Fuerza Bruta Miami Press

FINAL WEEKS!! SHOW MUST CLOSE AUG 9^th

International Smash Hit FUERZA BRUTA Sets House Record For
Longest-Running Theatrical Performance At The Adrienne Arsht Center

Special Limited Edition Fuerza Bruta Party Pack DISCOUNT
Offered in Celebration of a Successful Run

MIAMI, FL July 16, 2009 – With the addition of a second extension, FUERZA BRUTA has broken the house record for the longest-running show at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. This will be the final extension as the show is scheduled to open in Mexico in September and must close in Miami on August 9.

To celebrate the success of the run, a special FUERZA BRUTA Party Pack promotion is being offered.  The package includes a $40 discount on four tickets plus four sets of special, Fuerza Bruta merchandise valued at $128. Details are available at www.fuerzabrutamiami.com.

“We are thrilled to extend our run and have Fuerza Bruta break the house record at the Adrienne Arsht Center,” said Michael Cohl Chairman of S2BN Entertainment, the Miami-based entertainment company that is producing the show. “There has been an incredible response.”

“The buzz surrounding Fuerza Bruta is infectious,” said M. John Richard, president and CEO of the Adrienne Arsht Center. “Miami has embraced this exhilarating production with tremendous fervor, making it one of the highest-grossing shows in the Center’s three-year history. Thanks to our partnership with S2BN Entertainment and Ozono Productions, more than 25,000 people will have enjoyed the thrill of Fuerza Bruta for the first time!.”

Before coming to Miami, FUERZA BRUTA’s touring company played major cities worldwide including New York, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, London, Cordoba, Bogota, Edinburgh, Berlin, Mexico, and Sao Paulo to high critical acclaim. Fuerza Bruta also has a company in New York that is currently performing their second blockbuster year.

Free from the confines of spoken language and conventional theater, FUERZA BRUTA has become the “go-to” theatrical experience for edgy non-stop entertainment.

SHOW TIMES & TICKET PRICES

Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays at 7:30 p.m.; and Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 and 10 p.m.  Single ticket prices are $63.75 and $73.75 including a $3.75 facility fee.

Tickets can be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office at 305.949.6722 or online at www.arshtcenter.org. Groups of 15 or more, please contact 786.468.2326.

For more information and video clips please visit www.fuerzabruta.net.

ABOUT FUERZA BRUTA

FUERZA BRUTA is an event where worlds collide and reality takes a back seat. This heart-pounding theatrical experience takes place completely on the Lynn Wolfson stage and begins the moment audiences walk in through the Center’s loading dock (dubbed the “Media Dock”) into the G-Lounge – a hip urban space, alive with heart-pounding club music directed by Miami’s best DJs, multimedia art installations created by local artists, and a signature Barton G. food and beverage experience.

At show time, audiences are ushered onto the main stage where they are engulfed in a 360 degree spectacle featuring mind-blowing visual effects just inches above the audience that must be seen to be believed – a man running full throttle on a giant treadmill, bursting through a series of moving walls; performers suspended in mid-air surrounded by a vast sea of mylar; and gorgeous women twisting ethereally in a lucite pool above the audience.  Argentinean creative genius Diqui James, one of the creators of the smash hit show De La Guarda, created original scenes and magnificent customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement.

As the performance winds down, the visual and aural party continues in the G-Lounge. The pre- and post-party lounge is open to the general public.

FUERZA BRUTA premiered in Buenos Aires in 2005 and has been seen in Lisbon (2006), London (2006), Buenos Aires (2006), Bogota (2007) and at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2007), where it earned critical praise and was honored with the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel award for “the biggest and best show on the Fringe – the must see event of 2007” (The Herald). In October 2007, FUERZA BRUTA debuted at New York City’s Daryl Roth Theatre where De La Guarda had played a smashing six-year off-Broadway run. The New York engagement has attracted unprecedented national media attention and quickly extended its run due to overwhelming demand.

Celebrity followers of James’ De La Guarda included Leonardo DiCaprio, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, Cameron Diaz, Sting, Britney Spears, Harrison Ford, Tyra Banks, Robert DeNiro, Catherine Zeta Jones, Sandra Bullock, Lucy Liu, Demi Moore and Drew Barrymore among others.

