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NEWS
Pioneer Winter Collective premieres
APOLLO
April 25-26, 2025
Photo by Passion Ward (December 2024).
What: World Premiere of Apollo by Pioneer Winter Collective
When: Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Where: Miami Theater Center - Mainstage
Tickets are now live for Apollo! On April 25-26, witness the powerful intergenerational reckoning of Apollo.
Apollo is a dance-theater work exploring intergenerational queer dynamics, memory, HIV/AIDS, and legacy. This biomythography uses dance-theater to delve into the intersection of personal history, cultural memory, and mythology.
Apollo centers on legacy, connection, and features bodies and voices that are left out of the canon. It also confronts ageism and reimagines who gets to be seen and celebrated on-stage. At the heart of our work is a profound exploration of the human body. The work we create expands what dance can be, so bodies survive, thrive, and are witnessed. The effects of constant erasure based on race, body type, age, gender, and ability are evident - and this goes for both the artists as well as the audience.
You won’t want to miss our most deeply personal and urgent work to date. Along with Miami Light Project, Apollo is co-presented with FUNDarte as part of Out (Loud) in the Tropics.
Pioneer Winter Collective Presents MISS ENFRANCHISED by Andréa Labbée As Part of Creative Connections 2024
What: Performance of Miss Enfranchised conceived and performed by Andréa Labbée
When: Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Where: Miami Theater Center (in the storefront studio adjacent to the main entrance)
RSVP is strongly encouraged. Email production@pioneerwinter.com to reserve your seat.
Miss Enfranchised is a solo performance conceived and performed by Andréa Labbée depicting a journey unimagined: from normalcy and love into a descending spiral of addiction and loneliness. Then, miraculously, a rebirth into transformation and personal growth expressed through movement, music and storytelling.
“It was a cathartic challenge for me creating this piece. There has always been a soundtrack to my life, even in the wasteland of homelessness and addiction. Being transparent and vulnerable enough to depict the stages of my life - good, not so good - with authentic movement and song was, at times, scary and painful.
This is my gift to myself. My earlier life as a professional dancer was driven, structural, and decorative. I truly tried to go another way with this solo: fluid, expressive, and smeared with a little dirt and blood.
May this creation serve not only to entertain, but inspire and resonate with any of you who struggle with feeling discarded and forgotten, so that you, too, can discover the best, most resilient version of yourself, and bloom.”
About PWC’s Creative Connections Program: Launched by Pioneer Winter in 2022, Creative Connections (CC) is professional development and artist accelerator program to support the unique artistic interests and creative endeavors of PWC company members. Each participating artist receives a stipend and administrative support to enact a project (performance, class or series of workshops, panel discussion, community gathering, film, etc.) that furthers their artistic and professional growth. To-date CC projects have invested $40,000 in direct artist support, serving as an accelerator for artists to iterate upon and monetize their CC ideas. To date, CC has hosted 2 cohorts of 8 artists and has seeded ongoing paid teaching gigs, international film festival premieres, and choreography commissions. PWC is currently hosting its 3rd Creative Connections cohort through which Andréa Labbée has created Miss Enfranchised.
Pioneer Winter Collective presents GRASS STAINS 2024
Hosted at Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
Since 2016, the Pioneer Winter Collective has produced Grass Stains, a unique site-specific initiative. The 2024 edition hosted at Vizcaya Museum & Gardens aims to explore the creation of collaborative, site-driven art. To achieve this, Pioneer Winter Collective invites 15 local artists to engage in a week-long experimental lab at Vizcaya, facilitated by New York-based choreographer and director, Gabri Christa. This initiative is designed as a communal lab, where the primary goal is to collectively explore and produce interdisciplinary site-specific works under the guidance of Artist Mentor Gabri Christa.
We invite you to a culminating group performance on Saturday, May 25, 2024 from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm at Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. As you explore the grounds, you encounter the Artist's site-specific works live. To best experience, and in the spirit of discovery, the Artists invite you to bring your smart device to enjoy opportunities to dive deeper. Much of the event takes place outdoors, so dress comfortably and bring an umbrella.
This year’s participating artists include:
Reshma Anwar
Iman Clark
Brigette Cormier
Aeon De La Cruz
Destiny Diaz
Junior Domingos
Stephanie Franco
Erika Loyola
Hector Machado
Barbara Caridad Meulener
Najja Moon
Nicole Pedraza
Chachi Perez
Carlos Realegeno
Alexander Zastera
For information about Pioneer Winter Collective and the Grass Stains program, please visit www.pioneerwinter.com/grass-stains.
