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Arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 31-Jan. 6 Dancing into a new year The Sarasota Ballet kicks off the new year with its third digital program of excerpts from a wide variety of pieces by six different choreographers. The company announced in December that it would continue its online presentations through the rest of the season. The latest offering, available Friday through Tuesday features Peter Darrell’s “Othello,” Christopher Wheeldon’s “The American,” Sir Matthew Bourne’...

Arts events in Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 24-30 Our weekly guide to the visual and performing arts in Sarasota and Manatee counties. A world of art at The Ringling A new exhibition will be frequently changing for visitors to the Ringling Museum. “For Real This Time” is a new video installation that explores social justice issues through the work of eight different artists. Deanna Bowen’s “sum of the parts: what can be named, 2010" is the opening feature through Jan. 7. The artist videos, w...

Arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 17-23 Our weekly guide to the visual and performing arts in Sarasota and Manatee counties. Dancing in the street Sarasota Contemporary marks its 15th anniversary with the outdoor street festival “Fiesta de Colores.” Presented from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday in the courtyard of Rosemary Square, adjacent to the company’s studios, it will feature DJ Karim Manning, local lyricist and B-boy Rick Levin and an interactive projection design by Logan Gabriel Schulma...

Arts events in Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 10-16 A Dickens of a performance Jim Floyd has a rare treat for himself and audiences this holiday season. He not only gets to return to performing after a long pandemic-forced break, but he’s playing all the characters in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” including the author himself. Floyd stars in the Players Centre for Performing Arts production of Greg Oliver Bodine’s one-man version of the classic story outdoors at the Bazaar at Apricot ...