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tbd. Dance Collective Presents: Making Space
Category: Performances | Season: Passion & Obsession
tbd. Dance Collective performed Making Space: An Evening of Curated Choreography.
In addition to the Making Space performance, tbd. hosted a 3-day modern dance theater workshop beginning on Thursday February 16.
Performance
Making Space is an annual event hosted by tbd. Dance Collective featuring performance and choreography created by both local and regional artists. Artists involved seek to experiment with the creative process of movement based performance through collaboration, varying thematic elements, and site-specific guidelines within the space. The goal of Making Space is to foster an interdisciplinary environment for movement artists to present new work, to encourage dialogue about choreography, and support the growth and appreciation of modern/contemporary dance within the community of Omaha.
Workshop
Presented by tbd. Dance Collective, in conjunction with Making Space, come experience modern dance in this fun and accessible 3-day modern dance theater workshop with Nichol Mason Lazenby. Classes will introduce basic technical skills of modern dance, improvisation, and choreography. We will investigate the intuitive nature of the body and discover the multitude of ways thought and emotion can be expressed through movement. Explore and create while connecting with the community. This workshop is appropriate for anyone with a dance, movement or theater background. Open to ALL LEVELS. You will experience new ways to move your body along with the creative benefits that come from this art form. An informal showing will follow on Saturday afternoon.
About tbd.
tbd. 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. Learn More ->
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Art rEVOLVEd: Local Art & Local Business: Connected. Empowered. Inspired.
Category: Exhibitions • Free • Lectures | Season: Passion & Obsession
Art rEVOLVEd: Local Art & Local Business: Connected. Empowered. Inspired.
Omaha-based artists Andrea Schmitz Stein, Daniel Boylan, Bart Vargas, Watie White, and Mary Zicafoose presented on their respective creative processes and approaches to the visual arts. Each of these artists are represented by Revolve Fine Art, an Omaha-based public benefit corporation focused on promoting local artists to corporate clients via art leasing, sales, and commissions. In addition to the artist presentations, Revolve Fine Art presented their philosophy that living with art improves life, at home and at work, and extol their efforts to enrich our local artists and our local businesses.
Attendees had the opportunity to learn the benefits of corporate art leasing as well as the artists’ benefits of representation by Revolve.
About Revolve Fine Art
Revolve Fine Art is a public benefit corporation based in Omaha, Nebraska, that believes in the power, inspiration, and beauty that art brings to the world. We’ve made it our mission to represent and promote local artists in an accessible, alternative way: by leasing their artwork to local businesses. Leasing provides a 100% tax-deductible alternative to purchasing art that not only supports our local artists, but also infuses your work environment with original works of art. Enriching our local artists and our local businesses. We believe that artists are valuable, enriching members of our community and we are committed to supporting their work: work that opens our minds and our thoughts, ignites our conversation and our creativity, and brightens our life.
We believe that living with art improves life; when you look for beauty, you will find inspiration. Galleries and museums serve this worthy purpose, but are removed from most people’s daily lives. We believe the experience of inspiration should be accessible, not just in a local art museum, not just in your home, but right there on your wall during your day, at your workplace. Because there is no aesthetic quite as personal and as gratifying as a work of original art. We believe that there is value in the alternative. Rather than asking, “What can business do for the arts?” We ask, “What can the arts do for business?” Consequently, we bring our virtual gallery and our art consultants to you. We offer a corporate art leasing program that provides your business the opportunity to display original art in revolving exhibitions without capital investment.
About the Artists
Andrea Schmitz Stein – Emerging Artist
Andrea Schmitz Stein is from Omaha, Nebraska. Her current works of art predominantly consist of large oil paintings of abstract and animal imagery created with a thick impasto technique which is the cohesive element through out her work. Her paintings reflect what she is attracted to in everyday life: vibrant colors, textures and patterns.She embraces the creative process and the constant evolution of her painting. Andrea obtained a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from University of Nebraska at Omaha. You can currently find her working at her studio located at the Bench in downtown Omaha.
