Two Tickets

Owen/Cox Dance Group

with The People's Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City

December 11, 12 & 13

H&R Block Sity Stage Theater--Union Station

The Owen/Cox Dance Group brings together a "who's who" of Kansas City artists and musicians to breathe

new life into an old classic.  Fifteen musicians of the People's Liberation Big Band, horn sculptor Mark

Southerland, artist Peregrine Honig, and students from the Paseo Academy of the Performing Arts join in

presenting a familiar story that turns out to be not so familiar after all.  Returning to the original and notably

darker E.T.A Hoffman story, The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816), this production will feature original

music and radical rearrangements of Tchaikovsky melodies created by a host of innovative Kansas

City jazz musicians, as well as the award-winning choreography of Jennifer Owen.