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Kacico Dance, Kansas City's Contemporary Dance Company is . . .
Don't wait another second to check us out ! ! ! Kacico Dance, Kansas City Contemporary Dance, is a not for profit professional modern dance company of the highest quality in Kansas City. Kacico presents public concerts and programs locally and regionally in a variety of presentational forms for audience enjoyment, enrichment, and cultural education. Its mission includes creating and performing excellence in contemporary dance and raising the level of contemporary dance in Kansas City and the mid-west region to national levels and national notice. Founded by Michelle Diane Brown, Kacico Dance grew under her artistic and executive direction for five seasons. As Artistic Director, Ms. Brown created and presented choreography that expressed a strong, fluid, exquisite physicality and a compositional cleverness. A review by Lisa Sagolla in the Kansas City Star (1/20/07) reads, "With her tickling trio, Moving Into Stillness [2007], like an actor directed to play 'boredom,' Michelle Diane Brown charged herself with a difficult task: to make a dance about stillness. But she succeeds admirably, finding vitality and visual interest within the making of the static body configurations." Currently in its sixth season, the artistic direction of the company has been taken over by four veteran dancers: Lindsay Spilker Tate, Allison McKinzie, Holly Harmison, and Maggie Osgood Nicholls. These four artists are dedicated to preserving and developing the artistic excellence of the company. Kacico creates and maintains a dance repertory of the highest quality facilitated by artistic skill, knowledge, creative questioning, experimentation, and collaboration. Kacico provides company dancers with a consistent, challenging training and rehearsal schedule allowing individual fulfillment of potential. The company perpetuates the existence, exploration, and education of modern dance and its developmental forms. Highlighting original work from other artists is a mainstay for Kacico Dance. Recent collaborators include choreographer Julie Rothschild (Boulder, CO), Kansas City musicians Dave Patmore, Mack Tilton, Karim Memi, Erik Karlsson, Rick Malsick, and Laura Lisbeth, and the KC Chamber Orchestra. Now that you have made a cyber connection with Kacico Dance, make a live, physical connection also. It is this live, physical connection that is the essence of dance as an art form. Performances, board meetings and other events are listed at event calendar. Plan to come and get involved. Ways to support Kacico Dance are highlighted in sponsorship/funding. Auditions, job opportunities, booking information, and contact information are found at contact/booking/auditions/jobs. How can you help? Take a moment and consider how you can physically connect with Kacico Dance. Don’t forget to join the Kacico Dance mailing list! We hope to see you at a performance in the near future!
Kacico Dance offers, with each performance, something exquisitely different, something cleverly new, and something amazingly great.What can Kacico Dance offer you?
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