Fuerza Bruta Miami Press

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.