Arts briefs: Dance, music and family fun
Dance
DANCE IN THE DESERT
FESTIVAL RETURNS
Saturday marks National Dance Day – but the last weekend of July has been an occasion to celebrate dance at the College of Southern Nevada for more than a decade.
This weekend’s 14th annual Dance in the Desert Festival – with one performance tonight and two on Saturday – brings together dancers and dance companies from California, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Mexico and Nevada.
From Atlanta’s Staibdance to Canyon Movement Company from Flagstaff, Ariz., the visiting troupes will join local ensembles.
“I think the audience will again be intrigued with the range of offerings this year,” festival director Kelly Roth notes, pointing out that “the three separate programs will, for the most part, offer different repertoire.”
In addition to the three performances, master classes will be presented both days of the festival at CSN’s Nicholas J. Horn Theatre, 3200 E. Cheyenne Ave., North Las Vegas.
Performances are at 7 tonight and 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday; master classes are from 10:30 a.m. to noon today and Saturday.
Tickets to the performances are $8 for students and seniors, $10 general admission; master classes are $10. For tickets and additional information, call 651-5483.
Music/art
MUSEUM CELEBRATES
NATIVE AMERICAN ART
Native American flute maker and performer Tim Blueflint continues a three-day visit to the Lost City Museum in Overton today and Saturday in conjunction with the museum’s new exhibit, “What Continues the Dream: Contemporary Arts and Culture from the Powwow Tradition.”
Blueflint will perform at 2 p.m. today; from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, he’ll offer a hands-on workshop for 15 (ages 12 and older) to learn the basics of Native American flute playing. (The workshop is $15 for museum members and $20 for nonmembers; call 702-397-2193 to register; the fee includes a practice flute.)
Blueflint, who is of Bad River Chippewa and Comanche heritage, has performed at many powwows across the West .
The new exhibit, “What Continues the Dream,” displays traditional arts and crafts that capture the vibrant spirit of contemporary Nevada powwow .
The Nevada Arts Council’s Folklife Program worked with the Las Vegas Indian Center, the Nevada Indian Commission, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, the Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe and the Reno-Sparks Indian colony to develop “What Continues the Dream,” which will be at the museum through Aug. 26 as part of a two-year tour throughout the state.
The museum is at 721 S. Moapa Valley Blvd. (take exit 93 from Interstate 15). It is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday; admission is $5 (children and members enter free). For more information, contact the museum at 702-397-2193 or email lostcity@nevadaculture.org.
Family fun
CARDBOARD Boats SET SAIL AT DESERT BREEZE
We all know you can do anything with duct tape.
And from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Desert Breeze Pool, families and other small groups will try to make and race boats constructed of cardboard – and duct tape – at the annual Cardboard Boat Regatta.
Rules call for boats constructed of cardboard, duct tape and the participants’ collective imagination. Certificates will be awarded for the Most Creative, The Bismarck and Fastest Ship.
Boat registration begins at 5 p.m. with races starting at 7 p.m. Admission to the regatta is $3 for adults, $2 for children ages 3 to 17 and $1 for seniors 55 and older. (Children 2 and younger are free.)
Even for nonracers, there’s plenty of fun in store, with swimming from 5 to 7 p.m., along with water games and music from DJ-Pak . Picnic dinners and snacks are welcome; alcohol and glass bottles are not permitted.
Desert Breeze Pool is at 8275 Spring Mountain Road, near Durango Drive. For more information, call Desert Breeze Pool at 455-7798 or visit the website at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov/parks.
Art
HENDERSON LAUNCHES
CHILDREN’S ART EXHIBIT
Most children’s art is on permanent display on the family refrigerator.
But the city of Henderson expands its collection of art galleries to include a new children’s art exhibit: the Gallery at the Garden, inside the Hilton Garden Inn, 1340 W. Warm Springs Road.
The new gallery’s inaugural show, scheduled to run through Oct. 27, features 15 artworks created by students from Sue Morrow Elementary School.
Gallery at the Gardens is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily; there is no admission charge. For more information on Henderson galleries, call Henderson’s Cultural Arts & Tourism Department at 267-2171 or go online to HendersonLive.com.
Contact reporter Carol Cling at ccling@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0272.
