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GENERATOR featuring Mesonjixx & Paul Barnes
Category: Generator Series • KANEKO Core Programs • Members • Performances | Season:
GENERATOR Series is Back!
Generator Series returns to KANEKO with two artists who explore the cathartic and sublime elements of music with innovation, depth, and curiosity.
Kansas City-based musician and composer Mary Lawson, who creates under the name Mesonjixx, is working with new technologies to create soundscapes of voice, percussion, keyboard, poetry, and found-sounds. Lincoln-based pianist Paul Barnes takes an eclectic approach to programming, weaving his virtuosic piano repertoire with ancient chant.
MESONJIXX
Mary Elizabeth Jo Dixen Pelenaise Kapio’Lani Lawson also known as Mesonjixx is an artist, composer, writer, performer and collaborator who currently resides in Omaha, Nebraska. Her father is a Black Visionary born and raised in Ozark, Alabama and her mother is a South Pasifika Islander, Oracle from Honolulu, Hawai’i.
Mesonjixx identifies as a Black-femme woman with Native and Indigenous South Pasifika roots. To her, identifying as such communicates and complicates her queer existence.
While living in Chicago (2009-2014) she honed her songwriting and musical style. These years were formative for her composition and writing practice and what laid the foundation for her work as a musician and performing artist today.
Since her return to Nebraska in 2014 Mesonjixx has found balance in her interconnected nature of her identities as a femme-woman, as one who belongs to two diasporas of two hemispheres, and as a black midwesterner who finds the plains of Amerika her home. Mesonjixx creates music to find her unique center.
Soon after her performance debut in 2015 at Meadowlark Cafe, accompanied by Kekeli Dawes (percussion) Myles Jasnowski (guitar) and film (co-directed by Kelsey Lee) Mesonjixx has not only become a fixture of the Nebraska music scene, but has risen to the top of artists in the Midwest. Both as a solo artist and as a leader of a trio and quartet, which has drawn the most talented musicians of Nebraska.
Keyboardist Nate Asad is and has been the band director for Mesonjixx for the last 3 years. Their trio – which featured percussion/sound artist, John Evans – was selected to open for Kamasi Washington’s recent performance in Omaha at the Slowdown and was a returning festival favorite at True/False Independent Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri.
She describes the music as: Black Femme music. Afro-futuristic Experimental Subculture Soul. LEARN MORE
PAUL BARNES
Praised by the New York Times for his “Lisztian thunder and deft fluidity,” and the San Francisco Chronicle as “ferociously virtuosic,” pianist Paul Barnes has electrified audiences with his intensely expressive playing and cutting-edge programming. He has been featured seven times on APM’s Performance Today and on the cover of Clavier Magazine with his recordings streamed worldwide.
Celebrating his twenty-five-year collaboration with Philip Glass, Barnes commissioned and gave the world premiere of Glass’s Piano Quintet “Annunciation.” The work is Glass’s first piano quintet and first work based on Greek Orthodox chant. Barnes recording of the quintet with string quartet superstars Brooklyn Rider was released in October of 2019 to critical acclaim. ResMusica in Paris wrote: “Paul Barnes, whose pianistic lines are always clear, is a marvel of dialogue with Brooklyn Rider.” <
Barnes twelfth CD New Generations: The New Etudes of Philip Glass and Music of the Next Generation has also received rave reviews. Gramophone Magazine wrote, “Pianists of Barnes’s great technique and musicality are a boon to new music.” And American Record Guide commented, “This disc provides further proof of Barnes’s ability to communicate new music with flair and passion.” Produced by Orange Mountain Music, the recording features the world-premiere recording of Dreaming Awake, a selection of Glass’s etudes and works by N. Lincoln Hanks, Lucas Floyd, Jason Bahr, Zack Stanton, Ivan Moody, and Jonah Gallagher.
Barnes is Marguerite Scribante Professor of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music. He was recently appointed Artistic Director of the Lied Center Piano Academy which welcomes several high-school pianists to Lincoln each summer for an intensive week of piano, composition, improvisation and collaboration. He also teaches during the summer at the Vienna International Piano Academy and the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. In great demand as a pedagogue and clinician, Barnes has served as convention artist at several state MTNA conventions, most recently at Virginia and was recently named “Teacher of the Year” by the Nebraska Music Teachers Association.
