Page 28 - the NOISE MAY 2016 Edition

28 • MAY 2016 • the NOISE arts & news • thenoise.us
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a BEaUtIFUl lEGaCy
In the fall of 2010 I made my way south to Cornville to visit Eliphante on assignment for The Noise. At the time I knew little about the place, and years later it is something I won’t ever forget.
After crossing Oak Creek in a canoe used to ferry visitors across the water, I stepped onto the green turf-covered ground. eliphante is spread over 3.26 acres and was built over 30 years by artist Michael Kahn.
Over the course of half a day I was guided through the buildings Mr. Kahn had created using found, recycled and gifted materials. some entrances led underground to cave-like spaces constructed in such a way it almost looked as if I was in the belly of some great beast, its bones holding the roof above, and stained glass windows stretched over it like skin.
The colors illuminated by the sunlight coming in made my procession through the village slow, I felt greedy to take in every color and detail. There were treasures left behind everywhere — a mandolin with cracked finish chipping from exposure to the elements, pianos embedded into the walls — and so much colored glass it felt like being inside a kaleidoscope.
I could continue to describe the wonder I felt on the afternoon I spent at eliphante, but to holistically experience the legacy Michael Kahn left behind, I would encourage art lovers to visit.
On May 6 the Sedona Arts Center is offering an afternoon guided tour of eliphante. Meeting at the sedona Arts Center at 12PM, the tour begins with a screening of a film about Mr. Kahn and eliphante. A bus will take participants to Cornville and return in time for the Art walk reception in the evening. Tickets are $45 by bus and $30 for those who drive themselves, and the ticket price includes a lifetime membership to the eliphante Organization. 928/282-3809, SedonaArtsCenter.org
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Canyon Movement Company presents their Spring Dance Festival at 7:30PM on May 13-14 at the Clifford e. white Theater at northern Arizona University. This Gala event will have performances and presentations by Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy, Canyon Movement Company, Velocity Dance Company, Human nature Dance Theatre, CMC’s Dance for Parkinson’s program, and film-maker Amanda Kapp. Canyonmovementcompany. org This April NAU Theater presents a play adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. This Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a falsely accused man and the family who aids him, will play at the Clifford E. White Theater through May1. 928/523-5661, nau.edu/cal
Leading Ladies by Ken Ludwig
opens at Theatrikos May 27 —
a comedy about two english
shakespearean actors in Amish
country performing Scenes From
Shakespeare. They arrive in new
york in order to attempt to con
an old woman who is leaving
her fortune to her long-lost
nephews, however, Jack and Leo
have a surprise awaiting them —
she is looking for her long lost nieces. Directed by Becky Daggett, the production will run through June 12 at the Doris Harper-white Community Playhouse, 11 w. Cherry Ave. Theatrikos.com
The Prescott Center for the Arts presents Boeing, Boeing by Mark Camoletti and directed by Bruce Lanning. set in Paris in the 1960s, the play follows a man engaged to three flight attendants spread out across the different cities he has frequent layovers in. The high-speed farce takes place in his seven-doored apartment when a friend comes to visit and everything starts to go wrong. This play opens May 5 and runs through May 15.
On saturday May 14 Anger Management Stand Up Comedy returns to the Orpheum Theater with two shows at 7PM & 9PM.
The Flagstaff Foundry was a hoot this April, with stand up, aerial, live music, improv comedy and a performance by samba Tuque — who knows what May’s show will bring? each month is different, once there was even a pancake-eating contest. you can count on a reading of The Flagstone Four, a radio serial by Garrison Garcia, following Flagstone’s local super heroes as they fight the good fight, and a performance by the Circus Arts studio’s improv team Tiny Punches.
The Flagstaff Foundry invites sign-ups for performances by folks 18 and older who want to share their random
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