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Aerial Dance Festival Aerial dance, circus arts found ‘Above Borders’
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roject In Motion’s fifth annual “Above Borders” aerial dance festival takes place Nov. 11-13 with a preshop starting Nov. 9. Project In Motion has been granted an NEA “Challenge America” grant to bring multidisciplinary artists including: Bill Evans, acclaimed modern and tap dancer; Sam Tribble, circus artist (roue cyr, travelling rings, acro-balance); and Brandy Leary, Canadian circus artist (aerial dance) and classical Indian dancer. This festival has run for the past four years in Las Cruces with the aim of offering a New Mexico audience the opportunity to experience world class dance and circus arts. The week of the festival entails rehearsals for three new pieces created by the visiting artists for all those registered for the preshop. Participants may register for this preshop along with the workshop. Registration, teacher collaborations and introductions for workshop participants is on Friday, Nov. 11. The concert, including perFile
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Canadian circus artist Brandy Leary demonstrates her work on silks. (Courtesy Photo) formances by guest artists and local professionals, is at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11. Student’s Showcase and newly created works are at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 12. Prices are $10 for shows and $50 for the workshop. Preshop is $100, including Wednesday to Sunday activities, and starts Wednesday, Nov. 9 in the morning. Visit www.projectinmotion. com to register and for tickets to the concerts.
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Atriplex canescens foliage and Rumex hymenosepalus stems can create vibrant colors for fabric arts materials. (Photos courtesy of the Dale A. Zimmerman Herbarium)
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Creative Coloring
Plant dyes from area are tradiitonal
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t its meeting on Nov. 18, the Gila Native Plant Society will feature a program, “Creative Coloring: Dye Plants That Grow in the Greater Gila Region,” presented by Ann Hedlund, cultural anthropologist, and Hosana Eilert, weaver, that should be of special interest to both lovers of botany and those who engage in or appreciate the fabric arts. The roots, bark, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of many plants can produce long-lasting and vibrant colors when properly applied to sheep’s wool fibers and vegetal basketry materials. From the 1,100 regional plants listed in Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness (www. gilaflora.com), more than several dozen provide potential dyestuffs. A number of these dye plants are well documented; some were once used in the American Southwest by pre-Columbian as well as Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache peoples. Others are known anecdotally and still others have
yet to be proved. In their illustrated presentation, Hedlund and Eilert will discuss Gila regional plants that could be developed for natural dyeing. From ethnographic evidence and from their own and others’ experimentation, they will describe processing of plant parts, application of mordants and dyes, and resulting colors that might be expected. Ann Lane Hedlund advanced to Silver City after retiring from the University of Arizona a few years ago; she is still affiliated with the Arizona State Museum in Tucson. Ann is a cultural anthropologist who works with living (and some past) artists, especially Navajo and Pueblo weavers. The author of many books and articles, she consults widely with museums on their textile collections. She is also an avid native plant gardener and hiker. Hosana Eilert owns and operates the Wild West Weaving Gallery in downtown Silver City, where she showcases her own woven art, features
exhibits of other fiber artists’ work, and restores and mounts textiles for collectors. Hosana teaches classes in dyeing, spinning and weaving in the traditional Rio Grande style. She grew up in the Espanola area, where she apprenticed with Lisa and Irvin Trujillo of Chimayo. Meetings of the Gila Native Plant Society are held the third Friday of the month at 7 p.m. in Harlan Hall, second floor, on the Western New Mexico University campus. They are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served following the program. The Gila Native Plant Society is committed to promoting education, research and appreciation of the native flora of the Southwest, encouraging the preservation of rare and endangered plant species and supporting the use of suitable native plants in landscaping. For information on programs, publications and membership, visit www.gilanps.org.
Rumex hymenosepalus