PERFORMANCE ARCHIVE

35+ years of live art in Miami.

Thousands of artists. Countless encounters between people, places, and ideas.

This archive looks back at the performances, experiments, collaborations, and gatherings that have shaped Live Arts Miami since 1990, and the artists and audiences who made them possible.

Take a look through the history.

2026 Miami Immersive Summit
2026 Miami Immersive Intensive
Bab L’Bluz
Cymande
Cirque Kikasse
Angeles Toledano
Sad Hours by Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre
aja monet
El Laberinto del Coco
2025 Miami Immersive Intensive
Gulf by Brigid Baker
The Gilsons
La Muchacha & Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna
Arms Around America by Dan Froot
TEDxMDC featuring Natasha Tsakos
Huang Yi & Kuka 
mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] - Gelsey Bell
Mike Tyus & Luca Renzi
Sona Jobarteh
Summon
by Shammar Watt
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
Bloom!
By Sway
Bijayini Satpathy in Abhipsaa
a-seeking
LABS
The Art of Immersive Theater
32 Sounds
by Sam Green
National Water Dance
Haint Blu
Urban Bush Women
We Call This Home
Fabian Almazan
Ocean Fillibuster
PearlDamour
Gospel Jam Sessions
Pastor Marc Cooper & Friends
Leyla McCalla
Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever
Jose Elias:
The Everglades Songbook Suite
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2025/2026

  • aja monet
  • Sad Hours by Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre
  • Angeles Toledano
  • Cymande
  • Cirque Kikasse
  • Bab L’Bluz
  • Miami Immersive Intensive
  • Miami Immersive Summit

2024/2025

  • mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] – Gelsey Bell
  • Huang Yi & Kuka
  • TEDxMDC featuring Arsimmer Mcoy, Natasha Tsakos, Daniela Padron and Miami Bloco
  • Arms Around America by Dan Froot
  • La Muchacha & Pascuala Ilabaca y Fauna
  • The Gilsons
  • Gulf by Brigid Baker
  • Miami Immersive Intensive
  • El Laberinto del Coco

2023/2024

  • Mike Tyus & Luca Renzi
  • Sona Jobarteh @Superblue Miami
  • Summon by Shammar Watt
  • Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
  • Bloom! By Sway
  • Bijayini Satpathy in Abhipsaa – a seeking
  • LABS: The Art of Immersive Theater
  • 32 Sounds by Sam Green
  • National Water Dance

2022/2023

  • Gospel Jam Sessions with Pastor Marc Cooper and Friends
  • Ocean Filibuster
  • We Call This Home by Fabian Almazan
  • Notes for Tomorrow by Sandra Portal Andreu
  • Haint Blu by Urban Bush Women

2021/2022

  • Shimmy Shift Pivot
  • Pastor Marc Cooper’s Gospel Gumbo
  • Hattie Mae Williams: Currents
  • Where home is by Juraj Kojš
  • Susan Caraballo: Prelude to 2100
  • Small Island Big Song – Live in Concert
  • 2022 Artistry In Rhythm (AIR) Dance Conference
  • CARABOOM by Natasha Tsakos
  • Everglades Songbook Suite LIVE by Jose Elias
  • Leyla McCalla – Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever

2020/2021

  • Make Your Mark Miami!
  • Ya Habibi: The Story of a Song
  • Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce… Pandemic!
  • Five Days with Step Afrika!
  • 2021 AIR Dance Conference featuring Urban Bush Women
  • EarthVerse: Darius V. Daughtry and Marnino Toussaint
  • ArticulatingClimate: Three Playwrights on the Climate Crisis
  • Charles Maimarosia & Emily Muli: Tidal Talk w/‘Small Island, Big Song’
  • Michelle Grant-Murray: RoseWater
  • Sandra Portal Andreu: CIRCA/MIA
  • Dale Andree: Such Rooted Things
  • Fereshteh Toosi: Metaphysical Hotline
  • Jose Elias: The Everglades Songbook Suite

2019/2020

  • Miwa Matreyek: This World Made Itself & Infinitely Yours
  • National Water Dance 2020
  • Houston Cypress: Embracing Land Acknowledgement
  • Josh Fox: The Truth Has Changed
  • EarthVerse: Hipólito Arriaga, Marnino Toussaint & Sashily King

2018/2019

  • Juraj Kojs: Black Queen
  • Yara Travieso: La Medea
  • Penny Arcade: The Longing Lasts Longer
  • Pioneer Winter: Dov
  • Claudio Marcotulli: Blasting Pixels
  • Niyaz: The Fourth Light
  • Marc Bamuthi Joseph: /PEH-LO-TAH/
  • The Combat Hippies: Amal
  • Noura Mint Seymali & Fatoumata Diawara
  • Ana Mendez: The Laborers
  • Adele Meyers: The Stage Show
  • Rosie Herrera: Tropical Depression

