Each form of expression is a facet of the spherical self, combining perfectly as a whole. As a dancer, choreographer, spoken word artist, visual artist, capoeirista, and aerialist, my work interlaces multiple art forms and performance art techniques. Through this combination of cultural experimentation within classical structures and movement, ambiances emerge harmoniously from a clashing frenetic landscape.
By drawing a lifeline between both refined and organic movements, my vision is to demonstrate that all forms have valid ubiquitous inspiration. My most recent works weave contemporary dance with capoeira and aerial acrobatics, characterizing a symbiotic relationship between feminine grace and masculine strength. When these aspects are combined, they generate something new, unique and pure.
Compositions of incongruent forms reveal an intuitive connection. Art is interlaced; everything is an essence of everything. Every motion, sound and vision is connected and inspired by the same energy…the impetus for the artistic journey.
"Charmer" - Aerial Straps - Folly Theater, Kansas City, MO
"Strange Fruit" - Aerial Silks - Lyric Theater, Kansas City, MO
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Background
After returning home from collegiate studies in New Orleans, she began creating space for her voice to be heard through self-produced spoken word and multi-media performances in Kansas City during the 1990s. In 2001, Jade began studying Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian dance form, from professors and masters in Brazil. In 2006, after years of training and teaching, she re-emerged on the performance circuit as a choreographer and dancer with Quixotic. In 2007, Jade began aerial acrobatics training with nationally renowned circus arts teacher, Lynn Coleman where her repertoire now includes aerial dance.
Awards and Recognitions
ArtsKC Awards 2011 – Proposal Writer Awarded as a Featured Performer
ArtsKC Inspiration Award 2009 – Funding for original design for performance
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey 2009 – Ailey Camp Culmination Performance
Artist Inc. Workshop Spring 2009 – Artist for intensive entrepreneurial workshops
“Sentenced to the Arts” 2004-2007 - Showcased Lead Artist
Missouri Arts Council 2004 – Artist in Residence, Northeast High School
Kansas Arts Commission 2000-2002 – Artist in Residence,Wyandotte High School
Performance Experience
Voler – Thieves of Flight - Aerial Dance Performances Choreographer, Performer, Rigger, Web Developer, Marketing, Planning Committee and Co-Artistic Director and Co-Producer
Masquerade Ball MsTique Show ArtsKC Awards KCSOB Review Turn On the Heat! Leukemia Fundraiser Cabaret for the Cure Spectacular! Spectacular! Busker Festival Cabaret Voler BDU Burlesque Revival Blue Summer Eclectic Night of Fame RAW Artopia AIDS Walk Benefit Ito’s Birthday Bash Britney Bash Edmonson Wedding Masquerade Ball KCUMB Vegas Show Thee Water Moccasins Nightworld Turn On the Heat! Mini Cooper Halloween Party Blue Ribbon Entertainment MOD Awards Jones Wedding Busker Festival Ailey Camp Performance Flex Clownvis Variety Show Alacartoona and Boom Donkey Show XX Wearhaus Circus Event Sorry for Miscommunication Mini Cooper Barbarella Party Pique Arabian Nights Beautiful Bodies Nightworld ACLU Benefit Monta At Odds Crossroads Music Festival Busker Festival Fringe Festival Urban Bazaar Donkey Show XIX
Crosstown Station Skylight
Pythian Castle
Starlight Theater
Granada Theater
Arts Incubator
The Foundation
Crosstown Station
Fuel & Raouls
Lawrence Arts Center
Crosstown Station Skylight
Folly Theater
Conspiracy Room
Conspiracy Room
Bottoms Print Studio
Screenland Theater
Crosstown Station
Coca-Cola Building
Conspiracy Room
Casa Los Arcos
Crosstown Station
Starlight Theater
Crosstown Station
The Foundation
Arts Incubator
Mini Cooper Dealership
KC Live Stage (Power & Light)
The Foundation
The Foundation
Lawrence Arts Center
Lyric Theater
Crosstown Station Skylight
Crosstown Station
Czar Bar
Crosstown Station
Czar Bar
Leedy-Voulkos Art Gallery
Mini Cooper Dealership
Mosaic
The Emerald Room
The Foundation
Crosstown Station Skylight
Record Bar
Crosstown Station Skylight
Lawrence Arts Center
Crosstown Station Skylight
The Foundation
Crosstown Station
Kansas City, MO
Springfield, MO
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Lawrence, KS
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Overland Park, KS
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Sayulita, Mexico
