RSS 2.0 FeedOctober 2008, Dance Around the City
Dance Column for October 5 - 18
Goings on from here to there in the world of dance.
Who: Kansas City Ballet
What: Fall Program
When: October 9-12 (various times)
Where: Lyric Theatre, 11th & Central, Downtown Kansas City, MO
The Kansas City Ballet opens it 51st season with the premiere of Trey McIntyre's The Naughty Boy, Agnes de Mille's Rodeo and Jerome Robbin's The Concert. The Kansas City Symphony, directed by the Ballet's Concert Mistress Ramona Pansegrau, will accompany the ballets.
A comedy on the surface, The Concert's true and deeper subject explores the dreams and yearnings created from the joys and miseries of each character's life. Staged as a piano recital and featuring an ensemble of dancers, The Concert is set, appropriately, to the music of Chopin.
Set to Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, The Naughty Boy focuses on the romantic antics of four couples and the influence of a mischievous orange-and-plaid-clad Cupid. Presented through classical ballet, the dance showcases McIntyre's confident, sassy and breezy style.
Choreographed by American master Agnes de Mille and set to the music of another American genius, Aaron Copeland, Rodeo tells the perennial story of girl wants boy, or in this case, cowgirl wants cowboy. Throughout the five sections, Buckaroo Holiday, Ranch House Party, Corral Nocturne, Saturday Night Waltz and the ever-familiar and toe-tapping Hoedown, audience members are sure to be delighted with this piece of pure Americana!
For more information or tickets call 816-931-2232 or online at www.kcballet.org
One of "A Quarrelling Pair" from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Who: Lied Center of Kansas
What: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in A Quarrelling Pair
When: October 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lied Center of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr., Lawrence, KS
Internationally recognized for exploring controversial themes through movement, music and dance, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane (1948-1988) founded their company in 1983. Exploring identity issues, form and social commentary in a new confrontational way, they have creatively collaborated over the past 25 years with a diverse array of artists covering classical music to jazz to redefine the face of American dance.
Using sound as art, multimedia images and the artifacts of activism, A Quarrelling Pair is a vaudevillian theatre-meets-dance production that centers on our role and participation in the world. Based on the surreal and interpretive staging of a 1946 Jane Bowles puppet play of the same name, the production tells the story of two argumentative sisters who cannot agree about their place in the world.
For tickets call 785-864-2787 or online at www.lied.ku.edu
Who: Owen Cox Dance Group
What: Canon Play (world premiere)
When: October 10, 6:30 and 8:00 p.m.
Where: Arts, Beats & Eats Festival, YWCA of Greater Kansas City,
1017 N. 6th St. Kansas City, KS 66101 Downtown KCK
This new piece by written by composer Brad Cox and choreographed by Jennifer Owen adds even more depth to this new, fresh dance company. The Festival looks like great fun too and, as it's in KCK, is a nifty change to the KCMO locale.
OCDG is sure to brace your imagination as well as fulfill your need for international level music.
The event is free so just show up and have a great time, though you will need some dough for chowing down on the metropolis' best area eateries.
Please visit OCDG at www.OwenCoxdance.org and the festival at www.kckartsbeatseats.org.
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