2017/2018

  • Tania El Khoury: Gardens Speak and As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
  • Sahba Motallebi & Naghmeh Farahmand
  • Cie Herve Koubi: What The Day Owes to the Night
  • Amir ElSaffar & Two Rivers Ensemble
  • Hip Hoppa Locka: Aja Black, Amirah Sackett, Cita Sadell
  • Innov Gnawa
  • Layali al-Andalus: National Arab Orchestra, Nu Flamenco, and Susana Behar

2016/2017

  • Nora Chipaumire: Portrait of Myself as My Father
  • Steve Parker: Traffic Jam
  • Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis: Trigger
  • Tomatito
  • Scott Turner Schofield: Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps
  • DJ Kid Koala: Nufonia Must Fall

2015/2016

  • The Combat Hippies: Conscience Under Fire
  • Cumbia All Stars
  • Combinado Argentino de Danza
  • Paquito D’ Rivera
  • Lars Jan: Holoscenes
  • Joan Soriano
  • Camille A. Brown: Black Girl Linguistic Play
  • Timbalive
  • Teatro Cinema: Historia de Amor

2014/2015

  • Palo!
  • Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra
  • Ira Glass, Monica Bill Barnes, Anna Bass: Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host
  • Shen Wei: Black, White & Grey
  • The Nile Project
  • Rude Mechs: Now Now Oh Now
  • BASETRACK Live
  • Taylor Ho Bynum: Acoustic Bicycle Tour
  • Combat Hippies: Conscious Under Fire
  • RUBBERBANDance Group: Empirical Quotient

2013/2014

  • Andre Mehmari
  • OLA Music Fest: Elastic Bond, Chinchillos del Caribe, Meridian Brothers & Dengue Dengue Dengue!
  • Arturo Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble & Wendy Peterson
  • The Manganiyar Seduction
  • Nora Chipaumire: Miriam
  • National Theatre of Scotland: The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
  • Sam Green & Yo La Tengo: The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Trey McIntyre Project: Mercury Half Life
  • Baloji & L’Orchestre de la Katuba
  • Live Arts Lab: Baba Israel

2012/2013

  • Nuevo Ballet Espanol: Cambio de Tercio
  • Urban Bush Women: Are We Democracy
  • Poncho Sanchez & Nicole Henry
  • Yemen Blues
  • Rennie Harris Puremovement
  • Abraham.In.Motion: Live! The Realest MC
  • Rude Mechs: The Method Gun
  • Teatro Cinema: Sin Sangre
  • Pablo Aslan Quintet
  • Live Arts Lab: Nora Chipaumire

2011/2012

  • Conor Lovett: Samuel Beckett’s First Love
  • Sofia Rei
  • Nora Chipaumire: Black Swan & Chimurenga
  • Pig Iron Theatre Company: Chekhov Lizardbrain
  • Terri Lyne Carrington
  • John Jasperse Company: Truth, Reverse Histories, Wishful Thinking and Flat Out Lies

2010/2011

  • Tania Perez-Salas Compañía de Danza
  • Culture Clash – AmeriCCA: Real People, Real Stories
  • Women of Calypso
  • Ofrenda a Borinquen
  • Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People: The Last Meadow
  • An evening with Lenine

2009/2010

  • Magos Herrera
  • Gregory Maqoma & Vuyani Dance Theater
  • Teatro en el Blanco
  • Yin Mei
  • Esperanza Spalding

2008/2009

  • Inbal Pinto Dance Company
  • Marissa Chibis
  • Michelle Ellsworth
  • Marc Bamuthi Joseph: The Living Word Project
  • Keo Woolford
  • Branford Marsalis

2007/2008

  • Spanish Harlem Orchestra
  • Camposition: The BugChasers
  • Sekou Sundiata
  • Paquito D’Rivera Quintet
  • Urban Bush Women & Compagnie Jant-Bi
  • Compagnie Thor

2006/2007

  • Kronos Quarter
  • Sol y Canto
  • Ronald K. Brown/Evidence
  • The Farber Foundry Expressions Dance Company: AMAJUBA (Like Doves We Rise)
  • McCoy Tyner

2005/2006

  • Marc Bamuthi Joseph: The Living Word Project
  • Tania Libertad and Musicians
  • Ron Carter and Musicians
  • Nejla Y. Yatkin
  • Dan Froot
  • Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India

