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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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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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PASSAGES: In Praise of Wasting Time
Category: Free • KANEKO Core Programs • Lectures • Passages | Season: Influence
The value of wasting time.
The KANEKO, along with the University of Nebraska Omaha, welcomes distinguished physicist and bestselling author Alan Lightman for the spring session of our PASSAGES Literary Series.
Discussion will center around the ‘art’ of wasting time. A description of Lightman’s recent book In Praise of Wasting Time includes the themes for the evening:
We are all worried about wasting time. Especially in the West, we have created a frenzied lifestyle in which the twenty-four hours of each day are carved up, dissected, and reduce down to ten-minute units of efficiency. We take our iPhones and laptops with us on vacation. We check email at restaurants or our brokerage accounts while walking in the park. When the school day ends, our children are overloaded with “extras.” Our university curricula are so crammed our young people don’t have time to reflect on the material they are supposed to be learning. Yet in the face of our time-driven existence, a great deal of evidence suggests there is great value in “wasting time,” of letting the mind lie fallow for some periods, of letting minutes and even hours go by without scheduled activities or intended tasks.
Doors open at 6:30; please join us early to write down your questions for Lightman. A special addition to the program, internationally recognized fiddler Bonnie Rideout will begin the evening with an informal concert in connection with her creative process of ‘wasting time’.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
About Alan Lightman: “A scientist who is a humanist in the noblest sense of the word.” – Los Angeles Times
After serving on the faculty of Harvard University for a dozen years, Alan Lightman moved to MIT, where he became the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in the sciences and the humanities. In astrophysics, Lightman has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of black holes, radiation processes at the center of galaxies, and the foundation of Einstein’s theory of gravity.
Dozens of independent theatrical and musical production worldwide have been adapted from Lightman’s novel Einstein Dreams. An international bestseller, this book is one of the most widely used texts in universities today and has been translated into 30 languages. A prolific author, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, 2018, and the novel Three Flames, 2019.
Lightman’s appearance at KANEKO PASSAGES, which includes a discussion with expert panelists and the audience, will center around his book In Praise of Wasting Time, which was released in 2018.
See more about Alan Lightman here.
About the Panelists
Kevin Clouther serves as Coordinator of the UNO MFA in Writing Program. He’s an assistant Professor at the UNO Writer’s Workshop. Clouther’s story collection, We Were Flying to Chicago, was published by Catapult. His stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Puerto Del Sol, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, among other journals, and he has contributed essays to The Millions, NPR, Poets & Writers, Salon, and Tin House’s “Art of the Sentence.” He is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award.
Dr. Christine Cutucache is UNO’s Haddix Community Chair of Science, the Acting Director of the UNO STEM TRAIL Center, and Associate Professor of Biology. She is a tumor immunologist and science education convert. Consequently, her teaching and research interests range from cancer biology to discipline-based education research methods. She has published copious primary articles on her work, authored 3 textbooks, and is a strong advocate for undergraduate professional development.
Dr. Christopher Moore is UNO’s Haddix Community Chair in Physical Science and Associate Professor of Physics. Dr. Moore conducts research in physical science education and teacher preparation, focusing on how we learn/teach creativity and innovation in STEM Dr. Moore is author of the books Creating Scientists and Teaching Science Thinking (which was written at the UNO-Kaneko Library), over 40 peer-reviewed articles, and is co-author of the best-selling high-school curriculum Experience Chemistry. He has recently given invited lectures internationally on the parallels between sense-making in the sciences and humanities.
Bonnie Rideout: On stages from Scotland’s Edinburgh International Festival to America’s Kennedy Center, her unique style of Scottish fiddling has charmed audiences across the globe. Bonnie has been featured on the BBC, CBS, NPR’s Performance Today, Morning Edition and The Thistle and Shamrock. In addition to authoring seven music books for Mel Bay Publishing Company, Bonnie has recorded over fifteen solo albums. Her Scottish Christmas CD became a New York Times “Top Ten Holiday Best Seller.” Three of Bonnie’s recordings received Grammy nominations.
About PASSAGES: PASSAGES is the core literary program at KANEKO that seeks to intersect and expand all offerings and forms of creative literacy activities across the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan area. PASSAGES programming includes critical readings, interactive writing workshops and sessions, and events featuring accomplished and diverse authors.