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Shawnee, KS
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Lawrence, KS
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Shawnee, KS
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Lawrence, KS
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Emovere Literary Festival Sway Elemantra Benefit Show
Madrid Theater
The Plaza
Take 2
1820 Oak St. Event Space
Helix Architecture & Design
Kansas City, MO
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Kansas City, MO
Capoeira Beribazu-Afro-Brazilian Dance Performances Choreographer, Performer, Director, Co-Producer, and Booking
Capoeira Performance Capoeira Performance Plaza Art Fair Dance in the Park Sugar Refinement Sugar Refinement Sugar Refinement Capoeira Performance Capoeira Performance Sugar Refinement Sugar Refinement Urban Arts Roundup Sugar Refinement Latin American Festival
University of Wales
University of Bristol
The Plaza Main Stage
Roanoke Park Stage
Time’s Square
Pacific Place
Federal University of Espírito Santo
Mercado Central
Kansas City Jazz Museum
Tulsa Community College
University of Kansas
Just Off Broadway Theater
Just Off Broadway Theater
Municipal Park
Cardiff, U.K.
Bristol, U.K.
Kansas City, MO
Kansas City, MO
Hong Kong, China
Hong Kong, China
Vítoria, E.S., Brasil
Vítoria, E.S., Brasil
Kansas City, MO
Tulsa, OK
Lawrence, KS
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Kansas City, MO
Kansas City, MO
Performance Art, Creative Movement, Spoken Word & Theatre
Moon Bears & Sister Wives Kevin Hiatt Moon Bears & Sister Wives Urban Camping MarkeD - KC Fringe Urban Camping Vagina Monologues MisadventureMedley MarkeD - KC Fringe Vagina Monologues Got Breast? Film Got Breast? Play Bringing the Heat 10 x 10 Minutes Of… Gag Reflex Askew Airwaves Rock the Vote Celebrating Women Your Mother Should Know Grace Video Documentary Leaving the Line Up
La Esquina
Main Library
La Esquina
Fahrenheit Gallery
Just Off Broadway Theater
Copaken Stage
UMKC Pierson Auditorium
Can-Can Club & Cabaret
The Farm
UMKC Pierson Auditorium
UMKC Women’s Center
Strand Theater
University of Kansas
Just Off Broadway Theater
Just Off Broadway Theater
Just Off Broadway Theater
Locus Solis Gallery
Just Off Broadway Theater
Just Off Broadway Theater
Multiple Locations
Audible Surgery Studios
Kansas City, MO
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Seattle, WA
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Lawrence, KS
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Planning and Event Production
Producer and director for Voler – Thieves of Flight Performance for Fringe Festival (2008, 2010). Conceptual and creative design and performance direction. Website designer. Marketing Director. Original Aerial Carousel Designer. Grant/Proposal Writer.
Planning Committee for Quixotic Fusion’s 2007-2008 Season.
Producer, director and choreographer of a theatrical Capoeira performance, Sugar Refinement, presented to audiences in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Brazil, & China. (2002-2006)
Co-Director/Producer of Urban Transcendence: Bringing the Heat, a showcase of local poets. Responsible for art design, publicity, and performer direction. (2000-2002)
Co-Producer for Big Bang Buffet, a local multi-cultural performance art group working in partnership with Willow Productions and CrossCurrents Productions. (2000-2004)
Producer and director of Grace, a short film showcasing the talents of local artists. Responsible for scheduling, booking, coordinating location sites and film debut. (2000)
Resident Artist Employment
2006-Current MyARTS Kansas City, MO Lead Artist and Visual Arts Studio Mentor (In-Studio Program Manager)
Planning and facilitating projects within the Visual Arts studios, including layout, design, and final execution of commissioned and personal pieces. Teaching young artists and apprentices skills and tools needed to perfect their art throughout projects. Collaborating on creative projects with other studio mentors, incorporating multimedia approaches to projects and pieces. Aiding the curator of MyARTS art shows and fundraisers. Acting as a positive role model and resource for participants/ apprentices and other staff members. Supporting participants’ academic, cultural and art interests. Recruitment of new apprentices and responsible for new apprentice acclimation to the MyARTS program. Responsible for planning and coordinating community activities and visiting community artists.
