorfulness within Blackness, creating a body of work that supports, shelters, and cultivates an Afro-futuristic performance art landscape in which the multitude of Black diversity and capacity is realized, allowed, nurtured, and shared.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
TRIBE - Multidisciplinary Visual Performances is a Brooklyn-based Afrofuturistic arts collective dedicated to creating, producing, and sharing original multidisciplinary global art projects founded in December 2019 by choreographer and performer Shamel Pitts.
Understanding that performance art and live art are practices of human connection, TRIBE acts nationally and internationally by developing art exchanges in collaboration with institutions and artists, with a focus on the African diaspora.
TRIBE’s mission is to seize space and create a platform for artists – most specifically artists of color – with huge inspiration from the Afrofuturism movement. This movement states that we have a responsibility through our work to tell new stories and create a brighter future that is different, and shines more luminously, from its past.
Ultimately, TRIBE aims to bring its audience and community into experiences that humanize Black and Brown bodies and share the colorfulness within Blackness that allows us to be multiplicitous.
“Touch of RED” is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Miami Light Project INC, Jacob’s Pillow, YoungArts, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, New York Live Arts INC, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Office of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). The piece has also been supported by the Consulate General of Israel in New York, Trust for Mutual Understanding, GIBNEY, and The Harkness Foundation for Dance. Bubble residency guidance provided by Duke Dang and medical consultant Dr. Wendy Ziecheck.
Please feel free to contact us with any accessibility assistance questions: eventz@miamilightproject.com
Sunshine Jazz Organization's 36th Season
SJO Monthly Jazz Series Presents Ms. Carole Ann Taylor
Friday, November 4th, 2022 | 7:30pm - 10:00pm
The Sandrell Rivers Black Box Theater
Every third Friday of the month from October to December immerse yourself in a multicultural musical experience brought to you by Bank of America. The Underline’s Global Music Series features three nights of live performances on The Underline's Sound Stage located on the corner of SW 8th Street and SW 1st Ave.
On October 21st, we'll kick off the night with the Peter London Global Company in La Dance Creole, a festive community gathering. This spectacular Afro Caribbean and Contemporary dance explosion will feature an original recorded score by award-winning Trinidadian Jazz trumpeter and composer, Etienne Charles and American and Caribbean star vocalists. For the grand finale, performers will engage the audience in the Carnival Calypso dance "Kaiso Bacchanal."
Food and beverages from local vendors will be available for sale. So bring your dancing shoes and get ready to be transported to the Caribbean for the evening!
Space is limited, RSVP is required!
In support of our 10th annual season at the Adrienne Arsht Center
December 28-31, 2022
Hosted by and at the home of Norman Munroe, PLGDC Board President
Address - 11712 SW 128 Place, Miami, FL 33186
6:00 pm - Cocktails
7:00 pm - Dinner
8:30 pm - Dancers’ entertainment
9:00 pm - Dessert
Enjoy sumptuous and exotic Caribbean food, beverages, desserts, and a special Ambrosia by Peter London. Mix and Mingle with our magnificent dancers.
Tickets $50.00
A suggested minimum donation of $1,000
For tickets and event information contact Clarissa V. Willis at peterlondon@plgdc.org or peterlondon@comcast.net
PLGDC BOARD OF DIRECTORS INVITES YOU TO
URBAN SERENGETI A
FESTIVE AUCTION, COCKTAILS & DANCE PERFORMANCE
- EVENT ACTIVITIES -
GRAND DOOR PRIZE
Sponsored by Louis Vuitton, limited edition rare extra large coffee table art book featuring international photographers’ portraits of the “Beautiful People” (famous rock musicians, models, artists, movie stars) Retail value: $1,400-$2,000
MEET AND GREET WITH DANCERS
RAFFLES
SATURDAY JULY 16, 2022
LITTLE HAITI CULTURAL COMPLEX THEATER
212 NE 59TH Terrace, Miami FL 33137 (305) 960-2969 (free parking on site)
5:00pm - DANCE PERFORMANCE • 6:00pm - AUCTION & RECEPTION
ADMISSION TICKETS $15
GRAND DOOR PRIZE TICKETS $100
DONATE AT PLGDC.ORG
WINGS & ROSES
Sponsorship: Miami Beach Cultural Affairs Department
Co-Host: Miami Beach Botanical Gardens
PROGRAM: UNFOLD
Season Premiere - Choreography by Peter London
With World Premiere Commissioned Score played Live by the Ballet and Dance Orchestra, Ezra Haugabrooks, Composer and Artistic Director
PLGDC 2022 Repertory
URBAN SERENGETI
RAIN & WINGS
FROSTIES
SUNDAY, MAY 15TH
2:30pm performance
TICKETS $20
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MIAMI BEACH BOTANICAL GARDENS
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139
(305) 673-7256 mbgarden.org
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peterlondon@plgdc.org. (786) 209-5353. (786)209-2963 plgdc.org
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WOMEN'S CHOREOGRAPHIC VOICES
In Honor of Vivian M. Bresnihan (1945-2021)
Three world premieresWe are excited for this joint collaboration with the Peter London Dance Company and the New Canon Chamber Collective. This performance is the joint expression of the relationship between sound and movement. The three world premieres include choreography by Kashia Kancey, Alondra Balbuena and Brooke Logan with live accompaniment of commissioned scores by South Florida composers. They are Elijah Gee and Jeremy Jordan, directed by Portia Dunkley, Founder and Executive Director of New Canon Chamber Collective.
