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November 5, 2008 |
Issue # 72 |
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A Fair to Remember
Miami’s premiere literary event turns 25
By Tina Koenig
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| It’s never too early to start reading, as a toddler discovers at the Miami Book Fair International |
Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde once said, "Life is never fair,
and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." Alas, poor Mr. Wilde never got to visit Miami in November, where life is a fair of the literary kind.
This year the Miami Book Fair International celebrates five squared years of bringing books and the people who write them to downtown Miami. The event, which runs from November 9 through November 16, hosts day and evening events with more than 350 authors from the United States, Latin America, Caribbean, and around the globe. It is the flagship event of Miami Dade College’s Florida Center for the Literary Arts, which, in partnership with independent bookseller, Books and Books, have been its sponsors since 1983.
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Musical Chairs
Tere O’Connor’s site-specific dance Rammed Earth comes to Miami
By John Kramel
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| Tere O’Connor Dance members Matthew Rogers and Christopher Williams will perform Rammed Earth at the Dorsch Gallery in Miami Photo: Julieta Cervantes” |
I am a movement-inhibited stiff, but have grown to love dance—especially modern and contemporary dance—as an audience member. So when I read about a forthcoming dance concert in which “audience members become active participants,” my knees clamp together and my shoulders hunch in dread. But this is what Tigertail Productions’ website says about Rammed Earth, Tere O’Connor’s site-specific piece coming on November 14 and 15 to Dorsch Gallery in the Wynwood Arts District.
What can I expect? I have the paper hand-out from last year’s performance of Rammed Earth at New York’s Chocolate Factory, which shows three rectangles, identified as Sections 2 through 4. The hand-out reads, “When you enter the space please sit in any chair preset around the room ... Please look at the number on the backrest of your chair (either 1 or 2) … You are seated in the position for Section 1.” Each of the rectangles shows where one is to place one’s chair for each of the succeeding three sections. In Section 2, the audience is all seated in one long row on one long side. Section 3 has the 1’s on one side and the 2’s on the other, and the final section has everyone on one end.
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