Celebrities who have visited the NYC or Miami production of Fuerza Bruta include, Lil Wayne, Jessica Alba, Fergie, Beyonce, Rachel McAdams, Jude Law, John Legend, Tyra Banks, Shakira, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams and Serena Williams.

FUERZA BRUTA was created by Diqui James (De La Guarda Co-founder/Co-creator); Gaby Kerpel (De La Guarda Composer/Musical Director); Alejandro Garcia (De La Guarda Technical Director) and Fabio Daquila (De La Guarda Production Supervisor).

For more information, photos, music, video clips, media reviews and more please visit www.fuerzabruta.net.

FUERZA BRUTA is presented in Miami by the Adrienne Arsht Center, S2BN Entertainment and Ozono Productions. The Miami production is sponsored in part by the Opera Suites and Marina. The Miami New Times is the official media sponsor of the Miami production.

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is made possible by the public support of the Miami-Dade County Mayor and the Board of County Commissioners, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council. Education & Outreach is funded in part by The Children’s Trust. The Adrienne Arsht Center also receives generous support from private and corporate contributions to the Performing Arts Center Foundation of Greater Miami Inc. through its Visionary Society Membership Program and Major Gifts Program; City of Miami Omni Community Redevelopment Agency; American Express Company; Arison Arts Foundation; Dade Community Foundation; ExxonMobil Inter-America Inc.; Funding Arts Network; Southern Arts Federation; The MAP-Fund, a program of Creative Capital, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council; the National Endowment for the Arts; and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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About Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is Miami-Dade County’s largest ever public/private-sector partnership, comprised of an $150 million private capital campaign conducted by the Performing Arts Center Foundation and public funding drawn primarily from the County’s Convention Development Tax revenues, as well as the City of Miami Omni Redevelopment District Community Redevelopment Agency. Greatly enhancing the artistic and educational opportunities in South Florida, the Adrienne Arsht Center will have significant and long-term economic benefits for the city and the region.

The Adrienne Arsht Center, designed by the world-renowned architect Cesar Pelli of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, includes the 2,400-seat Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House, the 2,200-seat Knight Concert Hall, a 200-seat black box Carnival Studio Theater, the Peacock Education Center, a restored Art Deco Tower, and the Parker and Vann Thomson Plaza for the Arts, which unites the Center buildings across Biscayne Boulevard, providing a magnificent setting for outdoor entertainment and informal gatherings. The key members of the design team include theater planning and design consultant Joshua Dachs of Fisher Dachs Associates, Inc. and acoustician Russell Johnson of ARTEC, Inc., both of whom worked of the project since its inception.

The Adrienne Arsht Center is a Miami venue not only for its four resident companies (Florida Grand Opera, Miami City Ballet, and New World Symphony), but also for many smaller South Florida arts organizations that will perform in its theaters on a regular basis, as well as for the finest popular and classical performances from around the world. With state-of-the-art performance facilities in Miami for the first time, the Adrienne Arsht Center offers South Florida audiences the best and most diverse theater, music, and dance – with a dedication to entertain, challenge and educate all segments of the community. For more information, visit www.arshtcenter.org.

About S2BN Entertainment

S2BN Entertainment is a diversified international family show and event entertainment company specializing in the acquisition, development and production of high caliber touring exhibitions, unique live music tours and events, theatrical performances, and consumer and multimedia product offerings. Our experienced management team executes activities across all types of global venues – from stadiums to theaters. S2BN Entertainment delivers solid profitability while providing extraordinary experiences for our clients and our customers.

About Ozono Producciones SRL

Ozono Producciones SRL is an Argentinean company devoted to the production & promotion of live shows and events, artists, TV and radio shows. Ozono’s members were pioneers in show business in Argentina. In recent years, Ozono has carried out the integral production of local shows, like Fuerza Bruta, which has already been staged in various cities around the world such as New York, London, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Berlin, Bogota, Sao Paulo and Mexico City. The success of our international concerts, festivals, musicals, plays and family events are the result of a professional and enthusiastic hard working team.

MEDIA CONTACTS:
Zakarin Public Relations
Destiny Spang
destiny@zakarinpr.com
305.372.2502

S2BN Entertainment
Caren Bell
cbell@S2BNEnt.com
305.604.8071

Suzette Espinosa Fuentes
Sespinosa@arshtcenter.org
786.468.2221

The Miami production of Fuerza Bruta will stretch the Arsht Center’s production skills and the show’s concept of enveloping audiences in a mind-bending environment. Instead of starting and ending the fun with Fuerza, the center hopes to further entice audiences with an art-filled entry and in-house nightclub.

