CROSSROADS: AN EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL DANCE

As part of Gallery Night, the Coral Gables Museum presents a special movement-based program that expands the evening’s atmosphere through contemporary and experimental dance. Integrated into the open flow of the night, the program invites audiences to encounter live performance within the galleries, adding a physical and emotional dimension to the Gallery Night experience.

The program brings together artists whose practices explore connection, vulnerability, and the tension between individual and collective presence. Through improvisation, choreography, voice, and sound, the performances unfold as immersive moments rather than staged events, encouraging close viewing, reflection, and shared experience. Movement becomes a way of navigating space, relationships, and the subtle thresholds between action and consequence.

Presented in dialogue with the social and cultural energy of Gallery Night, this program reinforces the Museum’s role as a site for experimentation, exchange, and community engagement, where contemporary artistic practices intersect with the rhythms of the city and its audiences.

PROGRAM

The Strength of Weak Ties
Choreography: Aeon De La Cruz
Dancers: Aeon De La Cruz, Isaiah Gonzalez, Nicolle Garcia, Nicole Pedraza, Luiza Lamoglia, Andrea Agostini

Roadkill
Performer: Sarah Lutzky
Dancers: Aeon De La Cruz, Andrea Agostini, Luiza Lamoglia, Nicole Pedraza, Sarah Lutzky
Sound: Blind Carbon Copy

Q&A with the artists

About the Works

The Strength of Weak Ties examines the “small world paradox”—the idea that we are all separated by six degrees or fewer—through physical connection, spatial clustering, and improvisational chance. Using Aeon De La Cruz’s movement framework Query, the dancers navigate distance, proximity, and unexpected encounters.

Roadkill is a visceral contemporary performance by Sarah Lutzky that blends dance and voice to interrogate victimhood, fear, and mortality. Using the image of roadkill as both literal and symbolic rupture, the work reflects on humanity’s dual role as predator and prey—and the sudden awareness of our own fragility.

SLUT Dance Collective is a movement-based art collective founded by Sarah Lutzky. The collective explores contemporary experience through experimental performance, using deconstructed forms to question social norms and embodied relationships.

Sarah Lutzky is an independent, multidisciplinary movement-based artist and choreographer. She holds a BFA in Dance and a minor in Cinema Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and has presented work at venues including Spoke the Hub, Chez Bushwick, and Martha Graham Studios. She is the founder and Artistic Director of SLUT Dance Collective.

Aeon De La Cruz is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and dancer whose practice bridges movement, visual art, and sound. He is the creator of Blind Carbon Copy, a collaborative composition project for dance and media, and the founder of Query, an experimental improvisation framework. His work has been presented by Miami Light Project and Miami Dance Hub.

Andrea Agostini is a performer and choreographer based in Miami. Her work has been presented in New York and Philadelphia, and she has been recognized as a Young Voice in Dance choreographer at the Battery Dance Festival. She also works in arts administration and digital communications.

Luiza Lamoglia is a Miami-based multimedia dance artist with a BFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase. Her practice centers on improvisation, voice, and theatricality, and she is a member of Miami’s Syncopate Collective.

Nicole Pedraza is a contemporary dance artist whose work explores identity, intimacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has performed and presented work at institutions including Pérez Art Museum Miami and Miami Light Project and currently serves as Education and Outreach Coordinator at The Moss Center.

Nicolle Garcia is an interdisciplinary artist working across voice, movement, and improvisation. A graduate of the University of Miami Frost School of Music, she has performed and collaborated with musicians and dancers across jazz and experimental performance contexts.

Isaiah Gonzalez is a dancer and educator based in South Florida. A graduate of New World School of the Arts, he performs with brigid baker whole project and teaches ballet and contemporary dance through youth and community programs.

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