Live Arts Miami & Rosie Herrera Dance Theater Present:
Hot ‘N Heavy
Rigorous Play — Cabaret Tools for Tender Performance with Rosie Herrera and Dito Van Reigersberg.
Dates & Workshop Times:
- August 9th – 11th, 2025 at 10AM – 5PM
Venue:
Lehman Theater, MDC North Campus
11380 NW 27th Ave Room 1315, Miami, FL 33167, United States
3 Day Workshop: $300
Single Day Pass: $110
In this workshop, Rosie Herrera and Dito van Reigersberg will unpack the paradox of cabaret: its capacity to mask and reveal, seduce and confront, entertain and unravel. Through voice, movement, and text, participants will explore how spectacle and satire can become tools for excavating truth rather than hiding from it. Emphasis will be placed on performative endurance, timing, the power of persona, and the political stakes of being seen.
Drawing from their respective practices—Rosie’s lush, surreal dance theater that blends sacred and profane, and Dito’s cabaret and experimental performance work—participants will engage cabaret as a space of emotional rigor, risk-taking, and radical permission.
Whether you’re a dancer looking to expand your expressive range, a theater-maker interested in embodiment, or a cabaret artist seeking new choreographic strategies, this workshop offers a vibrant and rigorous container to explore what happens when the stage becomes a space of soft landing—and bold exposure.
Limited capacity so register now! 18 and older welcome!
ABOUT ROSIE HERRERA
Rosie Herrera is a Cuban-American choreographer and artistic director of Rosie Herrera Dance Theater in Miami. She has been commissioned by The American Dance Festival, Miami Light Project, Ballet Hispanico, Jose Limon Dance Company, New Dialect, Houston Met Dance, New World Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony Her work in film, theater, dance and cabaret has resulted in collaborations with Walter Mercado, Carlota Guerrero, Larry Keigwin, Pig Iron Theater and many more. She has received the United States Artists award, Princess Grace and Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the inaugural 2024 Knight Choreographic Fellow.
ABOUT DITO VAN REIGERSBERG
Dito van Reigersberg is a co-founder of Pig Iron Theatre Company. He has performed in almost all of Pig Iron’s productions since its founding, including the OBIE-winning original pieces Hell Meets Henry Halfway and Chekhov Lizardbrain. He also dreamed up Pig Iron’s most recent endeavor, Poor Judge, a dance-theatre cabaret based on the songs of Aimee Mann. In 2022 Dito sang in Heather Christian’s “rapturous” Oratorio for Living Things (Drama Desk, Lortel Awards, NYT Best of 2022). He has also performed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Guthrie, Oberon in Boston, NMAJH, Joe’s Pub, and City Hall. He recently sang as a featured soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nezet Seguin, and released an album of original songs entitled Lashed But Not Leashed.
Address:
Lehman Theater, MDC North Campus
11380 NW 27th Ave Room 1315, Miami, FL 33167, United States