Just mounting Fuerza Bruta in Miami is a significant challenge for the center’s production staff. To trim costs, most of the show’s machinery and set pieces are being built in Miami, so that only two cargo containers, instead of the usual seven, will be needed to ship the production from Argentina.

The elaborate production isn’t only on stage. It also will surround audiences from the entrance to the Barton G-designed Fuerza Lounge around the performance area. The idea is to extend the show’s atmosphere into a full night out. When Scott Shiller, the center’s executive vice president, saw De La Guarda, the predecessor to Fuerza Bruta, in New York, he was so excited he didn’t want to leave.

Call it theater of the surreal … made spectacularly and disorientingly real: Women romping overhead in a pool of water. A man on a treadmill, crashing through walls and rooms as if the world were rushing past him. People dancing in tiny rooms until their flying limbs shatter the walls.

All that wildness happens in Fuerza Bruta (Spanish for Brute Force), the Argentine spectacle that will transform the Ziff Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts into a theatrical funhouse beginning Tuesday, June 9.

For the show’s creators, action is all. They dispense with script, story, words and any conventional sense of meaning to create a theater of the senses, simultaneously high impact and high concept.

A night at Barton G Lounge

Miami has a new reason to dance the night away:  The G Lounge by Barton G is otherworldly, swirling with bright lights and pulsing music. However this downtown haven is only temporary.

The run of Fuerza Bruta at the Adriennne Arsht Center ends next month. It’s expensive as hell — $75 per ticket — but you shouldn’t miss it.

Being in a dance club will never feel the same after you attend this show.

Every time you have had a few drinks, you will recall the plexiglass swimming pool descending so close you can touch it. The beautiful women dancing horizontally high in the air will come back to you after that third tequila. You’ll even feel the smashing styrofoam on peoples’ heads even though you’re just leaning against a post.

This is touch it, feel it theater the like of which you will rarely see. The runs ends August 2. Call now.

The Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami has just announced a new deal for discount tickets to the show Fuerza Bruta.

You can get $10 off your tickets to Fuerza Bruta on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. To get your discounted tickets, click here and enter promo code FUERZAFACE. You can also call to use the promo code, 305-949-6722

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INTERNATIONAL SMASH HIT
FUERZA BRUTA
EXTENDS RUN DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND

Tickets on Sale to August 2, 2009

“THRILLING…A MENTALLY AND SENSUALLY INVIGORATING
EXPERIENCE!” – Miami Herald

“EXPLOSION OF A SHOW!” – CBS4

“OUT OF THIS WORLD!” - Univision

MIAMI, FL June 25, 2009 – In response to the overwhelming audience reaction to FUERZA BRUTA, the show will extend through August 2 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.  Originally it was scheduled for a four-week run through July 5.

“Miami has embraced Fuerza Bruta with such enthusiasm that we’ve responded by extending our stay in this great city,” said Michael Cohl, Chairman of S2BN Entertainment, the Miami-based entertainment company that is producing the show.  “Fuerza Bruta has generated a huge buzz and has quickly become the hot ticket for the summer.”

Back in the day, people took hallucinogenic drugs to blow their minds. Now you can simply go to the Adrienne Arsht Center to see Fuerza Bruta.

A few days ago, 400 of us stood in a huge dark room being pounded by the brute force of music, strobe lights, clouds, and confetti.

Screaming dancers ran across a pulsating wall, then young women began swimming above us, close enough to touch. They call their show, ”hypnotic, exotic, and aquatic.” It’s all that and more.

Go to ArshtCenter.com or call 305-949-6722 for details

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New blocks of tickets that were previously held as production holds have now been released for all Fuerza Bruta performances at the Adrienne Arsht Center.  In addition, a limited number of $20 rush tickets will be available nightly beginning one hour prior to each performance.

“The show’s extraordinary energy and international popularity has already created a buzz throughout the community. People are experiencing the Center in a totally new way – from the entrance through the loading dock and unprecedented on stage access to the pre- and post-show action in Barton G.’s G-Lounge, said John Richard, President And CEO of the Center.

