LINKS
Amboseli Trust for Elephants - http://www.elephanttrust.org/
Elephant Voices - http://www.elephantvoices.org/
The Elephant Sanctuary: Hohenwald Tennessee - http://www.elephants.com/
The Elephant Listening Project -
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/elephant/
David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust:
A Haven For Elephants & Rhinos -
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/
ELEPHANT: September 23-27, 2010
The Stock Pavilion
Urbana, Illinois
The second performance in
Deke Weaver's Unreliable Bestiary Project
From burial rituals to subtle interpersonal communications to post-traumatic stress, elephant and human societies have remarkable similarities.
Staged in a livestock pavilion - the sort of place where the 4-H Club would judge the prize hogs in a state fair … it’s gorgeous (check out the images to the left) - ELEPHANT will feature video projected on two 90-foot long screens, a marching band’s drum corps and an enormous elephant puppet. This Creative Capital supported performance, part of the Center for Advanced Study’s 2010-11 series, is going to be weird, haunting and one-of-a-kind.
There are some fantastically talented people building the show – choreographer and codirector Jennifer Allen, composer-musician Chris Peck, lighting designer Valerie Oliveiro, environmental designer Andy Warfel, written, video, and directed by me, Deke Weaver. Featured performers will include Gary Ambler, Cynthia Oliver, Stephen May, Kyli Kleven and Jessica Cornish.
It’ll be worth the trip. Come see this show.
Special fabulous secret prize:
Poster Download.
A new one every week.
(Stock Pavilion photos by Valerie Oliveiro)