Parade the Circle
For the past 6 or 7 years, I have had the incredible opportunity to participate in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Parade the Circle. This colorful celebration of the arts is a spectacular event, with stilt dancers, people powered floats, giant puppets, steel drum bands and more.
I have had the honor of sharing this process with my 15 and a half year old daughter, who is an amazing and talented young woman, artist and stilt dancer. She has developed the concepts for our ensembles and has designed. batiked and sewn our costumes. She has refined her stilt dancing and performing skills, and is now teaching others as an intern during the Museum’s workshops
My daughter once wrote that she started out wanting to learn how to walk on stilts, and that she did learn that skill. She also discovered that she has the power to accomplish her goals and to help others to try new things. Meeting artists and musicians from all over the world and working with a diverse group of community members, she has learned that the arts transcend differences. These are life skills; the ones that are ours forever. The ones that we bring with us wherever we go.
This year’s Parade will be Saturday, June 9, from 11am-7pm, in Cleveland’s University Circle. I hope you’ll come. I guarantee you won’t regret it.
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kelly said,
June 1, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
Oh, I hope we can make it this year, finally! I’m putting it on the calendar.
debra said,
June 2, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
I hope you can come this year. It will be wonderful! I am working on a Medusa ensemble for a group that is focussing on Greek mythology.