GINA H. says FUERZA BRUTA MOVED ME in a way that NOTHING in my life before has moved me (other than the birth of my children). Yes…it was up there, it comes close to the birth of my children in the measure of emotion it evoked in me.  I thought to myself “THIS IS ART!”. Read more…

Denise F. says If you’ve ever felt moved by witnessing a work of art, you know that there is no limit to the impact that art can have on your emotions, your psyche, and the way that you think about your life. Fuerza Bruta is not only a work of art, it’s a movement. Read more…

jen r. says…everyone was dancing, jumping, smiling, laughing, overall in awe! the show goes on above you, across from you, in front of you, next to you, and mainly inside of you.  i was floating on cloud 9, then fearful, then curious, then excited, then anxious. didnt know what to think and feel next and before i knew it i was overwhelmed with so much i wanted to be a part of it! Read more…

Jocelyn T. says It’s a show, art, dance, and it has a club-like atmosphere, where the actors and the audience are like one and the same. Read more…

Melissa R. says This show was incredible! The Barton G lounge had great drinks and appetizers. The set up is like a club atmosphere but better. I highly recommend this show for anyone that loves music and dancing. Read more…

Star rapper Lil Wayne made a surprise stop at the Argentine spectacle Fuerza Bruta at the Adrienne Arsht Center on Saturday night.

Fuerza Bruta is rocking the Arsht Center this month. Tickets are usually around $60 each but the good folks just introduced a special block of Rush tickets. This is how it works:

We’ve set aside 20 “rush tickets” for each show, on sale for just $20 each! For a chance to purchase these specially priced tickets, you must enter the “rush ticket lottery” starting 60 minutes before each show. At a half-hour before show time, the names of the 10 people eligible to purchase “rush tickets” for that performance will be drawn at random.

“Rush tickets” are available in person only at the box office and must be purchased with cash.

What to do during that 60 minutes before the show? You could have nitrogen cocktails at the Barton G-designed G lounge.

We humans are natural dancers. Dances can be celebrations, or for praise, or for an audience – or just a simple act of letting the rhythm move your body. Dancers can communicate ideas, preserve cultural identities, strengthen social bonds, or just have a lot of fun. Collected here are recent photographs of us, human beings around the world, professional and amateur, in motion for all of the reasons above and more.

Fuerza Bruta, that surreal entertainment event unfolding almost nightly on the Ziff Ballet Opera House stage at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, is packing in the hands-on club-going types who normally wouldn’t be caught dead going to the hoity-toity stuff they think of as theater.  The Arsht is again reaching out to that new young audience by releasing a new block of tickets and offering a limited number of $20 rush tickets an hour before each performance.

Performances of Fuerza Bruta, which runs through July 5, are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, with 10 p.m. late shows on Friday and Saturday.  Experiencing the production is different in myriad ways: You enter through the Opera House loading docks, chill out before and after with music, drinks and food in the G-Lounge, then get taken onto the stage where you stand, gawk, move around and occasionally brush up against the action for an hour.

Regular tickets are priced at $63.75 and $73.75.  The Arsht is located at 1300 Biscayne Blvd., but you enter through the loading docks on NE 14th St.  For info, call 305-949-6722, or visit the Arsht Center or Fuerza Bruta web sites.

When you get your ticket for Fuerza Bruta, the show coming to the Arsht Center in Miami beginning June 9, don’t worry about getting a good seat. You won’t be getting a seat at all. You also won’t have to dress up. And you won’t have to bother with the lobby; you’ll be entering through the loading dock.

As you might have guessed, Fuerza Bruta is not your run of the mill show.

Concebido como un espectáculo original y único, Fuerza bruta, que se presenta en el Adrianne Arsht Center, es a un mismo tiempo dinamismo, interacción y un derroche de emociones sin par, que dispara la adrenalina tanto en los actores como a la audiencia, que queda deslumbrada y extasiada con un ágil programa de una hora de incesantes sorpresas.

Concebido por Diqui James, director artístico y Gaby Kerpel, encargado éste último de crear la música, que resulta acelerada y acogedora, acorde al ritmo que demanda el show, el espectáculo tuvo su estreno en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en el 2005. Desde entonces, Fuerza bruta ha cosechado éxitos en Argentina, Colombia y Brasil, así como en ciudades como Londres, Lisboa, Nueva York y ahora en Miami, donde también está dejando su huella.