Daniel Boylan
Daniel Boylan was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1940. He studied at the University of Nebraska at Omaha before moving to California in 1961. He returned to Omaha in 1984 to paint full time and exhibit his work in galleries throughout the Midwest. Daniel’s exploration of painting takes him through the many worlds of nature: the Midwestern landscape, the city scene and ultimately to the subject of the human figure.
Bart Vargas
Bart Vargas is from Bellevue, Nebraska. He received his BFA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and his MFA at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He has exhibited throughout the world, most recently in the Fourth International & “From Waste To Art” 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Watie White
Working as a painter, printmaker and public artist, I have been based in Omaha since 2006. My work has been shown internationally including at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Ark), Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN) and Telfair Museums (Savannah, GA). My site-specific social practice has led to large-scale public art projects with area nonprofits: Habitat For Humanity-Omaha, InCOMMON Community Development and Justice For Our Neighbors-NE.
Mary Zicafoose
Nebraska artist Mary Zicafoose is a master at weft ikat, a complex design dye/weave process, that has stimulated new directions in the field of contemporary tapestry. Her work has been represented in the International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland; Museo de Textil, Oaxaca, Mexico; China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou and the collections of over a dozen United States Embassy’s abroad.
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The Generator Series Presents: Sound And: Nature
Category: Free • Performances | Season: Passion & Obsession
KANEKO & Omaha Under the Radar present, the Generator Series.
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 is an outlet for non-commercial music that asks questions about how we listen, and how we interact with sound in the 21st century.
The Generator Series kicked off April 23 featuring internationally recognized Ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago) and Omaha Under the Radar festival artists. The evening featured music and soundscapes that reflect on the natural world and our relationship to sound environments.
Musicians
Ben Melsky – Harp
Matthew Oliphant – Horn
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett – SopranoAbout 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.
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ætherplough: Genesis 2.0
Category: Performances | Season: Passion & Obsession
As part of the Passion & Obsession season, ætherplough performed a variety of dance styles that provided tools and infrastructure to encourage risk-taking and innovation.
Genesis 2.0: ætherplough’s artistic director Wai Yim revisited the well-known creation story by re-examining its different themes through a variety of dance forms, including butoh, aerial silk, burlesque and modern dance. The show featured provocative costumes by Dan Richters, the Omaha designer known for his collections involving beautiful, seductive silicone molds. Omaha favorite, Roxanne Nielsen, was back as a choreographer and performer, alongside an ensemble of artists including Jorge Ambriz, Karen Bahr, Erin Clark, Steffani Jiroux, Jeremy Sczepaniak and Nick Zadina. Jun Kaneko’s graphic paintings were the backdrop to Eden, his sculptures represented the tree of knowledge and the tree of life.About ætherplough.
About ætherplough
Founded in 2008 by Susann Suprenant and Thom Sibbitt, ætherplough was formed to add context and content to our growing local community of multi-disciplinary artists in order to engage Omaha in the national contemporary performance dialogue. We create, produce, and present contemporary performance in Omaha. Learn More -> -
Koterba & Becka: A Picture And A Thousand Words
Category: Free • Lectures | Season: Passion & Obsession
Tom Becka and Jeff Koterba discuss their craft, and how, when the dust settles at the end of the day, they can agree to disagree as friends.
You’ve seen Tom Becka on TV and have heard him on radio. Larger-than- life personality, trademarked voice espousing his opinions on the latest controversy. You’ve seen Jeff Koterba’s cartoons, pen and ink arrows quietly sharpened at his drawing table and directed at newsmakers. Different mediums. With sometimes differing points of view. But through their words and images they tell a story in the form of commentary—concise and to the point. How do they do it, day after day? Where do they get their ideas? Competitors with Omaha’s—and the country’s—best interest at heart.