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AN EXOTIC CARIBBEAN SPRING DINNER PARTY A FESTIVE AFFAIR
Peter London and the PLGDC Board of Directors cordially invites you to our 11th Year Anniversary Dinner Party. Enjoy fine foods, beverages, desserts and music with an exotic Caribbean influence.Meet our magnificent dancers and guest artists at this vibrant affair at the Coral Gables Museum's beautiful grand hall and garden.
LIVE AUCTION OF FINE HAUTE COUTURE BRANDS, FASHION, JEWELRY AND ACCESSORIES
Sunday, April 3rd: 4:00pm performance & 5:00pm Spring Dinner Party
Coral Gables Museum
285 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134 (305) 603 - 8067
Municipal Parking garage (220 Aragon Ave. across the street from the museum)
TICKETS ARE LIMITED
Performance $25 • Dinner Party $75 • Performance & Dinner Party $100
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For Reservation and venue details, Please contact Peter London Dance Company: peterlondon@comcat.net • peterlondon@plgdc.org • (786) 209-5353 • (305) 297-5751
RSVP by Monday March 28th
Peter London Global Dance Company
PO BOX 611671 North Miami FL 33261
Our dance film Eviction about our company's resilience during the pandemic will be premiered on January 21 as part of the Miami Beach Department of Cultural Affairs Culture Crawl program.
Dance portrayals will include homelessness and street dwelling by any means necessary. Marginalized LGBTQ injustice and the incredible creativity born out of their ouster from the general society and brutal discrimination in housing, employment, medical support, and many other social livings and thriving needs (that mirrors that the intersectionality of those relegated to the lower caste) we all desire to have as a human right.
The portrayals also include JOURNEY TO TEA, a dance of deep desire for human physical connection based on separation and exile from loved ones, brought to a nearly unbearable state due to Covid 19 social distancing protocols.
MIAMI DAVID, Florence, eat your heart out. This one is alive and moves, even if he/she, they are caught in the Lockdown or the Lock-Up. The pandemic closed costume shops, costumes set and prop shops, and comfortable indoor performance spaces with the magical effects of lights, sound, and fancy costumes; the normal theater production process is suspended. However, it also brought opportunities to innovate and embellish old themes. Thus, costume concepts include found objects on the beach. Props include imaginary friends for those lonely hours on the streets or alone for long hours, days, weeks, and months at home.
MY COCONUT LADIES, decked out in two penny pearls, Madras head wraps, and large eye bangers with Pend d'Orielles, along with glam pieces that bring the fantasy of highlife club nights to life for the discarded among us; that which lifts their spirits to high ecstasy and 'goddessness', if only for one gaudy night, bringing hope to live another day, and release, from the vexing and unrelenting grim undertow of the roughness, bestowed upon those who dare to live as Martha Graham said “... the life of a realist", and in part, that driving force of life and the desire to "... become not one of five hundred, but one of five, one of four".
This event is free and open to the public.
SoundScape Park, 500 17th Street, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Photographer: Shameka Seabrook
This fun-filled and spirited virtual event with a fantastic live auction fundraiser in support of our 11th Annual Season at Adrienne Arsht Center. The world premiere of TOUCH & RAIN ON ME that will celebrate the resilience of our community during the pandemic on December 28-31, 2021.
