Premiering At Sleepless Night

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2009

World & South Florida Premieres during Sleepless Night Miami Beach, FL – Spontaneous animation, invisible architecture, and a seven-storyhigh electric harp are just three of the close to 20 South Florida and world premieres featured at Audi Sleepless Night 2009. More than 150 amazing encounters to be had on the this free, 13-hour, dusk-til-dawn, citywide celebration of the arts that begins at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 7. This year’s event includes several South Florida and world premieres among the unforgettable arts and entertainment experiences presented for all tastes and all ages, all night long, all for free. COLLINS PARK NIGHT SHIFT: 9 Installations curated by Jerome Sans Meet the artists 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., DJ 10:00 p.m. - Midnight Jerome Sans will act as both a curator and DJ for the Night Shift exhibition commissioned by the Bass Museum of Art and the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council. Nine prominent South Florida artists present site-specific installations on the Collins Park lawn around the museum and east of Collins Avenue. Pieces range from the giant Earth sphere that visitors can view from the inside-out to a live, outdoor soap opera. Artists include Robert Chambers, Jim Drain, Christy Gast, Julie Kahn, Nic Lobo, Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno, Tom Scicluna, Frances Trombly, and Viking Funeral. bassmuseum.org CANAL WALK BETWEEN CARL FISHER CLUBHOUSE AND CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE Frozen Music’s “Canal” 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 a.m. Frozen Music’s premiere performance will captivate audiences with a site-specific sound installation called “Canal.” Recorded sounds from the site are reimagined into invisible architecture, transforming an often unnoticed pathway into a unique and fascinating passage. subtropics.org MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL NeoGrafik 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. Direct from Montreal’s Nuit Blanche, the artists of NeoGrafik use large, wired interactive canvases and custom built “pens” and “spray cans” to create their designs, then instantly

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digitize and project them onto a building’s surface. Watch as they transform the new façade of Beach High into a thrilling, non-destructive graffiti mural. CONVENTION CENTER HALL “D” Ray Lee’s “Siren” performance/installation Four shows: 7:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m., 1:00 a.m. Ray Lee is an artist, performer, and composer who works with electro-magnetic radiation to build large scale sound installations. Siren is a fascinating 45-minute show combining theater, sculpture, light and sound into a suspenseful, one-of-a-kind experience. Audience members move around the room, sit or stand, and lose themselves to their changing visual and aural perceptions. invisible-forces.com COLONY THEATRE (Limited seating – first come, first served) The Tweaksters 6:00 p.m. Regan Patno and Julia Snyder, The Tweaksters, are acrobats, athletes, jugglers, and dancers and they use all their talents with a good sense of humor to delight audiences of all ages. tweaksters.com Miami Light Project presents Julie Dossavi 8:00 p.m. Miami Light Project is excited to introduce South Florida to dancer/choreographer/musician Julie Dossavi. The French performer’s style is a unique blend of contemporary African dance and street culture. In a series of solos and duets, Dossavi plays with dance and music in an abstract yet seamless way. miamilightproject.com PLAZA ESPANA STAGE, ESPANOLA WAY “Remnants and Umbrellas 8-12” 9:00 p.m – 1:00 a.m. Miami Beach Cinematheque and Thought Loom present Remnants and Umbrellas 8-12, a film event that features the work of Jacques Demy and Agnes Varda. Films will be played on the Plaza de España – on strategically placed canvases, on large umbrellas throughout the space, even on palm trees outfitted with mirrors. The event honors two filmmakers who saw cinema in new ways by allowing the audience to see their films in new ways. mbcinema.com OCEAN DRIVE MAIN STAGE (between 8th + 9th Streets) Oy-Lé! 6:30 p.m. Arts Inside the Open Tent presents this convergence of klezmer and flamenco, featuring Siempre Flamenco and the Heavy Shtetl Klezmer Trio. Theopentent.org Animate Objects Physical Theater “Bounce Theory” 8:00 p.m. Animate Objects Physical Theater’s new show “Bounce Theory” combines aerial dance and athletic aerobics with Ocean Drive as the backdrop. With an electrifying pulse, Bounce Theory takes dancers to the sky in aerial hoops, trampolines, pulleys and stretchy elastic bungee cords forty feet above the sands of South Beach for a truly mesmerizing spectacle. Bounce Theory’s cast of scientists conduct gutsy experiments with disregard to gravity in an oversized physical laboratory/playground. Animate Objects Physical Theater stopped traffic at the 2007 Sleepless Night event and promises to provide an equally entertaining show this year. animateobjects.org