1999-2006 Kansas City Mentoring Initiative, KCMI Kansas City, KS Non-Profit Project Director & Program Developer/Facilitator/Literacy Specialist
Project Developer and Lead Instructor for literacy through poetry programs in Wyandotte County Public Schools. Poet In Residence for Wyandotte County School District, 2000-2002. Co-developer of literacy/poetry program for Wyandotte County students. Facilitated in the creation of annual Metropolitan area poetry and art magazine, Urban Transcendence, including layout and design. Dedicated to inspiring young people to use their creative voice. Fine-tuned student’s writing capabilities and motivated students to become effective and strong performance poets. Co-Director of Urban Transcendence Poetry Performance, Bringing the Heat, 2005.
Project Developer/ Lead Instructor for Video Technology Programming. Responsible for implementing programming in Wyandotte County schools teaching young people fundamentals in development, acting techniques and editing short films and commercials 2003-2005. Instructor for media class held at Kansas City, Kansas Community College providing instruction and planning for student based cable television show, Reality Check, 2004-2006. Film director and editor of Urban Transcendence Poetry Performances, 2003-2005.
Facilitator of Visual Art Projects for Kansas University Medical Center, Health Careers Pathways Programs, providing summer internships to high-school students who wish to concentrate on careers in the sciences.
Contracted Artist Programs
2003-current Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey Kansas City, MO Creative Communications, Poetry Instructor/Art Instructor
Poetry and Art instructor for annual Alvin Ailey youth camp in Kansas. Curriculum development and facilitation of poetry and art workshops for middle school students and poetry performance coach for closing presentation. Poetry Workshops (2003-2009). Art Workshops (2003-current).
2002-2006 Capoeira Beribazu Outreach Program Kansas City, MO Assistant Instructor/ Program Coordinator
Assistant instructor and professional performer of the Afro-Brazilian cultural art of Capoeira in metropolitan area public schools, community centers, community colleges, youth group homes and detention centers. Responsible for all project coordination such as program contract negotiation, scheduling, presentations, grant writing, collaborative efforts with local non-profit groups and all administrative tasks including: marketing, advertising, art design and website design for the group. Coordinator for the Outreach program which helps to provide Capoeira internship programs for at-risk youth and connects local artists with domestic and international satellite groups. International performances and workshops to Brazil, Canada, Jamaica, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.
2000-2006 Storytellers Inc. Kansas City, MO Contracted Artist/ Facilitator
Facilitator of visual arts programs in metropolitan area detention centers and alternative schools. Member of the Art Model team funded by the National Education Association for the development of creative arts implementation for public education, 2004-2006.
Education
Artist INC,
Entrepreneurial Artist Training
Kansas City, MO
Aerial Fabric Acrobatics
Aerial Acrobatics Training
Denver, CO
Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City
BA English – Creative Writing
Kansas City, MO
Federal Univ. of Espírito Santo
Program: Capoeira Training
Vítoria, ES, Brasil
AmeriCorps VISTA
Literacy Specialist Training
VA, OK, KS
Touch Dance
Latin & Ballroom Training
Kansas City, MO
Tulane University
Dbl Mjr Liberal Arts & Dance
New Orleans, LA
Jade Osborne is available for performances, artist workshops, lectures and special programs. If you are interested in working with Jade for an event, please contact her at jademuse@gmail.com.
For more information on her Aerial Acrobatics Group, Voler - Thieves of Flight, please visit the website at www.thievesofflight.com.
