GREEN_MIAMI

Culture of aPeople CULTURA DE UN UEBLO

La ciudad de Miami está ocupada todo el año recibiendo una variedad extensa de eventos, festivales, ferias y convenciones La ciudad de Miami está ocupada todo el año recibiendo una variedad extensa de eventos, festivales, ferias y convenciones

Miami has important cultural attractions such as theatres, museums, parks and centres of performing arts. The most recent addition is the Adrianne Arsht Center of the Performing Arts opened in October 2006 with the name of the Carnival Center, is the second largest in the United States after the Lincoln Center in New York arts and is the home of the Florida Grand Opera. Moreover, the Miami City Ballet, the dance of the State of Florida company, usually represent their works at the Jackie Gleason Theater, among others. El Knight Concert Hall is the second room of the Arsht Center seating 2,200 people, downtown also features the theatre Carnival Studio and the Peacock Rehearsal Studio. Its total of 53,000 square meters area attracts shows of large-scale, ballets, concerts , and music from around the world, and is the most important Floridaperforming arts center.

The popular music in Miami is varied. Cubans brought the conga and the rumba from their homelands and immediately popularized it in American culture. The Puerto Rico brought with it lately a new musical rhythm; Reggaeton. The Dominicans did the same thing with bachata and merengue, while Colombians brought vallenato and the Cumbia colombiana and Caribbean reggae, soca, kompa, zouk, calypso and steelpan.

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