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MOVEMENT Series: Workshop
Category: KANEKO Core Programs • MOVEMENT • Performances • Workshop | Season: Influence
Things That Move Us
Join tbd. dance collective for their first workshop within the MOVEMENT Series. During this interactive workshop, attendees will have the opportunity to not only learn about but also to engage with tbd.’s process of creating movement influenced by objects. The artists will demonstrate choreography created in response to various props and share how they were utilized within performance. Then, through a series of guided exercises and improvisation, attendees will interact with props + objects to create their own movement.
This workshop is open to all levels and abilities. No dance background is required to participate. Those who do not wish to participate in the movement portion, but would like to attend are invited and welcome to observe the process. Seats will be provided for all attendees. Space is very limited and registration is required.
Please wear clothing you feel comfortable moving around in, and bring water to stay hydrated! This workshop is comprised of both demonstration and interaction. The floor we will be moving on is concrete, therefore comfortable and supportive footwear is highly encouraged.
About MOVEMENT: Presented by KANEKO and tbd. Dance Collective, the MOVEMENT series will present site-specific, multidisciplinary performances focused on modern and contemporary dance. Performances will investigate the choreographic process, foster collaboration, and challenge audience perceptions of dance as an art form. There is a universal nature to the human condition; movement found within dance can be one of the most powerful tools of communication we possess and provide the medium in which we connect.
About tbd. Dance Collective: tbd. is a non-profit, modern + contemporary dance collective founded by a group of artists who wanted to create, explore, and perform movement together. Operating under the belief that movement can be a platform for communication and connection, it is our mission to provide accessible dance experiences through performance and education that encourage dialogue and challenge perceptions of dance as an art form.
With a creative process + vision built around exploration, we work with artists and organizations throughout the community to produce multidisciplinary movement based productions that feature site specific choreography and unique collaborations. Our work is highly imaginative, diverse in content and structure, and seeks to discover the possibilities for performance within unconventional spaces.
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Giving Tuesday 2019
Category: Education • Exhibitions • KANEKO Core Programs | Season: Influence
Pick your passion at KANEKO!
Creativity begins with an idea — seeing things differently. Our purpose is exploring the creative process — how a new idea is born into the arts, sciences, and philosophy. There is no restriction for creative activity. Imagination has complete freedom. Supporting and promoting freedom in creativity is our mission.
KANEKO relies on people like you in order to provide world-class exhibitions, programs, events, and workshops! KANEKO is powered by community support, and there are diverse ways to get involved. From attending an exhibition, program, or workshop to volunteering your time, becoming a member, and providing program support, KANEKO needs you!
Make your year-end gift to KANEKO to help us continue to explore the creative process! Thank you for all that you do for our creative community in Omaha!
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GREAT MINDS Lecture Series: Impactful Art
Category: Education • Great Minds Series • KANEKO Core Programs • Lectures • Performances | Season: Influence
Madama Butterfly: The Suicide that Stays News
KANEKO and Applied Underwriters, Inc. are proud to present the 2019 GREAT MINDS Lecture Series, where the brightest thinkers address topics with fresh, provocative perspectives.
Art has always had the power to spur social controversy, change political and social views, heighten public awareness, and ultimately change perceptions and sensibilities in matters of social impact. Puccini’s masterpiece, Madama Butterfly, was no different when it premiered in 1904 and as it continues to play today in theaters around the world.
For this lecture, you will be exposed to stellar performances of excerpts from Madama Butterfly, followed by a leadership panel who will discuss the artwork and its social implications. The panel will be led by Dr. Bette Talvacchia, Emerita Professor of Art History, and Jenny Rroji, Art Director and Pianist.
A special feature of Jun Kaneko’s brilliant stage and costume design work for Madama Butterfly will be on display during the presentation.
Featuring Emerita Professor of Art History and Great Minds lecturer: Dr. Bette Talvacchia
Featuring a quartet and pianist performing excerpts from Madama Butterfly:
Danielle Pastin, Soprano
Monika Krajevska, Mezzo
Mark Womach, Baritone
Francesco Pavesi, Tenor
Jenny Rroji, Art Director and Pianist
About the Great Minds Lecture Series: The Great Minds Lecture Series highlights innovators and original thought leaders in fields relevant to KANEKO programs. This unique lecture series engages KANEKO members and visitors with “Great Minds” who are established and recognized by their peers within their respective fields or disciplines. Whether science, philosophy, or the arts, Great Minds speakers have demonstrated leadership within their fields and have a record of outstanding creativity and innovation. Great Minds speakers embody a creative philosophy that aligns directly with the mission of KANEKO focused on creative investigation.