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Deep Surface 9:00 p.m. Composer Gabriel E. Pulido presents his “homage to the sea” with a multimedia concert that combines electronic and live music with dance and video-sculptures. This premier performance is sponsored by the Ocean Foundation and the Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. deep-surface.org South Beach Chamber Ensemble with La Guardia, Name Brand, Etagweyo Vincent Onokurte, Shri and Carlos Pintado 10:00 p.m. The South Beach Chamber Ensemble, best known for presenting “beautiful music in beautiful spaces,” enters a new kind of space with Hip Hop artist La Guardia, drum machines by Name Brand, African drummer/dancer Etagweyo Vincent Onokurte and Indian percussionist Shri. Carlos Pintado is the 2006 winner of the International Prize for Poetry Sant Jordi. sobechamberensemble.org Toni Dove’s “Spectropia” Midnight New York-based video artist Toni Dove’s stunning and acclaimed experiment in cinematic spectacle, making its Florida premiere. An interactive, feature-film hybrid of sci-fi and film noir, shown on three screens and manipulated and altered in real time by two artists at a console of laptops, cameras and laser harp. tonidove.com J-Walt’s Spontaneous Fantasia 2:00 a.m. Experience the creation of other worlds with virtual reality wizard J-Walt’s spectacular outdoor live animation performance. Soar with him through bizarre landscapes created on the spot to a score of free-form electronic music. spontaneousfantasia.com OCEAN DRIVE MASS ENSEMBLE STAGE (Lummus Park between 6th + 7th Streets) MASS Ensemble Four shows: 7:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 2:30 a.m., 6:00 a.m. This world-renowned group has literally created its own performance genre – an elegant and high-impact blend of amazing lights, music, sculpture, dance and visual art. Unique, fantastic instruments include the Earth Harp, whose strings will cross Ocean Drive to the very top of the Park Central Hotel. The full group performs the first three shows; the 6:00 a.m. show is a yoga class led by MASS member Andrea Brook and featuring the Earth Harp. Presented by Classical South Florida 89.7 FM. massensemble.com OCEAN DRIVE SHOWGROUND (between 11 + 12 streets) Industrial Teatrera “Rojo” 6:30 p.m. Riotous physical street theater from Barcelona presented by Centro Cultural Espanol. “Rojo” is an intimate clown show for all audiences, based on a poem by Palau I Fabre and on “The Red Tree” by Shau Tan. “Rojo” creates an imaginary refuge in the midst of the city. ccemiami.org Rainbow Circus presents “Dreamicus” 8:45 p.m. Producer Laurie Allen of South Florida Circus Arts School presents the debut of Rainbow Circus, featuring Judge David Young as Ringmaster and Special Guest Star Aerialist Elaine Lancaster! David Kingerly, Lori Lynch, Paul Anderson, Benjamin Antipuna and TNT, and Kriston Arrow have donated their time to create a spectacular vision of dreams and nightmares expressed through classic circus arts, including aerial tissu, corde lisse, trapeze and lyra. Elvis, Michael Jackson, hula hoop routines, drag We are committed to providing excellent public service and safety to all who live, work and play in our vibrant, tropical, historic community.

burlesque, Spiderman, contortionists and human animals are all part of a show you’ll never forget. Sfcas.com “Acts of Purpose” 10:30 p.m. Analisa Velez, 2008 YoungArts winner in theater/spoken word, presents her original dramatic piece about women who have been sexually assaulted, featuring Ms. Velez, Jasmine Cuesta, and Fiona Thompson. Youngarts.org The Dream Engine “Heliosphere” Two shows: 7:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. Spiraling and spinning and seemingly weightless, an acrobat suspended beneath a giant color-changing helium balloon explores the uncharted space between the beach and the sky. thedreamengine.co.uk Edouard Duval Carrie’s “Under the Congo Moon” moving sculptures and Ra Ra Parade Midnight – 3:00 a.m. Local Haitian artist, Edouard Duval Carrié also promises to create quite a show with the performance he is calling “Under the Congo Moon.” Duval Carrié explores the theme of migration in his artwork; for Sleepless Night, he will create several large sculptures of voodoo gods and have them “migrate” down the streets of Miami Beach in an exciting parade with music from a live band. The parade ends on Ocean Drive, where Duval Carrié, the band, and the voodoo gods stop to interact with people on the street. Sleepless Night is a sundown-to-sunrise, free arts celebration. It is produced by the City of Miami Beach Department of Tourism and Cultural Development and Cultural Arts Council in collaboration with every cultural organization in the city, together with private businesses and individuals. It offers free museum admissions, indoor and outdoor art installations and performances, architectural tours, dance (and dancing,) theater, music, film, slam poetry, fashion shows, acrobatics, comedy and other cultural offerings, all presented without admission charge at over 80 different venues spread throughout the city and the 13-hour night. Free shuttle buses with onboard arts programming connect the various zones of activity and remote parking for the duration of the event. The last Sleepless Night (2007) presented more than 130 arts and entertainment events to over 100,000 residents and visitors of all ages. “It was the best multi-genre arts event I’ve ever enjoyed here in South Florida – in over three decades!” said Ed Bell, producer and host of WLRN 91.3FM’s “South Florida Arts Beat.” “Sleepless Night will prove to be South Florida’s premiere annual arts extravaganza.” The full program is available on-line at sleeplessnight.org, and will be available in printed form at locations throughout the Greater Miami area on October 26. ### To request this material in accessible format, sign language interpreters, information on access for persons with disabilities, and/or any accommodation to review any document or participate in any city-sponsored proceeding, please contact 305-604-2489 (voice) or 305-673-7218 (TTY) five days in advance to initiate your request.

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