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Queen Nefertiti stalks through the town | |
The head of Queen Nefertiti rose to regard the audience from a regal height in the center aisle, while her outstretched arms spanned the entire auditorium. The shadow of her ghastly arms fell briefly over each person, who felt a chill as the giant presence loomed above. All fell silent, and with a faint rustling of shrouded garments and clicking of bones, the shadow passed. |
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In the Rainforest | |
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The audience and performers moved as one, suspended in silence. Four dancers slowly bore the dead body of a small animal, the last of its species, in a funeral procession out from the stage, down the main aisle. |
A row of standing trees in costumes and masks, dancing to a calypso-inspired celebration, had just been felled by the interruption of a chainsaw. The story, told through music and dance with costumes and masks, is of Beauty, Destruction, Loss, Rage, Reconciliation, and Renewal. |
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OPAL'S BOOK: A child's diary | |
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The lonely six-year-old Opal Whiteley made friends with the plants and animals who
lived in nearby forests and meadows of turn-of-the-century Oregon. She christened
all her friends with grand literary names taken from the only two books in her
parents' home. She wrote a diary chronicling the daily adventures of Lars Porsena,
the crow; Thomas Chatterton Jupiter Zeus, the woodrat; Brave Horatius, the dog; and
Michael Raphael, her great and comforting tree. The diary was published in
1920 to much acclaim, at the height of her adult career as a naturalist lecturer. The
incredible childlike but clear language melts hearts. |
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Butterflies dance as the miracle of birth unfolds | |
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An original work for piano quintet was inspired by the birth of composer Hugh Chandler's daughter. Two butterflies with ten-foot wingspans emerge from the chrysalis, sun themselves, flirt and court in a mating ritual, migrate, come to rest, and begin anew. |
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Galisteo Campfire | |
Rocks in the desert inscribed with ancient images speak, a lizard dreams us into being, a medicine man heals, and a cactus sings a sun song. You will be shown what you can see. |
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