About Applied Underwriters: Applied Underwriters, Omaha’s premier employer, is proud to support KANEKO’s Great Minds Lecture Series. The company is a leading provider of insurance and business services, serving thousands of customers nationwide. Applied’s operations campus is located in Omaha and currently employs nearly 700 people. Applied is dedicated to the presentation of public discourse on topics of high intellectual interest and impact. For more information, please visit auw.com.
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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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PASSAGES Series: Matt McCarthy, MD
Category: Free • KANEKO Core Programs • Lectures • Passages | Season: Influence
Superbugs
The University of Nebraska at Omaha and the KANEKO welcome bestselling author Matt McCarthy for the fall season of our newest core literary series, PASSAGES. Pivoting off of topics from his recent bestseller Superbugs, McCarthy and a panel of local educators, medical professionals, writers, and ethicists will gather to discuss the writing process, medical ethics and how our public institutions are serving us. The event will be held at the KANEKO, Tuesday, October 8th at 7pm.
The appearance of Dr. Matthew McCarthy is underwritten by the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Arts & Sciences, with assistance from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Office of Academic Affairs. Additional sponsors include the UNO College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media, and UNO Medical Humanities.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
About PASSAGES: PASSAGES is the core literary program at KANEKO that seeks to intersect and expand all offerings and forms of creative literary activities across the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan area. Passages programming includes critical readings, interactive writing workshops and sessions, and events featuring accomplished and diverse authors.
About Matt McCarthy: McCarthy is the author of the national bestsellers,The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly and Odd Man Out as well as his most recent book, Superbugs. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell and a staff physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where he serves on the Ethics Committee. His work has appeared inSports Illustrated, Slate, The New England Journal of Medicine, and Deadspin. He reviews nonfiction for USA Today and is editor-in-chief of Current Fungal Infection Reports.
About the Panelists
Amy Haddad: Amy Marie Haddad, PhD, MFA, RN is Professor Emerita in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University. Her academic publications include: Health Professional and Patient Interaction (8 th ed., Elsevier, 2014) with Drs. Ruth Purtilo and Regina Doherty, Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics (3 rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2017) with Drs. Robert Veatch and E.J. Last and Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics – Decision-Making, Principles, and Cases (2 nd ed., Oxford University Press, 2014) with Drs. Robert Veatch and Dan English. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in the American Journal of Nursing, Fetishes: Literary Journal of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Janus Head, Journal of Medical Humanities, Touch, the Bellevue Literary Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Persimmon Tree.
Jacob Dahlke: Jacob Dahlke is a clinical ethicist and the Director of the Office of Healthcare Ethics at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, NE. Jacob is a graduate of the Bioethics Program at Union Graduate College – Mt. Sinai School of Medicine and has additionally contributed to the medical ethics field in Vermont, Colorado, and at Creighton University’s Center for Health Policy and Ethics. Jacob’s primary interests in bioethics include advance care planning, LGBTQ+ and feminist ethics, and healthcare professional wellness as it relates to moral distress and moral injury.
Joseph McCaffrey: Dr. Joseph McCaffrey is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and a member of the Medical Humanities Faculty. His research interests lie in the philosophy of neuroscience/cognitive science, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind. McCaffrey is interested in epistemological issues in cognitive neuroscience (particularly neuroimaging), and in how empirical approaches such as cognitive psychology and neuropsychology can inform traditional issues in the philosophy of mind. He is currently working on how functional localization can succeed in complex systems like brains (or gene networks), whether neuroimaging experiments can be used to test psychological theories, and whether brain research compels a revision of psychological kinds, a movement known as “cognitive ontology revision” in the neuroscientific literature.
McCaffrey has broad teaching interests in the philosophy of neuroscience/cognitive science, moral psychology, philosophy of the biomedical sciences (bioethics, neuroethics, philosophy of psychiatry, etc.), philosophy of biology, and ethics. Prior to joining the University of Nebraska at Omaha, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Washington University in St. Louis’ Department of Philosophy and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program. McCaffrey completed his Ph.D. in the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science in 2016.
