Improvisation is not only at the heart of artist couple Carla Forte and Alexey Taran’s work, but how they live. They’ve hopscotched from Cuba to Venezuela to New York to Europe to Miami, always looking for new ways to create, live and stay true to what they love.“As an artist and a human being I try to live in the here and now,” says Alexey, a choreographer and dancer. “This is one of the things keeping me alive and working.”

Their ability to respond in the moment has served them well as the Covid-19 pandemic has kept the pair at home in their historic Little Haiti house, together with Carla’s elderly parents and their pet cats and dogs. And they’ve transformed their 305 and Havana International Improv Festival, which Miami Light Project was slated to present at the Light Box in Wynwood in April, into an online event celebrating artist responses to the unprecedentedly strange situation the world is enduring.

“Daily life is improvisation,” says Carla, a filmmaker and dance artist. “We have a score, but we don’t know what’s going to happen in an hour, or a minute. Right now the world is in a big important dangerous improvisation. We want to create something where artists can share the moment they are living right now.”

“We are living in a unique time,” adds Alexey. “So we are adapting, because we have to survive as artists and human beings.”

The Improv Festival will now take place this weekend, with a Handcrafted Film Conference, a workshop with filmmaker Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez, at 7pm on Friday May 1st; and an Online Film and Media Screening Event, featuring original experimental films and dance videos from artists in Miami, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Spain, Italy and more, at 7pm on Saturday May 2nd.

Carla and Alexey have been part of the Miami Light Project family of artists since they were first commissioned for the Here & Now Festival over a decade ago, presenting multiple dance, film and hybrid projects since. This year they became one of the AIR (Artist in Residence) at the Light Box creators, receiving support and rehearsing at the Wynwood space.
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Their fluid, immersive sensibility fascinates executive director Beth Boone.

“I find Alexey and Carla to be the quintessential artists in that there’s no separation between their daily lives and their artmaking,” Beth says. “If they’re cooking, caring for their dogs, or having dinner with their family, a film is being created in Carla’s head and choreography is being planned out in Alexey’s brain.”

305 & HAVANA INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FEST '20 ​is a festival that promotes the art of improvisation in performance and film. Taking place during two consecutive weeks in Miami, and Havana, the 305 & HAVANA INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FEST '20 presents master classes by international artists, curated screenings and performances that deepen into the art of improvisation, bringing together performing artists, filmmakers and audiences across two cities.

Partnering venues includes the Miami-Dade County Auditorium On.Stage Black Box Theatre (Miami, Florida) and Workshops at Miami Light Center (Miami, Florida) and Fabrica de Arte Cubano (Havana, Cuba). In the life of a stage or creative space, improvisation is considered an instrument for exploration and a tool for expanding creative possibilities. Open-ended investigation into the art of improvisation in different artistic expressions has become a tool that has no limits in the search for an authentic language through movement or ideas.  

​Every year, the festival commissions a Miami-based artist to present work across the two cites. This year, composer and sound artist DEE BERTOLDI has been selected as the 305HAVIIF 2020 Commissioned Artist. This commission is made possible by the support of Vivian Marthell, Co-director of O Cinema. ​

Poster by ​Black Spring Graphics Studio

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Los invitó a todos a ver nuestro largometraje Ann, que estará libremente gracias a la Iniciativa Filmoteca Virtual de la Fundación FestiCineGye, Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Para verla solo tendrás que seguir este link:
https://youtu.be/apIUaeW79YA
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Viernes 17 de Abril a las 7Pm hora Ecuador