The Butterfly Effect Sept 12, 2024

A FREE performance for the community:

Thurs Sept 12, 7:00pm at the Ent Center for the Arts.

The Butterfly Effect: Experimenting with Expression, combines music composition, physics, storytelling, poetry, dance, and painting; inspiring intellectual conversations between the arts and science. This project supports the creative momentum of Colorado Springs artist’s community and art-loving consumers at large.

The creative team includes: Ormao Dance Company, Emmy award winning visual artist Karen Mosbacher, and internationally recognized composer Ofer Ben-Amots.

Janet Johnson founded Ormao Dance Company in 1990 and has created a professional modern/contemporary dance company for the Pikes Peak Region. As Artistic Director, she has brought noted nationally recognized choreographers to the company, given young emerging choreographers fertile ground to launch exciting new works, and fostered a reputation for tremendous collaborations. As a choreographer, she has developed a wide repertoire of award-winning collaborative works including PREPRESS (2017) and Protest (2014).

Karen Mosbacher, EMMY® AWARD winning and Internationally known American artist, is a multidisciplinary artist, known for the synesthetic qualities in her work and for painting live with emerging and professional musical groups. Karen has been a part of the Colorado Springs arts community for nearly 3 years and currently exhibits painting, mixed media, encaustic works, sculpture, and installation work in Colorado Springs, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, and Santa Fe. Mosbacher was entered into The National Library of Israel alongside Dr. Ofer Ben-Amots for her paintings of many of his compositions, leads the Multae Manus (Many Hands) Collective mentoring new and emerging artists to elevate their own artwork. Collateral BEAUTY, first exhibited in 2023, is Mosbacher's politically stoked cry for the halt of silent abusive relationships, acclaimed important works by Jerry Saltz, Lead Art Critic for New York Magazine, and her friend.

Ofer Ben-Amots currently serves as Professor of Composition and Theory at the Colorado College Music Department and has been an active member of the Colorado Springs Creative Community since 1994. Ben-Amots studied with George Crumb at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his Ph.D. in music composition. His compositions are performed regularly in concert halls and festivals worldwide and he is the winner of major international competitions including the 1991 Kobe International Competition for Flute Composition in Japan, the 1994 “Vienna Modern,” The Aaron Copland Award, and many others. Ofer Ben-Amots’ works have been repeatedly recognized for their emotional and highly personal expression. The interweaving of folk elements with contemporary textures, along with his unique imaginative orchestration, creates the haunting dynamic tension that permeates and defines his musical language.