Special thanks to Theresa Weinfurtner, 2009 ARTmoves Parade Coordinator.
2009 ARTmoves Parade Participants
1. St. Paul Bike Patrol
2. Women’s Drum Center – Drum Heart Drum Line
3. St. Paul Police Band – marching band
4. St. Paul ECFE – approx. 30 families walking with the windsocks they created
5. Music Together – approx. 20 decorated strollers and Music Together banner
6. Chicks on Sticks – Twin Cities all female stilt-walking troupe
7. Los Alegres Bailadores – Mexican traditional dance and music
8. Rince na Chroi Irish Dancers – traditional Irish dance presented by this St. Paul based Irish dance school
9. Sumunar Youth Gamelan Ensemble - Students ages 6-15 perform Javanese gamelan music as part of Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota (IPAAM)
10. Chinese American Association of Minnesota/CAAM - CAAM Chinese Dance Theater has served families and delighted audiences with some of the best locally-produced Chinese dance in the country
11. Kalpulli Yaocenoxtli - a collective of families committed to teaching the traditions, history, and art of dance of the Mexihca (Aztec) culture.
12. Sidi Goma - presents the joyful and exuberant devotional music and dance of the traditional rituals of the Sidi African-Indians from Gujarat, India.
13. West 7th Community Center - Artist and Puppeteer Soozin Hirschmugl worked with the awesome kids from the West 7th Community Center. They created 2 Giant Insect Puppets, a lady bug and spider costumes and flying insect flags flags. The 5th- 8th grade students created a giant 4 pole Dragonfly Puppet and flying insect flags. The 3-4th grade students created a giant 3 pole Butterfly Puppet and flying insect flags, and the K-2nd grades created ladybug and spider costumes. In total 60 youth from the center participated in this residency, 20 from each age group.
14. Merrick Community Center - Gustavo Boada crafted masks and stilts with participants from the after school project.
15. CHAT/Center for Hmong Arts and Talent - Song Thao worked with a dozen students to produce a piece of abstract art. Each student created a self-portrait story cloth which become part of a abstract frame house.
16. Hancock Recreation Center - Mark Stafford and his students created colorful dragons. The older students will move the dragon down the street while performing on stilts while the younger students perform a Taiwanese dragon dance with the smaller dragon.
17. Duluth and Case Recreation Center - Julian McFaul and his residency students used stilts, unusual costumery and mask performance techniques to devise, create and inhabit several never-seen-before creatures. Some of the beasts involve multiple performers.
18. Folwell Middle School - Estela De Paola worked with special needs students at Folwell Middle School of Minneapolis Public Schools, to create paper mache masks featuring african designs.
19. North Dale Recreation Center - Bart Buch worked with the kids at North Dale Recreation Center in St. Paul to make a parade section about gardening. Together, they made a garden dragon, a big sun puppet, and garden creature masks.
20. Scheffer Recreation Center - Resident artist, Mary Plaster, worked with a dozen kids to create whimsically-winged creatures.
21. Hallie Q. Brown/MLK Center – Allison Heimstead
22. Battle Creek Recreation Center – Chris Lutter and his students designed and created a mermaid, two dogs, a dragon, Sponge Bob, a frog, a horse and a giant butterfly. These masks and puppets will entertain parade viewer in some wholly unexpected way.
23. Lelavision – artists representing their production “The Anther, My Friend”
24. Esta – Israeli band represented by master reed musician, Amir Gwirtzman, playing bagpipes