Barnes latest recital Illumination features a contemplative and cathartic program of piano works inspired by the mystical world of chant. Barnes, also a Greek Orthodox chanter, has collaborated most recently with Philip Glass and Victoria Bond to create piano works based on ancient byzantine and Jewish chant. New chant-based works by Native flutist Ron Warren and David von Kampen are also given their premiere performances. Barnes gave the world premiere of Victoria Bond’s Illumination on Byzantine Chant at New York’s Symphony Space in April of 2021. Barnes will release his fourteenth recording this fall on Albany Records entitled Illumination: The Piano Works of Victoria Bond including the world-premiere recording of Illuminations on Byzantine Chant.
Barnes’ recordings are available on Spotify, Pandora, iTunes, Apple Music, YouTube, and Amazon. LEARN MORE
About the Generator Series: Presented by KANEKO and Omaha Under the Radar, the Generator Series will present events that investigate music’s relationship to our physical world, seeking the connections between sound and architecture, sound and natural landscapes, sound, and the human body, and more. Focusing on music by living composers, including sound improvisation and experimental composition, the Generator Series will be an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen, and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
About Omaha Under the Radar: Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. We celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.
Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than one dozen cities throughout the United States. We work to present a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions, and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. To make a tax-deductible donation in support of our programming efforts, visit our SUPPORT page.
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Amplified Traces
Category: Generator Series | Season:
“How do we sing and move to comfort ourselves in times of uncertainty? How do we find solace in our own intimate spaces? What secrets are we trying to conceal when our public lives encroach on the private? Why do we seek to reach beyond borders and across the tyranny of distance, even if it sometimes costs lives, evokes violence, and further separations”
-Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh
Omaha Under the Radar and KANEKO present a GENERATOR SERIES virtual event featuring poet Britny Cordera, vocal quartet Quince Ensemble, dancer/choreographer Veronica Santiago Moniello, and composer Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh. Cordera will perform her poems revelations and Sagittarius season, which were recently published in Luna Luna Magazine. Quince Ensemble will present a digitally realized premiere of Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh’s Amplified Traces with dancer/choreographer Veronica Santiago Moniello.
A note from composer Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh:
“How do we define interpersonal connections in the time of social distancing?
When the piece was first conceived, it was going to be performed as a multimedia installation performance housed in the beautiful gallery space at KANEKO, Omaha. It was going to be built around a multichannel speaker setup and projector screens, encapsulating the audience member in an immersive environment shared with the performers. It was going to be a piece that confronts the boundaries of our bodies, celebrating its desires and sensitivity, examining its limitations and protectiveness. It was going to challenge our perspective on the corporeal-spatial understanding of music performance, it was going to be about inhibiting a live acoustic feedback environment, and it was going to be about choreographing sound’s movement in space as activated by moving performers.
It was about coalescing multiple threads of observations into one amalgamation. And then it wasn’t.
When the world suddenly hit pause, live performances became a memory as distant as a sweet dream that evaporates. No longer planned as a piece to be performed in space with a live audience, the piece began to pivot towards addressing the topical concerns of confinement, limitation, and solitude. It was heading towards experimentations on collaborating over internet latency, grids of little video boxes in gallery view, compressed audio and video quality, 2-dimensional human interactions, and the unsettledness of a never-ending sheltering in place.
Looking back to the journey of the work, the best way to describe Amplified Traces is that it never ceased to be about the people involved in the project and the implication of the human condition. It is about how, despite all the restrictions and distances between myself, members of Quince, and Veronica, what connects us is a collective wish to complete the creative journey we set out all those months ago, in our rigorous discussions about the boundaries of the female body, and the borders that confine it. It is about trust, being honest in confronting our limitations and vulnerabilities, and asking:
How do we sing and move to comfort ourselves in times of uncertainty? How do we find solace in our own intimate spaces? What secrets are we trying to conceal when our public lives encroach on the private? Why do we seek to reach beyond borders and across the tyranny of distance, even if it sometimes costs lives, evokes violence, and further separations?”