Fuerza Bruta held a press conference on Wednesday, June 10 to introduce their mind-bending show at the Arsht Center. We were treated to a sneak peek of the multi-sensory explosion and I can tell you, this is one sexy and spectacular show sure to bring in young audiences to experience this mix between aerial theater and a late-night rave.

Fuerza Bruta, officially opening June 11 and playing through July 5, brings a blend sensuality, acrobats, heart-pounding music and dream-like sequences to the Lynn Wolfson Stage at the Ziff Ballet Opera House.

Fuerza Bruta may mean Brute Force. But the show that opened at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday night is more surreal wonderland than bruising attack, a fabulously disorienting trip to a watery world where life rushes at you from all sides.

Currently, the Lynn Wolfson Stage inside the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House in Miami has been transformed to house an undulating production of the international hit, Fuerza Bruta, that plays now through July 5th.

Space-age cocktails. Hypnotic lights. Dancing up the walls (literally).

When you go out, you go all out.

So it’s nice to know that there’s a party that shares your enthusiasm… it’s called G Lounge at Fuerza Bruta.

Fuerza Bruta isn’t showing in the Arsht Center’s concert hall. Nor is it being held in the studio theater. To get there, you pass the Ziff Ballet Opera House’s front, continue around the side, and walk through a loading dock that leads to the backstage area.

Nothing I can say can prepare you for Fuerza Bruta. The photographs do not remotely do it justice. I cannot encourage you to go any more strongly. This was one of the most fantastic, sexiest, energetic, creative, original shows I have ever been to in my life. One warning, wear sneakers, not sandals, not heels, not dress shoes.

Rather than try to sort through all the photos to pick the best, I am just going to throw most of them up. Taking time from when I should be posting upcoming events or working on Life Is Art. But, I cannot stress to you enough how incredible Fuerza Bruta really is.

We’ve introduced you to a complicated world.

A place where wine glasses never break, you can practice your chip shot with an umbrella and smoothies and teriyaki live together in harmony.

It’s all adequate preparation for what we’re poised to bring you today: the G Lounge at Fuerza Bruta, a nightclub so astonishingly futuristic, it can only be open temporarily.

Orchestrated by the city’s master envelope-pusher, Barton G, the Lounge is what you’d find if Willy Wonka and Mad Max opened a club together and decided to make liquid nitrogen the main cocktail ingredient. Sort of like a post-apocalyptic watering hole, the cavernous space is all graffiti-ed up and outfitted in cinder-block seating, with a bar slapped together from hurricane shutters. And instead of martini shakers behind the bar, you’re treated to stainless steel drums and plastic tubing, which lead to glass cases of smoky, sci-fi concoctions like frozen tequila shots and chocolate bananas on a stick (BYO hammer).

Naturally, it would be impossible to sustain this level of nightlife weirdness full-time, so the lounge is only open before and after performances of Fuerza Bruta, a trippy experimental dance mind-bender. After the show, you’ll want to extend the dreamy visual mélange with dystopian-punk drinks like the Megavolt and the Nitro Cosmo.

So much better than the Nitrotini.

The Adrienne Arsht Center and event producer Barton G. created a pop-up lounge inspired by the theater’s current production.

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County celebrated the opening night of its new show, Fuerza Bruta, last night with more than 700 people. The center worked with event producer Barton G. Weiss of Barton G., the venue’s exclusive caterer, to create the G Lounge pop-up nightclub in conjunction with the show, making it the largest production of Fuerza Bruta in North America.

“Fuerza Bruta has toured around the world, in New York, Brazil, Mexico, London, and we really wanted to do something unique and make it a Miami experience,” said the center’s executive vice president, Scott Shiller. “All of the energy and the aerobatics that are happening on stage are extended into the lounge, where [after the show] audiences are geared up and ready to party.”

En un verdadero juego de pasiones, sentimientos, expresiones corporales y emocionales, Fuerza Bruta es un espectáculo de los mejores. Va más alla de cualquier teatro experimental, es un show completamente probado en su éxito.
El Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, en Miami, acogió a Fuerza Bruta como un buen inicio de la temporada de verano. El estreno en el sur de la Florida tuvo una impresionante acogida como hacía tiempo no se veía en la comunidad. Y, sin lugar a dudas, el éxito era de esperar pues es una obra que ni siquiera requiere palabras para expresar los múltiples mensajes.

