Image: Michael Lewanski rehearsing in Omaha. Photo by Aleksandr Karjaka. This past Wednesday, since it was the relatively calm day before the Omaha Under the Radar festival actually began, I went for a bike ride in Bellevue, Nebraska. Living in Chicago for the past 10 years, I am a very avid biker, probably out of a sense of a maniacal desperation to enjoy the few months there that have weather tolerable for a transplanted southerner. Looking at my GPS at the end of my ride

Movement created alongside live cello and violin music, abstract images resembling neural networks projected onto the bodies of dancers donning mad scientist goggles, and a dancer being transported across stage through a series of human log rolls and somersaults. These are a few of the things the audience can expect during tbd. dance collective’s performance on July 11th at Sokol Auditorium as part of the Omaha Under the Radar Festival. We have an incredibly diverse and uni

Guitarist Jesse Langen has arrived in Omaha, and will be performing and teaching throughout the week. A look inside the mind of a touring musician: Right Now: Right now I’m on a train from Chicago to Omaha. I got invited to teach and play at the Under the Radar festival; naturally I would end up in Omaha, teach, and play. Sometimes life interferes with these plans and decisions, but of course it is wonderful when the great or beautiful things we want come to be. A week fro

Michael Lewnski offers his thoughts on Luciano Berio's "Folk Songs," which will be performed Saturday July 11 at KANEKO. Find more of Lewanski's essays on his website: http://www.michaellewanski.com/ First, I’ll try to generalize. The Folk Songs by Luciano Berio are really hardly either – by Berio or folksongs. (But already we run into problems with this statement – Nos. 6 and 7, “La donna ideale” and “Ballo” are, in fact, both freely composed settings of traditional Italia