Performers:
Britny Cordera is a two-year Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. She is a proud WOC and Louisiana Creole poet, descending from African, Indigenous, and French/Spanish ancestors. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in the Pinyon Review, Concis, Xavier Review, and Auburn Avenue. Currently, she is an MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and an intern for poemoftheweek.com. Learn More
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh is a Taiwanese-Australian composer currently based in the United States. Her compositional interest focuses on immersive physical experiences and she often articulates sonic expressions in terms of choreography, phenomenology, and musical-social interactivity. Hsieh’s latest works delve into examinations of bodily presence, borders, and proximities through the lens of power dynamic, control, and gender politics. Her collaboration with flutist Kathryn Williams, Pixercise, for instance, is a work that addresses the cross-sections between the female body, physical exercises, and the virtuosity in contemporary music performance. Learn More
Singing with the precision and flexibility of modern chamber musicians, Quince Ensemble is changing the paradigm of contemporary vocal music. Described as “the Anonymous 4 of new music” by Opera News, Quince continually pushes the boundaries of vocal ensemble literature. As dedicated advocates of new music, Quince regularly commissions new works, providing wider exposure for the music of living composers. Comprised of vocalists Liz Pearse (soprano), Kayleigh Butcher (mezzo soprano), Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (soprano), and Carrie Henneman Shaw (soprano), Quince thrives on unique musical challenges and genre-bending contemporary repertoire. Learn More
Veronica Santiago Moniello began her studies at the “Piso rojo” School of Contemporary Dance and in “Iudanza” University of Contemporary Dance in Venezuela. In parallel, she worked as an interpreter with the following companies: Caracas Roja Laboratorio, Compañía Nacional de Teatro de Venezuela, Danza Hoy, Río Teatro Caribe and La Máquina Teatro. She has studied and worked internationally in Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Belize, España and Venezuela, and elsewhere, and has collaborated with Pina Bauch, Felix Burkle, Samir Akika, Unusual Symptoms, Chikako Kaido, Leandro Kees, Rodolfo Leoni, Mark Sieczkarek, Francisco Leiva, and others. She is currently involved as a co-creator in several projects in collaboration with Alex Carrillo, Javier Fresneda (Enduring), Tomas Gomez (Peces) and Fernando Melo (La distancia mas larga entre dos puntos), (Rua do Lavradio). Learn More
About the Generator Series: Presented by KANEKO and Omaha Under the Radar, the Generator Series will present events that investigate music’s relationship to our physical world, seeking the connections between sound and architecture, sound and natural landscapes, sound, and the human body, and more. Focusing on music by living composers, including sound improvisation and experimental composition, the Generator Series will be an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
About Omaha Under the Radar: Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. We celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.
Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than one dozen cities throughout the United States. We work to present a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions, and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. To make a tax-deductible donation in support of our programming efforts, visit our SUPPORT page.
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GENERATOR Series: The State You’re In
Category: Generator Series • KANEKO Core Programs • Members • Performances | Season: Influence
Nebraska-Based Creators
The KANEKO Generator Series returns with its first event of 2020, “The State You’re In,” which will explore the music and art of Nebraska-based creators. This will be a program that asks questions: What is unique about living in Nebraska? How can we characterize our state beyond the catchy slogans and branding campaigns? What does Nebraska sound like? Is there a specific acoustic character to our state? Where are we shaped as listeners and creators by the sonic qualities of the Great Plains?
The State You’re In features a world premiere by composer Stacey Barelos which weaves narrative reflections from the community with string quartet, as well as music composed by composers Mathew Fuerst, Dana Murray, and Anothony Donofrio, poetry by Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, and a special art installation by Susan Knight.
About the Generator Series: Presented by KANEKO and Omaha Under the Radar, the Generator Series will present events that investigate music’s relationship to our physical world, seeking the connections between sound and architecture, sound and natural landscapes, sound, and the human body, and more. Focusing on music by living composers, including sound improvisation and experimental composition, the Generator Series will be an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
About Omaha Under the Radar: Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. We celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.
Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than one dozen cities throughout the United States. We work to present a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions, and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. To make a tax-deductible donation in support of our programming efforts, visit our SUPPORT page.
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Soundry Workshop: Sounds Inspired
Category: Generator Series • Performances • Workshop | Season: Influence
Spark your creativity with words of local authors!
Collaborating with members of KANEKO writing groups, Soundry participants will create original music to be performed at a 2020 Omaha Under the Radar event!
Soundry is a musical workshop part of the GENERATOR Series. With classes geared towards adult learners, Soundry investigates the art of sound installation, instrument building, and 21st century composition techniques. No music experience is required! Soundry is directed by composer and pianist Stacey Barelos, and includes expert instructors from Omaha and around the country!
About Omaha Under the Radar
Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. They celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than a dozen cities throughout the United States. They work to represent a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization.
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SOUNDRY Workshop: Scary Movie Soundtracks
Category: Education • Generator Series • Performances | Season: Influence
Use your creativity in composition!
