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Owen/Cox Dance Group announces 2010-2011 season
Owen/Cox Dance Group recently announced their 2010-11 season which will include "The Golem," the delightful "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and a spring performance collaboration with newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.
Fall Performance: The Golem
On October 2 and 3, 2010 (8:00 p.m. Saturday, 2:00 p.m. Sunday) the Owen/Cox Dance Group will premiere The Golem at Jewish Community Center’s Lewis and Shirley White Theatre. Based on a centuries-old Jewish folktale which is widely believed to be the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Golem tells the story of a giant clay figure created by a powerful tzaddik in order to protect the Jewish people. This new production, in collaboration with Paul Mesner Puppets and Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, features nine dancers of the Owen/Cox Dance Group, violinist Gregory Sandomirsky, experimental jazz musician Mark Southerland, designer Peggy Noland, and artist Nate Fors.
Winter Performance: The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
On December 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, & 19, 2010 the Owen/Cox Dance Group will present its modern jazz adaptation of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King with The People’s Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City. Fourteen musicians of The People’s Liberation Big Band, horn sculptor Mark Southerland, artists Peggy Noland and Peregrine Honig (costume design), child soprano Lilah Wilder, nine dancers of the Owen/Cox Dance Group, and six students of Paseo Academy of the Performing Arts will collaborate on this work. Returning to the original and notably darker E.T.A Hoffman story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), this production features both original music and radical rearrangements of Tchaikovsky melodies created by a host of innovative Kansas City jazz musicians. The performances will take place at Union Station’s H&R Block City Stage.
Spring Performance with newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
On April 29 & 30, 2011 Owen/Cox Dance Group will continue its tradition of collaboration with Kansas City's finest arts organizations in a performance of new works with newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. The program will feature four newly choreographed works by Jennifer Owen, and the music of HyeKyung Lee, Louis Andriessen, Jacob TV, and Brad Cox. The performances will take place at Union Station’s H&R Block City Stage Theater.
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