Según John Richard, presidente y CEO del Adrienne Arsht Center, Fuerza Bruta estreceme al público por ser un espectáculo de vanguardia. A partir del 9 de junio, el escenario Lynn Wolfson se transforma en un verdadero mundo de bailarines que vuelan, latidos vibrantes de la música, sueños que no parecen concretarse por parte de sus protagonistas quienes luchan en un mundo feroz, y la mejor atracción,la piscina multidimensional encima de las cabezas de los asistentes.

Originally published at: http://www.miamiartzine.com/vol4/issue88/hotshot.htm

It’s been nearly a week since we’ve seen Fuerza Bruta, the unique show now at the Arsht Center, and we’ve heard some interesting reactions. One friend said he was “gobsmacked” by what he saw; another said gleefully declared the show “a slap in the face.” Yet several rather hip friends said that they didn’t get it, that maybe they were just too old for Fuerza Bruta. Opinions are diverse, but just about everyone we heard from said they were glad they had the experience of watching women play water nymphs in a transparent pool above the audience’s heads, or watch performers do their frenzied scaffold dances. And then of course there’s the Running Man, dressed in white, running to or from…something…but what? Whether or not Fuerza Bruta leaves you feeling old or “gobsmacked”, one thing’s for sure—you’ll have a lot to talk about, and think about.

Originally published on: http://cbs4.com/local/Fuerza.Bruta.Miami.2.1038883.html

The surreal interactive music and dance show, Fuerza Bruta, will thrill South Florida audiences with its cutting edge performance starting this weekend. Having already wowed audiences in New York, London, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil, the show takes the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts on June 11th for a limited 4-week engagement.

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is thrilled to have the Miami premiere of the international hit FUERZA BRUTA, a non-stop collision of dynamic music, jaw-dropping acrobatics, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery that resembles nothing less than a fantastic mash-up between aerial theater and a late-night dance party.

The Lynn Wolfson Stage inside of the Adrienne Arsht Center’s Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House has been transformed into an alternate universe with flying dancers, pumping beats, engaging dream sequences and a multidimensional swimming pool above the heads of the audience.

Breaking free from the confines of spoken language and theatrical convention, FUERZA BRUTA is an event where worlds collide and reality takes a back seat. This heart-pounding theatrical experience takes place completely on the Lynn Wolfson stage and begins the moment audiences walk in through the Center’s loading dock (dubbed the “Media Dock”) into the FUERZA BRUTA lounge – a hip urban space alive with heart-pounding club music directed by Miami’s best DJs, multimedia art installations created by local artists, and a signature Barton G. restaurant inspired by the show.

Call it theater of the surreal, made spectacularly and disorientingly real: women romping overhead in a pool of water; a man on a treadmill, crashing through walls and rooms as if the world were rushing past him; people dancing in tiny rooms until their flying limbs shatter the walls.

All that wildness happens in Fuerza Bruta (Spanish for “Brute Force”), the Argentine spectacle that will transform the Ziff Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts into a theatrical funhouse.

HAVING ALREADY WOWED AUDIENCES IN NEW YORK, LONDON, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA AND BRAZIL
FUERZA BRUTA ARRIVES IN MIAMI HEADLINING THE ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER’S 2009 SUMMER SEASON

“A dazzling blend of erotic, hypnotic, aquatic! Undeniably spectacular!”
-New York Post

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County announced the Miami premiere of the international hit FUERZA BRUTA, a non-stop collision of dynamic music, jaw-dropping acrobatics, visceral emotion, and kinetic aerial imagery that resembles nothing less than a fantastic mash-up between aerial theater and a late-night dance party.

Now here’s a buy one, get one free deal we can get behind: Buy one ticket to a show at the Adrienne Arsht Center and get one free.

The deal is available only in person at the center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 4. It’s good for selected performances of three summer shows: Fuerza Bruta (June 9, 10, 11 and 14), Celia: The Life and Music of Celia Cruz (June 2,3,4) and Summer Shorts (May 28, 29 and 31).

While you’re there buying tickets, drop by Family Fest, a free monthly event for the whole family, from 11:30 am. to 1:30 p.m. This week’s activities include Didgeridoo Down Under, Matthew Sabatella and the Rambling String Band sing-a-long, Spanglish Wrangler, Steve Gryb the Pied Piper of Percussion and Rhythm City Dj Skool. Plus, kids can try out orchestra instruments and make their own musical crafts.