Join us on October 10 if you dare! At this SOUNDRY workshop, we will investigate noise and non-traditional sounds to compose original scary movie music soundtracks. No experience required! With classes created for adult learners, SOUNDRY is directed by composer and pianist Stacey Barelos and includes expert instructors from Omaha and around the country. Participants will have their original spooky music featured at the GENERATOR Series: Wailing performance the following day.
About Stacey Barelos
Omaha native Stacey Barelos is a performer and composer specializing in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Regarding her first solo release, The Midwest American Piano Project, the American Record Guide said, “Stacey Barelos…plays with authority and poetic nuance, her beautiful tone captured vividly in this warm recording…” As a composer, Stacey’s works have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe and Australia. In addition to her concert works, Dr. Barelos frequently writes pieces for her studio. Her recent article, “Composing for Your Students!” encourages other teachers to do the same. Currently, Dr. Barelos teaches piano and composition at the Omaha Conservatory and is the Education Director for the Omaha Under the Radar Festival. For more information, see her website, staceybarelos.com.About Omaha Under the Radar
Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. They celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than a dozen cities throughout the United States. They work to represent a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. Learn More ->
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GENERATOR Series: Wailing
Category: Generator Series • KANEKO Core Programs • Members • Performances | Season: Influence
Mysterious Sounds
Dive into mysterious and raw new music at “GENERATOR Series: Wailing,” an evening of experimental chamber music that indulges in the complexity of songs outside language and asks questions about how living beings communicate. Whalesong, human cries, physical gestures, grunts, growls, hugs – it’s all on the table in the music of George Crumb, Helmut Lachenmann, Carola Bauckholt, Stacey Barelos, Cory Johnson, and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett. Featuring performances by some of Omaha’s most accomplished and innovative musicians including Tim Strang (cello), Christine Beard (flute), Stacey Barelos (piano), and Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (voice).
Come early to experience newly created horror soundtracks composed by SOUNDRY Workshop participants!
Program
PRE by Stacey Barelos/Cory Johnson
Vollmond unter Null by Carola Bauckholt
temA by Helmut Lachenmann
A Beautiful Question by Amanda DeBoer Bartlett
Vox Balaenae by George Crumb
About the Generator Series: Presented by KANEKO and Omaha Under the Radar, the Generator Series will present events that investigate music’s relationship to our physical world, seeking the connections between sound and architecture, sound and natural landscapes, sound, and the human body, and more. Focusing on music by living composers, including sound improvisation and experimental composition, the Generator Series will be an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen, and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
About Omaha Under the Radar: Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. We celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.
Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than one dozen cities throughout the United States. We work to present a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions, and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. To make a tax-deductible donation in support of our programming efforts, visit our SUPPORT page.
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Summer Soundry Institute
Category: Education • Generator Series • Members • Performances | Season: Re•Purpose
Unleash your Creativity in Sound Exploration!
Soundry Institute is a 5-day summer intensive for any interested in exploring trends in modern classical music. Included are sessions on composition, improvisation, and professional development given by renowned Omaha Under the Radar Festival artists and guests. Participants also have the option to create original compositions that will be performed as part of the Omaha Under the Radar Festival!
Soundry Institute meets 10 am – 3 pm daily, July 22 – 26.
***please provide your own lunch***Soundry is designed for students ages 18 and up. High schoolers are eligible by request – please fill out this survey to find out if you’re eligible. Registration is required and space is limited! $125 General Admission for five days. $100 for KANEKO Members. Deadline to register is July 5th
Instructors
Guests and instructors are drawn from the phenomenal Omaha Under the Radar Festival line-up.Past guests/instructors
Alexa Dexa
Allison Balcetis
Anthony Donofrio
Chicago Academy of the Arts – New Music Ensemble
Danny Clay
David Smooke
Hasco Duo
Jamie Burmeister
Jason Webb
Jay Kreimer
Jeffrey Young
Jesse Langen
Leanna Keith
New Muse Duo
Paul Pinto
Ray EvanoffAbout Stacey Barelos
Omaha native Stacey Barelos is a performer and composer specializing in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Regarding her first solo release, The Midwest American Piano Project, the American Record Guide said, “Stacey Barelos…plays with authority and poetic nuance, her beautiful tone captured vividly in this warm recording…” As a composer, Stacey’s works have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe and Australia. In addition to her concert works, Dr. Barelos frequently writes pieces for her studio. Her recent article, “Composing for Your Students!” encourages other teachers to do the same. Currently, Dr. Barelos teaches piano and composition at the Omaha Conservatory and is the Education Director for the Omaha Under the Radar Festival. For more information, see her website, staceybarelos.com.About Omaha Under the Radar
Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. They celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than a dozen cities throughout the United States. They work to represent a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. Learn More ->
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Soundry Workshop: Thumb Pianos
Category: Education • Generator Series • Members • Performances | Season:
Use your creativity in instrument building!