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MOVEMENT Series: process
Category: KANEKO Core Programs • MOVEMENT • Performances | Season: Re•Purpose
Explore the MOVEMENT Process.
As part of the MOVEMENT Series, KANEKO and tbd. dance collective present process: an evening exploring and discussing the development of past, present, and future site-specific productions + choreographic work of tbd. Audience members will be lead through KANEKO galleries to experience a collection of past performances, as well as demonstrations of movement created in response to both objects and exhibition. The evening will include an artist talk with members + collaborators of tbd., giving sight into the creative process of tbd. dance collective when developing movement-based productions.
Limited tickets are available for this performance. Once tickets are sold out, there will not be a waitlist or ticket resale. The majority of this program is conducted by being led through the gallery spaces, ending in a seated portion.
About MOVEMENT: Presented by KANEKO and tbd. Dance Collective, the MOVEMENT series will present site-specific, multidisciplinary performances focused on modern and contemporary dance. Performances will investigate the choreographic process, foster collaboration, and challenge audience perceptions of dance as an art form. There is a universal nature to the human condition; movement found within dance can be one of the most powerful tools of communication we possess and provide the medium in which we connect.
About tbd. Dance Collective: tbd. is a non-profit, modern + contemporary dance collective founded by a group of artists who wanted to create, explore, and perform movement together. Operating under the belief that movement can be a platform for communication and connection, it is our mission to provide accessible dance experiences through performance and education that encourage dialogue and challenge perceptions of dance as an art form.
With a creative process + vision built around exploration, we work with artists and organizations throughout the community to produce multidisciplinary movement based productions that feature site specific choreography and unique collaborations. Our work is highly imaginative, diverse in content and structure, and seeks to discover the possibilities for performance within unconventional spaces.
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GREAT MINDS Lecture Series: Phil Hansen
Category: Education • Great Minds Series • KANEKO Core Programs • Lectures | Season: Re•Purpose
Embrace the Shake
How can physical limitations drive creativity and innovation?
Taking on the idea of Re•Purpose in a new and innovative way, KANEKO and Applied Underwriters, Omaha’s premier employer invite you to join in an evening of creative discussion and interactive art-making with internationally recognized multimedia artist Phil Hansen.
As an art student, Hansen’s intense style of pointillism led to a tremor in his hand and a diagnosis of nerve damage. Devastated, he discontinued his pursuit of art, until a neurologist suggested he “embrace the shake.” That piece of advice sent Phil on a quest to invent different approaches to making art by embracing personal and universal limitations.
Working with a broad array of mediums such as vinyl records, tree branches, and chocolate chips, Hansen has re-invented what pointillism is within his creative process and offers an inspirational and unique perspective on the re-purposing of material and thought all in one.
Hansen has spoken at TEDTalk 2013 Conference and the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, and has been featured on PBS, BBC, CNN, and the Discovery Channel. Phil was the official artist for 51st Grammy Awards and has had works commissioned by Disney, The Rockefeller Foundation, Skype, Mazda, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. His work is now on exhibit at KANEKO through August 24, 2019.
About Phil Hansen: Phil Hansen is an internationally recognized multimedia artist, speaker, author, and innovator known for crashing irreverently through conventional boundaries. He is widely known for his videos that document the creative process showing millions that art is action, not just result, and that restrictions can spur innovation rather than constrain it. Hansen is the founder of Goodbye Art Academy, providing high quality and free art education videos to teachers and students everywhere. For more information, please visit Philinthecircle.com.
About Applied Underwriters: Applied Underwriters, Omaha’s premier employer, is proud to support KANEKO’s Great Minds Lecture Series. The company is a leading provider of insurance and business services, serving thousands of customers nationwide. Applied’s operations campus is located in Omaha and currently employs nearly 700 people. Applied is dedicated to the presentation of public discourse on topics of high intellectual interest and impact. For more information, please visit auw.com.
About the GREAT MINDS Lecture Series: The GREAT MINDS Lecture Series highlights innovators and original thought leaders in fields relevant to KANEKO programs. This unique lecture series engages KANEKO members and visitors with “Great Minds” who are established and recognized by their peers within their respective fields or disciplines. Whether science, philosophy, or the arts, Great Minds speakers have demonstrated leadership within their fields and have a record of outstanding creativity and innovation. Great Minds speakers embody a creative philosophy that aligns directly with the mission of KANEKO focused on creative investigation.