Pioneer Winter Collective brings Ten Years from now: Duets, Reimagined to the sandrell Rivers Theater
March 2024
2 Free Workshops Starting up - Miami-Dade and broward county
as part of Pioneer winter collective’s creative connections program
PWC at apap 2023 in NYC - showcasing excerpts from Birds of Paradise
We had a blast making our NYC debut at APAP in January! We were so excited to share our work outside Miami.We performed excerpts from the new chapter in our transmedia performance series, Birds of Paradise. We had two wonderful showings - Thursday, January 12th at New York City Center (Studio 5) and Friday, January 13th at Ailey Citigroup Theater.
Under the Electric Tree: Closer Encounters at Griffing Park
Pioneer Winter x Juraj Kojš
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 7:30 pm Seating | 8:00 pm Show
“Birds of Paradise” at the Miami Dade County Auditorium
May 13 & 14 at 8:00 PM
“Birds of Paradise” Afterglow FREE WORkshops
February 2 & April 13 at 6:00 pm
the world premiere of “birds of paradise”
September 16-19, 2021 at the adrienne arsht Center for the performing arts
A Night of New Work: Celebrating Miami’s Performing Artists (An EVENT by Knight Foundation and The New Tropic)
Pioneer Winter is thrilled to join the Knight Foundation and The New Tropic for "A Night of New Work: Celebrating Miami's Performing Artists" on Friday, April 30 at 6 p.m. ET.
A panel discussion with PW and artists Carmen Pelaez and Portia Dunkley will focus on the resilience of performing artists and long-term challenges and opportunities, moderated by Adam Ganuza. The virtual event will also highlight the winners of the Knight New Work 2020 initiative and will showcase videos of projects by the Knight New Work 2018 winners.
RSVP here!
Nothing But Love: Creative Process and Catharsis (An Arsht Center Artist in Residence Series)
Dance Like Your Life Depends On It: A World AIDS Day Conversation (An Arsht Center Artist in Residence Series)
Open space, SEASON 2 Episode 2 - InclUSivity: Centering Community and Collaboration in the Arts
SEASON 2 Episode 2: InclUSivity: Centering Community and Collaboration in the Arts
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at 5:30 pm-7:00 pm ET
Host: Pioneer Winter, Pioneer Winter Collective
Guests: Mengtong Guan (PingPong Arts), Omar Ingram (The International Association of Blacks in Dance), Laura Martinez (World Fusion Events), Shoshana Polanco (La Teatrería)
The International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD), in partnership with Francine Sheffield (Sheffield Global Arts Management) and Kristopher McDowell (KMP Artists), presents Open Space, an episodic series devoted to addressing pressing issues in the field of dance. Open Space uplifts, highlights, and engages artists of African Ancestry or Origin. This casual, virtual platform welcomes Black artists and allies at all stages in their careers. Open Space exists for meaningful dialogue, discourse, and debate about matters affecting the field. Past topics have included disparities and opportunities in funding, activism in the arts, and well-being. Each episode consists of a panel of 3 to 4 artists, 1 host, and 1 co-host (5/6 persons total). Additional artists will submit questions in real-time. Observers from the community are welcome. Episodes last 90 minutes with loose parameters to keep it engaging and fun. For more information visit: https://www.iabdassociation.org/page/openspace
Meet the Artist with Tommy Hensel, Moraine Valley Community College Fine & Performing Arts Center
FUNDarte presents Out in the Tropics 2020: A Conversation with Dancer & Choreographer Pioneer Winter
FUNDarte presents Out In The Tropics 2020, a yearly performing arts series featuring artists that address issues of gender politics, sexuality, and LGBTQ identity. This year, in celebration of its 11th anniversary, this program series will support two local artists with a subsidy for development of new works. In response to the pandemic, Out in the Tropics 2020 will shift its project activities this year from live performances, and instead award two Miami-based artists with a subsidy and residency to support the development of new works. Choreographer and dancer Pioneer Winter will present a video compilation of his work and an introduction to his new piece DJ Apollo. More information: https://fundarte.us/fundarte-event/out-in-the-tropics-2020-2/
Dance Magazine - October 2020
“Birds of Paradise” Awarded NEFA’s national dance project production and map fund support!
Birds of Paradise is a dance-theater work directed by Pioneer Winter, enacted as a ‘tropical militia’ of queer-identifying South Florida dancers, performance artists, and designers. Motivated by the forced anonymity of queer resistance, it rejects an abridged gay history that memorializes efforts of some and erases others. Multiracial and intergenerational engagement will purge praise and protest, celebration and rage, within a shared physicality that draws imagery from military and pride marches, drag pageantry, and other radical forms of assemblage. Birds of Paradise seeks out a new mythology to gain control over both the story and rhythm by which we march - or fly. Birds of Paradise premieres October 2020 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida.
pioneer winter collective is a dance magazine “25 to watch” for 2019!
Members of Pioneer Winter Collective from L to R - June Raven Romero, Katrina Patrarca, Lize-Lotte Pitlo, courtesy of Mitchell Zachs.
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