Join on us May 16th at 6pm while we create our own, playable thumb pianos! No experience required! With classes created for adult learners, Soundry is directed by composer and pianist Stacey Barelos and includes expert instructors from Omaha and around the country.
About Stacey Barelos
Omaha native Stacey Barelos is a performer and composer specializing in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Regarding her first solo release, The Midwest American Piano Project, the American Record Guide said, “Stacey Barelos…plays with authority and poetic nuance, her beautiful tone captured vividly in this warm recording…” As a composer, Stacey’s works have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe and Australia. In addition to her concert works, Dr. Barelos frequently writes pieces for her studio. Her recent article, “Composing for Your Students!” encourages other teachers to do the same. Currently, Dr. Barelos teaches piano and composition at the Omaha Conservatory and is the Education Director for the Omaha Under the Radar Festival. For more information, see her website, staceybarelos.com.About Omaha Under the Radar
Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. They celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than a dozen cities throughout the United States. They work to represent a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. Learn More ->
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Sound & Sensor
Category: Generator Series • Performances | Season: Reality
When Data and Dance Converge.
Using their bodies as instruments, Obelus Movement and tbd. Dance Collective came together to perform data in a different light. Combining sensor technologies with contemporary movement, these two dance collectives interacted and inspired. The audience watched and listened as data, acquired directly from the dancers bodies produced and manipulated a sonic environment.
Obelus Movement
Obelus is a movement art collective based out of Hudson Valley NY and the Berkshires MA founded in 2016 by choreographer Claire Cuny and electro-acoustic sound artist Monte Weber. The collective employs technology to inspire contemporary methods of choreography and physical performance art. George Balanchine elucidated, “dance is music made visible.” Obelus augments this notion by exhibiting the dancer as the composer, the composition as the dancer. This is achieved through systems of sound design which acquire data directly from the dancers body to produce or manipulate sonic environments.
tbd. Dance Collective
tbd. Dance Collective is an Omaha based modern and contemporary dance collective founded in 2014 by a group of artists and dancers who wanted to create, learn, explore, and perform movement together. The idea of the collective developed organically based on a need for more consistent performance and choreographic opportunities for modern dancers in Nebraska. What began as an unknown, and self-made DIY dance project, quickly grew into an established and recognized fixture in the Omaha arts community.
Through organizations like KANEKO and the Under the Radar Festival, tbd. has been able to create performances that challenge audience perceptions of dance as an art form, and facilitate workshops that enrich people’s lives with movement and self expression. Our work is the result of collaborations and relationships we have fostered with artists throughout the community who specialize in lighting, sound, music, visual art, and film. Through these collaborations, tbd. has been able to expand upon the creative process of building choreography and produce multidisciplinary movement-based performances.
Our mission is to produce unique and quality art through movement, to collaborate with other artists throughout the community so that our work is both innovative and relevant, to encourage critical dialogue about choreography and performance, and continue the growth and support of modern/contemporary dance in Omaha.
Generator Series
A collaboration between KANEKO and Omaha Under the Radar, the Generator Series presents events that investigate music’s relationship to our physical world, seeking the connections between sound and architecture, sound and natural landscapes, sound and the human body, and more. Focusing on music by living composers, including sound improvisation and experimental composition, the Generator Series provides an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen, and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
Omaha Under the Radar
Omaha Under the Radar is an annual experimental performance festival in the Midwest. We celebrate cultural innovators with performances throughout the city of Omaha. The festival emerged from a desire to support innovative performers and creators living and working in the Midwest, and to connect this community to other performance communities throughout the United States.
Since the first festival, held in 2014, Omaha Under the Radar has presented over 200 artists from more than a dozen cities throughout the United States. We work to represent a multiplicity of genres, ideas, and identities through performances, talks, group discussions and educational opportunities. Omaha Under the Radar is a 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization. To make a tax-deductible donation in support of our programming efforts, visit our SUPPORT page.