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newEar   April 2011
 

For Immediate Release
News from newEar contemporary chamber ensemble

DIRECTIØNS - newEar's 17th Season - 2009-2010

Contact:
Jedd Schneider
816-294-5481
jschneider@newear.org
Or Jennifer Owen
816-931-1277
mail@owencoxdance.org

- Owen/Cox Dance Group
newEar Chromatic Collaboration

newEar & Owen/Cox Dance Group present
Chromatic Collaboration

on Friday, April 29 & Saturday, April 30

H&R Block City Stage – Union Station Kansas City at 8:00PM

On April 29: 7:15PM pre-concert discussion with composers HyeKyung Lee and Brad Cox*

On April 30: Post-concert talk-back with performers and composers

Admiration and respect continue to attract newEar contemporary chamber ensemble to the dynamic work of the Owen/Cox Dance Group. In forging an inaugural creative partnership, newEar and Owen/Cox engage in actively fulfilling their respective missions with sweeping comprehension. This collaboration promises to broach new frontiers of expectation and stimulation for audience and performer alike; and will provide a contribution to the increasingly vibrant creative life of Kansas City. newEar seizes this opportunity to share with Owen/Cox our mutual mandate to commission and perform the music and dance of our time, thereby creating art expressly to challenge and innovate.

Concert Elements:

Worker’s Union** – Louis Andriessen
ShadowingHyeKyung Lee
Long Day/Good NightBrad Cox (world premiere commission)
Garden of Love Jacob TV
ElegyCharles Dodge

All pieces will be choreographed by Owen/Cox Dance Group.

Jennifer Owen Brad Cox

General admission tickets: $20.00 and are purchased from the Union Station website.

Student tickets: $10.00 upon presentation of valid student identification in person at the Union Station box office only.

*Ms. Lee’s availability is made possible through Meet the Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.
** By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.


Financial support for these performances has been provided by Aaron Copland Fund for New Music, ArtsKC Fund, Carolyn L. Hart Memorial Trust, DST, Francis Families Foundation, Martha Lee Cain Tranby Fund, Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections Program, Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation, Seeley Foundation and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.


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