Tom Becka
Tom Becka can be seen every night during Omaha’s Fox 42 News at 9 giving his unique views on what’s happening in Omaha and the rest of the world. His Becka’s Beat can be humorous, poignant, serious, or whimsical. But they are always informative, entertaining and on point. Becka’s Beat is also available on demand at Fox42KPTM.com. He is also a nationally-recognized radio talk show host currently heard Monday-Friday on legendary Kansas City radio station KCMO. Formerly of KFAB and KOIL in Omaha, Tom has been named one of the Top 100 talk show hosts in America ten times by Talkers magazine and one of the Top 25 local hosts in America by Newsmax magazine. He has also been a fill-in host for nationally-syndicated radio shows and on WLS in Chicago and many others.
Prior to his career in radio and TV, Tom spent a number of years traveling the country telling stories as a stand up comic. He performed with such greats as Jerry Seinfeld, Lewis Black, Sam Kinnison, Darrel Hammond, Drew Carey, and the rock band, Chicago to name a few. He is also author of the Amazon bestselling book, There’s No Business Without The Show, where he applies the communication skills he learned as a stand up comic to the world of sales and business. A man with varied accomplishments and life experiences, Tom is not afraid to speak out when others remain silent.
Jeff Koterba
Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, Jeff Koterba has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society—2002—and has twice placed second in the National Headliner Awards—2000 and 2012. In 2009, 2010, 2013, and 2016, he won first place for editorial cartooning in the Great Plains Journalism Awards. His cartoons are distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, and on CNN. In 2010, two of Koterba’s original drawings flew aboard space shuttle Discovery. His memoir, Inklings (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) traces Koterba’s path on his journey to become a cartoonist, and more so, to rediscover the love of his family that was there from the start. Inklings was named a Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction book of 2009. Entertainment Weekly called Inklings ”…a powerful and moving portrait of an artist.” Koterba’s band, Prairie Cats, has performed at the South by Southwest music festival, The Derby in Hollywood, Windows on the World at the World Trade Center, and at the National Cartoonists Society Reuben awards. -
Eko Nova: Tumble, Rag, Freylakh!
Category: Performances | Season: Passion & Obsession
KANEKO and the Omaha Chamber Music Society presented the third performance in the Eko Nova concert series, Tumble, Rag, Freylakh!
Tumble, Rag, Freylakh! took dance forms from both ancient and modern roots and transformed them through contemporary music. We heard works that stretched the idea of inversion, gymnastic feats of motion, Hasidic celebratory influences, and the ever-growing, ever-changing face of jazz. Kansas City-based musicians John Klinghammer, Noah Geller, Mari Yoshinaga and Sean Chen proved that you don’t need to know the steps to recognize the groove.
Musicians
Sean Chen – Piano
Noah Geller – Violin
Mari Yoshinaga – Percussion
John Klinghammer – ClarinetAbout Eko Nova
The Omaha Chamber Music Society and KANEKO’s Eko Nova concert series introduces Omaha audiences to some of the most innovative and inspiring musical works written today – music that looks outward with an openness to a myriad of genres, styles, and forms. With virtuosic performances from the region’s finest musicians, plus guest appearances by extraordinary artists from around the country, these events appeal to a diverse crowd, from lovers of contemporary art, to classical music fans and beyond.
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Eko Nova: Wine & Chocolate
Category: Performances | Season: Passion & Obsession
The Eko Nova concert series continued with a special pre-Valentine’s day event, Eko Nova: Wine & Chocolate.
Throughout Eko Nova’s Fiery Red musical sets, guests sampled sublime pairings of wine and chocolate provided by renowned Lange Winery and STAM Chocolaterie. We experienced inspiring musical works and learned how the respective flavor bodies of wine and chocolate meet on your palette for an unexpected and delightful experience.
The Omaha Chamber Music Society and KANEKO’s Eko Nova concert series introduces Omaha audiences to some of the most innovative and inspiring musical works written today – music that looks outward with an openness to a myriad of genres, styles, and forms. With virtuosic performances from the region’s finest musicians, plus guest appearances by extraordinary artists from around the country, these events appeal to a diverse crowd, from lovers of contemporary art, to classical music fans and beyond.
