Overview
Owen/Cox Dance Group's mission is to create new music and dance collaborations, to present high-quality contemporary dance performances with live music, and to engage as wide an audience as possible through affordable live performance, education and outreach programs.
With this mission in mind, founders Jennifer Owen and Brad Cox bring together some of Kansas City's most talented artists, representing a variety of genres, to perform contemporary dance with live music. With diverse backgrounds ranging from the Bolshoi Ballet and the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, to Alvin Ailey and Dave Brubeck, these dancers and musicians form a highly skilled and multi-faceted corps. The collaborative results speak for themselves: fresh and vibrant new works that are classical in form, but contemporary in expression.
With this mission in mind, founders Jennifer Owen and Brad Cox bring together some of Kansas City's most talented artists, representing a variety of genres, to perform contemporary dance with live music. With diverse backgrounds ranging from the Bolshoi Ballet and the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, to Alvin Ailey and Dave Brubeck, these dancers and musicians form a highly skilled and multi-faceted corps. The collaborative results speak for themselves: fresh and vibrant new works that are classical in form, but contemporary in expression.
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"...an innovative company filled with energy and drive, fine dancing, and careful performing." - Rhode Island NPR
"This performance was a clear indicator that Owen’s movement vocabulary is expansive and she possesses an uncanny ability to create gripping choreography and innovative partnering work." - KC Metropolis
"Kansas City’s Owen/Cox Dance Group brings to the stage an intriguing blend of classical and contemporary influences. But perhaps more importantly, the company pursues that approach while striking a balance between profundity and fun." - KC Studio
The Owen/Cox experience is one not to be missed, and one of the great examples of creative collaboration that Kansas City has to offer." - KC Metropolis
"This performance was a clear indicator that Owen’s movement vocabulary is expansive and she possesses an uncanny ability to create gripping choreography and innovative partnering work." - KC Metropolis
"Kansas City’s Owen/Cox Dance Group brings to the stage an intriguing blend of classical and contemporary influences. But perhaps more importantly, the company pursues that approach while striking a balance between profundity and fun." - KC Studio
The Owen/Cox experience is one not to be missed, and one of the great examples of creative collaboration that Kansas City has to offer." - KC Metropolis
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Co-Founder, artistic director
Jennifer Owen is the Artistic Director of Owen/Cox Dance Group, an ensemble she co-founded with composer Brad Cox in 2007. She has choreographed over fifty new works for Owen/Cox Dance Group, including two commissions by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and works commissioned by Island Moving Co. of Newport, RI, Kansas City Dance Festival, Kansas City Baroque Consortium, and Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. She has also created nine new works for Kansas City Ballet's In the Wings choreographic workshop, and a winning entry for the 2006 Columbus Choreography Project. Owen is the recipient of a 2000 Princess Grace Honorarium. Prior to founding Owen/Cox Dance Group, Owen enjoyed a 13-year international ballet career. After training with Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, School of American Ballet, and the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, she went on to dance with the Russian State Ballet, Moscow Renaissance Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, BalletMet, and was a guest artist with the National Ballet of Turkmenistan. She has performed principal roles in Giselle, Don Quixote, George Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux and Donizetti Variations, and the central pas de deux in Todd Bolender's Arena.
take the stage artistic director
Jeramy Zimmerman brings decades of teaching experience to Take the Stage. Her teaching credentials include working with AileyCamp Baltimore, creating educational materials for the Kennedy Center, being a teaching artist in the New York City public schools, and 20 years of teaching yoga and meditation to court-involved youth. She has worked to inspire and uplift students through dance. Jeramy is a dancemaker, performer, and producer. Since returning to Kansas City from New York City in 2016, she has continued to create work and build community. She currently co-produces Making Moves with Kyle Mullins and recently completed a Charlotte Street Artist Residency.