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Owen/Cox Dance Group just announced its fifth performance season featuring collaborative new works with Park University's International Center for Music, a repeat performance of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, and a world premiere in partnership with NEA Fellow Nate Fors. 

Fall Performance with Park University International Center for Music
On October 29 & 30, 2011 Owen/Cox Dance Group joins with Park University's International Center for Music in presenting newly choreographed works by Jennifer Owen performed to the music of Stravinsky, Bach and Bartok.  The performances will take place in the university's Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel.

Winter Performance: The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
On December 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, & 18, 2011 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.  Fifteen musicians of The People’s Liberation Big Band, horn sculptor Mark Southerland, artists Peggy Noland and Peregrine Honig (costume design), vocalist  Lilah Wilder, nine dancers of the Owen/Cox Dance Group, and six students of Paseo Academy of the Fine and 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 Theater.

Spring Performance: Bottom of the Big Top and other works
On April 13, 14 & 15, 2012 Owen/Cox Dance Group will premiere a new work in collaboration with NEA Fellow Nate Fors.  The ensemble will also present Bottom of the Big Top and A Good Missouri Song  from the group's 2007-2008 performance season.  The performances will take place at Union Station’s H&R Block City Stage Theater.  On April 20 & 21, the company will perform this program at the Lawrence Arts Center in Lawrence, KS.

More information visit www.owencoxdance.org.