Firey Red Performers:
Susanna Perry Gilmore – Violin
Victor Asuncion – Piano
Greg Clinton – Cello
Carmelo Galante – ClarinetPieces:
“Piano Trio” by Jennifer Higdon
“Contrasts” by Bela Bartok
“Meditation” by Aaron Jay Kernis
“Coat-hanger Music” by Natalie Williams
About Eko Nova
The Omaha Chamber Music Society and KANEKO’s Eko Nova concert series introduces Omaha audiences to some of the most innovative and inspiring musical works written today – music that looks outward with an openness to a myriad of genres, styles, and forms. With virtuosic performances from the region’s finest musicians, plus guest appearances by extraordinary artists from around the country, these events appeal to a diverse crowd, from lovers of contemporary art, to classical music fans and beyond.
About Lange Estate Winery
Lange Estate is known for crafting beautifully balanced wines from fruit grown on the winery Estate, located in the heart of the prestigious Dundee Hills appellation. To further supplement our case production, the Langes purchase additional fruit from the best vineyards in the surrounding area. Long-standing relationships with these blue-ribbon sites have helped the winery establish a well-deserved reputation for consistency and complexity in the wines.
About STAM
In 1913, the Stam family opened Chocolaterie Stam in Holland. Over 80 years later, in 1997, founder Jacobus Stam’s grandson, Ton Stam, brought the same traditional recipes for fine European chocolates to the United States when he opened the first Chocolaterie Stam store in Des Moines. Today, the same family is operating the same company on both sides of the pond. Chocolaterie Stam was introduced following the success of the Stam family bakery in Holland after gaining a reputation for quality pastries and chocolates. All of the chocolate bonbons distributed in the US are prepared by Dutch Master Chocolatier, Erik Stam, at the company’s facility on Bell Avenue in Des Moines.
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Intangible: A tbd. Dance Collective Performance
Category: Performances | Season: Passion & Obsession
Why do we collect and consume art? Where does obsession originate in the mind? Can something intangible be collected?
As a part of KANEKO’S “Passion & Obsession: From the Collection” exhibition, tbd. dance collective created an original performance exploring the idea of movement as an intangible collection, able to be viewed, but only truly stored in the mind. Through movement, lighting, and sound, tbd. transformed the performance space into the mind of the artist. Within this new space, the audience observed the artist firsthand as they obsessively consumed and recalled movement in an attempt to build an intangible collection.
About tbd.
tbd. 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.
About Closeness
Todd Fink (born Todd Baechle) and wife Orenda Fink converged first on tour, then in love and now in music. CLOSENESS, the couple’s first group together, is the result of two incredibly talented musicians melding in life and in art. Both halves of this new project have work spanning a variety of venerated musical outfits. Todd is most notably the frontman of The Faint, while Orenda is best known as one-half of the slick Azure Ray, and has credits including Moby, Bright Eyes, Paul Kalkbrenner, Eric Bachmann, Delerium, Sparklehorse, and Isaac Brock.Their debut work, which Todd recorded, produced and mixed in his home studio, is ripe with dreamlike scenarios, skirting the edge of otherworldliness. Pulsating rhythms boom and break around futuristic vocals from both. Together, they create a unified archetype that is moody, therapeutic and deeply inspired by the most basic questions about life, meaning, love and death.
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KANEKO Open Space Soirée 2016
Category: Performances • Soirée | Season: Passion & Obsession
The third annual KANEKO Open Space Soirée on Friday was November 11 from 6 – 9 p.m.
Attendees were the first to experience the upcoming KANEKO exhibition, From the Collection: Passion and Obsession. They enjoyed rarely exhibited work that represents the passion of artists from around the world and the obsession of those who love it. The Grey Plume served one of a kind flavors using seasonal ingredients to parallel the exhibition’s themes of passion and obsession.
The KANEKO Open Space Soirée is the organization’s annual fundraising event, with all proceeds benefiting KANEKO programming and operations. Event Chairs are Mary Lou Brasee and Polina Schlott.
Thank you to our KANEKO Soirée Event Planning Committee!
Interested in supporting KANEKO with a sponsorship? Contact Elisabeth at elisabeth@thekaneko.org.