32nd  s e a s o n   e v e n t s   c a l e n d a r

Our 32nd season is over. Thanks for your support. Return soon to see next season's exciting lineup!

Tigertail Season 11/12 Expected\Unexpected Kickoff Party

Party and Celebration

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Joey's restaurant
2506 NW 2nd Ave., Wynwood, Miami
Free and Open to the Public!

Save the date and gear up for our 32nd SEASON Opening Party behind Joey's at Wynwood Walls. Tigertail is known for our lively parties. Enjoy the outrageous NYC performance artist Pat Oleszko and her inflatable art. Take in special appearances by guests artists and the Tigertail WordSpeak team hot from Brave New Voices in San Francisco. Win prizes and season tickets.

Tigertail, A South Florida Annual: Florida Flash

Book Launch and Reading

Monday, October 17, 2011, 8:00 pm, free admission
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

The ninth edition of Tigertail's annual poetry publication, edited by Lynne Barrett moves into prose to explore the edges and overlaps between lyrical and narrative approaches. Fifty-four authors with connections to Florida contribute prose poetry, flash fiction, and flash nonfiction. For each piece, editor Lynne Barrett set a maximum word count of 305—a number representing the original South Florida area code as well as the limits of a single page—and the result is an exuberant collection that captures both scintillant moments and the faceted turnings of memory. The cover image is by Miami artist Brian Reedy. Call Tigertail today to purchase the book: 305 324 4337.

Livio Tragtenberg – The Cabinet of Dr. Strange

Sound Installation for Sleepless Night, Miami Beach

Saturday, November 5, 2011, 6:00 pm to midnight
free admission
Lincoln Road Mall at Washington Avenue

The Cabinet of Dr. Strange is a video sound performance created for an urban environment by this noted Brazilian composer and inventor of urban sound events. Tigertail fans will remember Livio from two Miami performances of Nervous City Orchestra. Performed from inside a cage, Dr. Strange establishes a special relationship with the audience by using an open mike. He then processes these sounds within seconds. The piece establishes a dialogue of humor, irony and surprise.For complete event information, click here

WordSpeak, Spoken Word for Teens

Book Launch and Reading

Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 8:00 pm
Free admission – All ages are welcome
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

Tigertail's award-winning 2011 WordSpeak teen team brings you the leading edge of new work in spoken word. Poems spit by WordSpeak team members will rivet you to your seat. Book cover designed by Chris Meesey, teen editor is Gio Garced.
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Wally Cardona

Tool Is Loot – Contemporary Dance within WinterFest

Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:30 pm
Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach

Tool Is Loot is a one-year process of disorientation resulting in a duet. Working apart, in NYC and Paris respectively, Bessie award-winner Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey each solicited week-long encounters with non-dance experts. Each artist treated their aesthetic position to a barrage of assessment, opinions and desires of an "outsider." They ask, "What comes after you don't know anymore?" Workshop and panel discussion, Thursday, January 19, InkUb8.
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AXIS Dance Company

Florida Premiere – Full of Words

Part of danceAble, presented by Florida Dance Association and Tigertail

Saturday, January 28, 2012 8:00 pm
Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach

This 12th annual danceAble event presents workshops, discussion and an electric evening of three works: The Narrowing by Sebastian Grubb, Light Shelter by David Dorfman (includes 9 Miami dancers) and the Florida Premiere of Full of Words by the noted British dancer and choreographer, Marc Brew. AXIS was recently featured on FOX TV's "So You Think You Can Dance." Call Tigertail for info on danceAble workshops: 305 324 4337.
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SpeakOut – Tigertail's Gay & Lesbian Teen Spoken Word Project

Lenelle Moïse, Workshops and Performance

Friday, February 10, 2012, 8:00 pm, free admission
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

Tigertail brings back Lenelle Moïse, a powerhouse poet, theater artist and dynamic speaker. Lenelle Moïse offers interactive performances and workshops that address race, class, feminism, LGBTQ identities, new theater aesthetics, immigration and Haitian-American culture. She creates intimate, fiery, politicized texts about the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality, culture and compassion. Workshops and performances, week of February 6 through 10, 2012.       For complete event information, click here

Elliott Sharp

Solo by Elliott Sharp, plus Syndakit with Musicians from U of M's FridaMusiq

Saturday, February 25, 2012, 8:30 pm
Miami Dade County Auditorium On-Stage
2901 West Flagler, Miami

Elliott Sharp is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and curator central to the experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Kronos String Quartet; among others. Critics have hailed Elliott Sharp as one of American music's lesser-known geniuses, a guitarist and composer who works both within and at the fringes of NYC's avant-jazz and experimental rock music scenes.
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James Cotton Superharp Band

An Evening with a Legendary Blues Great
Co-presented with South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center (SMDCAC)

Saturday, March 17, 2012 8:00 pm
SMDCAC
10950 SW 211th Street, Cutler Bay

Grammy Award-winner James Cotton with a blast-furnace sound, a larger-than-life personality, and massive frame, "Mr. Superharp" is a blues giant in every respect. The New York Times adds, "Cotton helped define modern blues harmonica with his moaning, wrenching phrases and his train-whistle wails." Join us at this beautiful new intimate facility in South Dade for soul stirring music.
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WordSpeak – Tigertail's Teen Spoken Word Project

Josh Healey, Workshops and Performance

Friday, March 23, 2012, 8:00 pm, free admission
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables

This teen spoken word project includes workshops, slams and performances in a residency by Josh Healey, a community organizer, arts educator, and award winning poet from the SF Bay Area. Healey has been featured in The New York Times and on NPR and Al-Jazeera. He is the co-founder of the First Wave program at the University of Wisconsin, the first college hip-hop arts program in the nation. Healey is the recent Youth Development Program Director of the nationally recognized, San Francisco-based youth literacy organization Youth Speaks and was key staff for Brave New Voices, the annual Olympics of spoken word. Workshops and performances, week of March 19 through 23, 2012.For complete event information, click here

Nu Flamenco

Guitarist José Luis Rodriguez with dancer Niurca Márquez

Saturday, April 21, 2012 8:30 pm
Colony Theatre
1040 Lincoln Rd., Miami Beach

Continuing Tigertail's series of virtuoso guitarists, we have arranged an extraordinary concert featuring contemporary flamenco guitarist José Luis Rodriguez with dancer Niurca Márquez. Rodriguez studied in Andalusia, Spain, under famed guitarist Mario Escudero. He has performed to great acclaim in Paris, London, Buenos Aires, New York, Barcelona and many other world cities.
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Tigertail Annual Fundraiser

Expected \ Unexpected
Silent Auction assitance: Fredric Snitzer

Saturday, May 12, 2012, 8:00-11:00 pm
Miami-Dade County Auditorium, On-Stage Black Box
2901 West Flagler, Miami

Bring your PEEPS and Party with us at the Tigertail Fundraiser. Monsieur Peep will greet you as you enter. Enjoy inventive imaginative performance peeps by Miami’s finest. Build or start your art collection. This is the place to do it. You can't go to eBay for the jewels you can purchase in the not so silent silent auction.

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