Libby Hanssen, Proust Eats a Sandwich

We all carry, even those most thoroughly self-convinced otherwise, an internal palette that colors every moment, past and future. The present is impossible to discern, inaccuracies rife, yet it is all we have. As the crimson blends with orange or umber or sky-blue: a muddied rust. It’s that rust that bleeds through everything, a patinated through-line, which may tarnish or make more desirable dependent on one’s perspective, regarded as either corrosion or a ripening.

Libby Hanssen, Special to The Kansas City Star

A dancer’s steady, isolated tread is interrupted, her elbow drawn back by an unseen energy.

With Icarian force, a man leaps around her. The woody timbre of the cello, underscored by a repetitious drum beat and layered backup vocals, accompanies a mournful voice.

This is the first music and dance rehearsal for “Memory Palace,” the Owen/Cox Dance Group’s world premiere on Saturday at the Spencer Theatre featuring New Orleans-based Belgian-American cellist/chanteuse Helen Gillet (see D1).

Kansas City Live

"Memory Palace" by the Owen/Cox Dance Group opens June 28th at the Helen F. Spencer Theatre, UMKC Performing Arts Center. Tickets range from $10-$20.