On June 12, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, exerting his line-item veto power, cut all state arts funding for 2024–25 to zero. $32 million had been slated to go to more than 600 arts organizations, ranging from large companies (Miami City Ballet lost $70,500, according to the Sun Sentinel) to small, education-based centers.

This year has been a time to commemorate Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino’s huge contributions to American dance, as 2018 marks the 30th and 10th anniversaries of their deaths, respectively. On June 10, The Joffrey Ballet brought Arpino’s neo-romantic Round of Angels (1983) to the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, MS, where Joffrey chaired […]