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Terpsichore for Kansas City: Sound and Light Installation in a Garage

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts parking garage on 17th Street.
photo: Laura Spencer/KCUR
The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts parking garage on 17th Street.

Parking garages in Kansas City are infused with art - from the light and sound work called Pulse, next to City Hall; to the dancing lights in the underground garage at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art from a reflecting pool overhead. In the new parking garage at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, there's a public art installation activated by movement.

By Laura Spencer

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Kansas City, Mo – Original music pipes out of more than a hundred speakers, and four stories of lights radiate patterns of blue and white. For a series called "Artists in their Own Words," KCUR's Laura Spencer met up with composer David Moulton and artist Lajos Hoder during the installation.

Terpsichore for Kansas City
created by the artist team of
Mags Harries and Lajos Hoder
with the music of composers David Moulton, Roberta Vacca, and Bobby Watson
officially opens
Friday, December 2, 2011
5 - 8 pm
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

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Laura Spencer is staff writer/editor at the Kansas City Public Library and a former arts reporter at KCUR.
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