This vibrant event will feature an exciting movement demonstration by PLGDC company dancers and excerpts of movements from the upcoming season and opens the door to the exciting behind-the-scenes innovative process of our guest choreographers, Gentry Isaiah George, Brooke Logan, and Justin Rapaport of Ballet BC, Vancouver, Canada.
Interact with our panelists via Zoom or join the chat on our Facebook Livestream page.
More details coming soon!
The pandemic brought us eviction from our daily normal, akin to the increasing home evictions faced by some in our communities. Eviction in personal and intimate relationships, where the normal activity of touching became a threat to health and life.
The pandemic brought eviction and separation from once-held jobs, once owned businesses, creativity, worship, and play, looming over the community like an unbeatable giant, like a David and Goliath standoff. The great outdoors of beaches, parks, woodlands, etc. became more beloved and desirable for our health and well-being.
The program features two top-notch musical artists. The world premieres of TOUCH and RAIN ON ME will have live accompaniment by the Ballet and Dance Orchestra with scores commissioned by PLGDC and composed by founding Artistic Director of BAD, Ezra Haugabrooks. International Jazz great, Nicole Henry will premiere her first collaboration with PLGDC for a new ballet. Included in the program are world premieres by Peter London, Brooke Logan, Gentry Isaiah George, and Justin Rapaport.
THE STREETS: During this time it is estimated that there has been a significant increase in evictions from homes, exacerbating an already looming crisis.
THE MIAMI DAVID (Rafael del Vizo, Gentry Isaiah George, Aaron Lopez, Leon Cobb): The pandemic has forced people to self-quarantine and mandated lockdowns and the closings of public spaces, like those caught in the Lock-Up/ incarceration system. The pandemic stands like a Goliath against its victims. A seeming insurmountable force and battle.
JOURNEY TO TEA ( Deja Darbonne and Aaron Lopez): The simple act of sharing tea or quality time with a loved one was suspended.
MY BROKEN HEART (Johnnie Wright and Rafael del Vizo): The inability to see loved ones and to touch, or say goodbye, as they made their final transitions, produced devastating emotional trauma for many. Relationships broken, suspended, lost, sudden goodbyes forever.
URBAN SERENGETI-KALINDA WASH (Kalinda, Jade McCartney, the River, Aaron Lopez, Deja Darbonne, Gentry Isaiah George, Rafael del Vizo): One of the pandemic's watch word is "wash your hands". That is if you have clean water or water to spare to wash your hands. Water, and clean water became more crucially vital and essential in the pandemic. Kalinda is the Indian (Sanskrit) word for the sun. Mythology has it that that the Kalindi waters flow from the mountains of the Kalinda to the ocean. In this dance, we acknowledge the divine waters and the sun that is large part, the source of of our existence and renewal, and the pandemic could not have made it more real. more clear.
Adrienne Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
Photographer: Shameka Seabrook
The 24-hour online fundraiser is sponsored by The Miami Foundation. Our mission is to create unparalleled dance opportunities for South Florida dancers and choreographers and showcase their talent to the world.
PLGDC is seeking funds to support our artists during this critical time. Your support will provide funds for our production and filming, musical licenses, and other digital needs. Also, your donations will cover salaries for our administrative staff. Our donors play a significant role in sustaining a successful company of talented dancers, robust programs, and community outreach. Please consider contributing to support Peter London Global Dance Company. Thank you for your generosity and support.
Photographer: Gregory Reed
A glittering evening of sizzling and fiery dancing by PLGDC dancers featuring Peter London's Urban Serengeti, a colorful explosion of a Jazzed up contemporary Afro Caribbean explosion of movement and color in magnificent carnival costumes dance to the award-winning album CREOLE SOUL, by international and award-winning Jazz musician, composer, arranger and bandleader, Etienne Charles, London's riveting solo, MALI SOUL, danced by guest artist, Leon Cobb, former soloist with PLGDC and dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Jose Limon Dance Company and MOMIX, Aaron Lopez's mercurial solo performance of London's ROSES FOR WOMEN and Gentry Isaiah George's ONE STOLEN KISS commissioned by PLGDC in 2015 and performed by Deja Darbonne, Rafael del Vizo and Aaron Lopez.
The North Beach Bandshell, 7275 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33141
Photographer: Shameka Seabrook.
Peter London Global Dance Company (PLGDC) in collaboration with Metamorphosis Dance Company of Trinidad & Tobago presents a dynamic and electrifying dance explosion of contemporary dance rooted in the African Diaspora dance traditions and retention of West African dance ritual and music.
