Oct. 7, 2009 – Preeminent indigenous Northern Plains flute player, storyteller, hood dancer and cultural ambassador Kevin Locke brings his Native Dance Ensemble to the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd. in Glen Ellyn, for a 7 p.m. Mainstage performance Sunday, Nov. 8.
“The Drum is the Thunder, The Flute is the Wind” features an array of dancers and musicians performing dramatic reconstructions of traditional Indian dances and music from the Lakota, Ojibwe, Oneida and Comanche nations.
This unique award-winning group melds the history of the tribes with a spiritual message about the earth, with each instrument representing different aspects of nature.
This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Illinois Arts Council, General Mills Foundation and Land O’Lakes Foundation.
Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces: Dance initiative, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts.
A free MAC Chat on American Indian culture will precede the Nov. 8 performance.
Tickets to Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble are $38 for adults, $36 for seniors and $28 for College of DuPage students and youth.