We started in a very naive way 23 years ago, in 2001, together with Larry Villanueva and Carlos Caballero because we wanted to do creative things, what young people wanted to do then, our creativity, and little by little, without realizing it, we grew, he recalled. founder and executive production director Alexa Kuve.
From those years we remember the works of theater It’s cool outsidefrom Villanueva, American dreamby Eduardo Pardo, and The repetitionby Anton Arufat, as well as the short film Chambelonaalso from Villanueva.
Larry has been very important to me. We have a very special team and together we have taken this forward, acknowledged the actress and producer.
I owe to Teresa María Roja how much or little I know about acting and theater, he acknowledged.
Nile Cross
In 2012, playwright Nilo Cruz, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Anna in the Tropicschose to have ARCA Images produce the play Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams and, by later joining the theater production company, the history of ARCA Images changed for the better, Kuve said.
From then on, instead of going out to find a theater to present a play, the production company relied on the Miami Dade County Auditorium (MDCA) as a resident producer, he noted.
I am and will forever be grateful because Nilo and Javier Siut (Assistant Theater Director for Miami-Dade County) changed the history of ARCA Image and mine as well as a producer, she stated.
Little by little, ARCA Images representations increased. We start with one a year. After two, three, five, when he incorporated concerts and dramatized readings, he recorded.
In this way, memorable performances, such as Whisper, Lorca in a green dress, Tsunami, Baby powder y Moscow’s withdrawalcame on stage with ARCA Images.
Just two months ago we enjoyed the world premiere of the piece Thirst on Water Street, written and directed by Nile Cross.
“You don’t know how happy I feel to know that we have been able to provide work for so many artists during these years,” the producer stressed.
That is one of my greatest satisfactions and main objectives. And I would like to give much more, but it is difficult, he summarized.
Yes. It is difficult to do theater in Miami and any city in the world. Free enterprise, free creativity and entertainment competition in the digital age takes its toll on theatrical art.
What we collect at the box office is barely enough to pay the rent for the theater and the technicians who make the show possible. Without a subsidy we cannot afford the expenses of directing, casting, set design and more, he summarized.
Maybe more support from governments and private companies? Or an educational campaign that encourages the population to go to the theater more.
There are no guaranteed subsidies, but ARCA Images has been able to prove, over all these years, its theatrical work to obtain certain contributions from Miami-Dade County, the State of Florida and other cultural organizations in the nation.
The strongest sponsorship we received was during Michael Spring’s direction of Culture in the County. That man supported the arts in this city in an extraordinary way, he said.
Today, in her place, there is Maralaura Leslie, who was by Michael’s side all that time and I am sure that she will continue with that torch, she said.
Today, following administrative changes in the conduct of cultural affairs in Miami-Dade County, ARCA Images transfers its functions to the Westchester Cultural Arts Center.
And how was it? a Benny Mor story
ARCA Images extends the musical’s programming And how was it? a Benny Mor story with an additional performance on Sunday, June 2.
Carlos Silva was studying lyrical singing in Vienna when he met someone who told him anecdotes about Benny Mor, the great Cuban singer and musician who spread his fame throughout half of the American continent.
The desire to bring those passages to the stage did not die and together with ARCA Images Silva created the musical.
Silva wrote the script and actor Franklin Virgez, who plays a trumpeter admirer of Benny, materializes the musical with his performance, he explained.
For the show, ARCA Images recreates the splendor of a cabar from the 1950s, when son, mambo and other popular rhythms set the tone for music.
And how was it? a Benny Mor story, Sunday, June 2, Saturday, May 18, at 5:30 pm, at the Westchester Cultural Arts Center, 7930 SW 40 Street. Miami. Telephone: (305) 226 0030. Tickets $35. See page www.arcaimages.org an Internet.