Springer, a Trinidadian dancer, and choreographer virtually created EMBERS from Port of Spain, Trinidad on the PLGDC dancers in Miami. EMBERS depicts the natural instinct of the human being to survive under harsh conditions and times of adversity. It’s about that inner glow we all possess as beings.
PLGDC Artistic Director, London created virtually FIRE & GOLD on the Metamorphosis Dance Company in Port of Spain. London's work celebrates the powerful, dramatic, and high-octane dances of the Caribbean, derived from the West African Yoruba, Igbo/Ibo, Congo, and Haiti. Elements of thunder and lightning of the venerated Orisha King/Oba Shango of the 15th century Oyo Empire of southwestern Nigeria, the water goddesses Orisha Oshun, Loa Ersilli, and Orisha Ogun, God of iron and war, cut through the dance like lightning, fired up by the heart-pounding music from the award-winning album Creole Soul by international award-winning jazz musician Etienne Charles.
This event is sponsored by the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs.
This is free virtual event.
Photographer: Gregory Reed
This firebrand Sneak Peek of our 11th Annual Season. TOUCH & RAIN ON ME speaks to the resilience of our dancers, artists, and communities to find innovative and exciting ways to continue our creativity and work in spite of the phenomenal challenge rendered by the pandemic. Featured excerpts of this dynamic and innovative event include a bold and in-your-face work by award-winning choreographer, Justin Rapaport, of Ballet BC, Vancouver, Canada, and recipient of the 2021 Danish Dance Theater Award at the 14th Copenhagen International Choreography Competition, a tour de force solo influenced of the desire for healing by the contemporary dance virtuoso, Brooke Logan and the 2018 winner of the Dance Magazine Dance Video of the month award, and a compelling work loosely based on the migration of birds and men, Gentry Isaiah George, former AILEY II and Dance Theatre of Harlem Dancer. This powerfully uplifting dance event includes a post-performance Mix & Mingle with the artists. By invitation only. Seating is limited.
Little Haiti Cultural Complex Theater, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, FL 33137
By invitation only. Seating is limited.
Photographer: Shameka Seabrook
August celebrates National Black Business Month. Harris Public Relations in collaboration with the Betsy hotel are back with a new set of "Cultural Conversations.”
This discussion will be held in person at The Betsy Hotel (1440 Ocean Dr., Miami Beach, FL 33139).
Listen to our panelists, featuring Artistic Director Peter London, share their gems of navigating this space post-Covid and share key ways the South Florida community can support.
Cultural Conversations is part of an ongoing commitment to global arts, culture, business, and community issues. The goal is to provide a platform for exciting and engaging dialogue to inspire greater participation and passion for community engagement.
Back by popular demand! After receiving rave reviews, have a chance again to view PLGDC's phenomenal production of "Women-Roses-Water!"
Available now on Eventbrite!
In honor of Black History Month, enjoy excerpts from PLGDC's production of Black Men Stories produced at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Fall 2019.
On June 24, PLGDC's Happy Hour features a celebration of Caribbean American Heritage of partnership and collaborations in the performing and culinary arts, journalism, artwork, and large scale community events like the Caribbean Carnival and Reggae and Jerk festival, just to name a few.
In 2020, the City of Miami Beach commemorated the 155th Juneteenth Independence Day by holding a ceremony at Pride Park and planting a Rainbow Eucalyptus tree to forever remember the day in 1865 that all enslaved black people learned they had been freed from bondage and to celebrate Black lives and contributions to the city. The following events will take place to commemorate Juneteenth in the City of Miami Beach:
City of Miami Beach presents : Juneteenth Day of Freedom
Second annual event at the Rainbow Eucalyptus tree, which was planted in 2020
Saturday, June 19 | 9 AM – 10AM
Pride Park, 1809 Meridian Avenue
Performances by Rebecca “Butterfly” Vaughns and the Peter London Global Dance Company
Ceremony will be streamed live on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cityofmiamibeach
PLGDC is thrilled to celebrate International Dance Day! As a global multi-cultural dance company, our focus of promoting equity and equality for our artists is indeed a reason to celebrate this very special occasion. Our virtual program will feature some of our dancers, our multicultural global choreographic heritage, and our dancers' personal experience as global citizens.
PLGDC is thrilled to be featured on the special Peace Studio zoom program!
The Peace Studio's mission is to reach and engage storytellers across all disciplines to build a movement that leads to a more empathetic and less divided world. The program will introduce South Florida to :
