Dance NOW! Miami Will Showcase BRIDGES NOT WALLS This Month

Bridges NOT Walls addresses political struggles that have divided America, and the world. With its stirring and provocative focus on differences and commonalities, migration and immigration, communication and silences, it is a universal and also achingly specific work. Choreographed by Dance NOW! Miami Artistic Directors Hannah Baumgarten and Diego Salterini, it also includes original video art by South Florida-based Francisco Javier Moraga Escalona, and a compelling musical score. Bridges NOT Walls had its original world premiere in Miami and evolved through residencies and performances in Mexico with the Mexico City Ballet/Compañia de Danza Clásica Quintana Roo, and in Italy with Opus Ballet.

Program II will also include the world premiere of Baumgarten's 1933 which tells the story of a group of performers facing the rise of the fascist Nazi regime. In addition, the evening will also feature company repertory piece, Strings of Goodbye, a duet from Salterini, and West Coast choreographer Tandy Beal's Forest Dreams, as part of DNM's Masterpiece in Motion series. “As artists we cannot help but be engaged with the world we live in,” says Baumgarten. “Even as raising our voices becomes ever more perilous, speaking up in the vocabulary of contemporary dance is second nature to us.”