2004/2005

  • Flamenco in the Sun
  • Emeline Michel & Musicians
  • Giovanni Luquini Performance Troupe
  • Cuban Cinema Series
  • Daniel Bernard Roumain
  • 33 Fainting Spells
  • Peggy Shaw
  • Roy Haynes

2003/2004

  • Festival of Alternative Cuban Cinema: Ernesto Fundora, Jorge Dalton, Manuel Marcel, Esther Mari­a Hernandez
  • Sacred Voices: A Sung Panel: Lakshmi Shankar, Vincent Stringer, Karen Jones, Geshe Lobsang Tenzin
  • Lila Downs
  • Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel, Noble Douglas Dance Company, Black Umfolosi:
  • Black Burlesque (revisited)
  • Shen Wei Dance Arts
  • FAGAALA: Jant-Bi & Kota Yamazaki

2002/2003

  • Miguel Poveda
  • Teatro Hugo & Ines
  • Plena Libre
  • Sekou Sundiata Andrea Woods/Souloworks
  • Inbal Pinto
  • Teatro Avante

2001/2002

  • Giovanni Luquini and Dancers
  • ReBirth Brass Band
  • Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
  • Lila Downs
  • Miranda July
  • Din A 13
  • Pia Fraus

2000/2001

  • Joe Goode Performance Group
  • Craig Harris & Sekou Sundiata
  • Grupo Corpo
  • Lisa Kron
  • Paul Bonin-Rodri­guez
  • David Calle, Danilo Perez & the Motherland Project
  • Teatro Avante
  • Teatro Taller de Colombia

1999/2000

  • Ife-Ile
  • Ronald K. Brown/Evidence & Cheryl Boyce Davies
  • Regina Carter
  • H*ART*CHAOS
  • Nrityagram Dance Ensemble
  • Toni Blackman & Freestyle
  • Union
  • Sekou Sundiata
  • Cornisa 20

1998/1999

  • Inroads The Americas: Danilo Perez, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Alberto Antonio Araiza, Danny Zaldivar, Quasar, Joe Chevala and the Flying Foot Forum, Mono Blanco, 33 Fainting Spells, Eiko and Koma, Teatro Avante, Prometeo, Teatro de Los Andes, Astrid Hadad, Teatro del Sur
  • Philip Glass & Robert Wilson
  • Eliane Elias
  • Gypsy Caravan
  • Chen & Dancers
  • Trimpin
  • Compani­a de Margallo

1997/1998

  • Susan Sontag & Min Tanaka Moscow Conservatory
  • Tania Leon & Bebe Miller: Drummin
  • Patricia Hoffbauer & George Emilio Sanchez
  • Sibikwa Players
  • Mickee Fault
  • Tharp!
  • John Kelly and Company Teatro San Martin

1996/1997

  • Carpetbag Theatre
  • Pat Graney Company
  • Chico Farrill & the Afro Cuban Jazz Orchestra
  • Dance Africa: Soweto Street Beat, Ballet Folclorico de Bahia, Urban Bush Women, Rennie Harris
  • Ravi Shankar

1995/1996

  • Dance Africa: Júlio T. Leitão and Batotu Yetu, Ile Aiye, Urban Bush Women, Hermanos Ayala, Kolekson Kazak
  • Chichen-Itza Suite
  • Wim Vandekeybus & Ultima Vez
  • Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane
  • Eiko & Koma
  • David Rousseve/Reality
  • San Sebastian

1994/1995

  • Yacub Addy & Odadaa!
  • Manno Charlemagne
  • National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica
  • Marco Rizo
  • Chen & Dancers
  • Alexander Bălănescu & the Bălănescu Quartet
  • John Kelly and Company
  • La Troppa

1993/1994

  • Farafina
  • Michael Riessler & Frank Koellges
  • Stewart Copeland
  • Ellen Sabastian & The M Ensemble
  • Carpetbag Theatre
  • Donald Byrd/The Group
  • Ali Akbar Khan
  • Teatro del Sur

1992/1993

  • Carbone 14
  • Matthew Owens
  • La Hojarasca
  • Susan Marshall & Company
  • Claire Bloom & Alla Damidova
  • Randy Warshaw Dance Co.
  • Alberto Felix Alberto
  • Marku Ribas & Kolekson Kazak
  • Yma Sumac

1991/1992

  • Rosas Dance Company
  • Urban Bush Women
  • Randy Warshaw Dance Company
  • Stuart Pimsler Dance Company Diquis Tiquis Dance Company
  • Mario Bauza & the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra
  • John Kelly & Company
  • Jamey Aebersold
  • Astrud Gilberto
  • Ralph Lemon Dance Company
  • Los Angeles Poverty Department

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