A Parade of strange non human entities: Monsters

An unnaturally large Egret gazes out across the grey evening sky. Her feathers pale blue, yellow and white, a skirt of lacy doilies.

As the sun sets, a small red woman rides a bike accomanied by a 9 foot Monster with a strange pink head

Dancing Monsters Community Parade

Community Events • Dance

South Australia • SA Premiere

One of InDaily's 2022 festival Top Picks, we're back for a 4th year!

The Annual Dancing Monsters Community parade is open for all to join and express connection with the Port Adelaide Yerta Bulti River and her inhabitants.

As a Monster, you can mask the human face, and adorn yourself for the parade. There are no rules for this (apart from don't just buy a mask from Cheap as Chips).

Musicians and spectators are also welcome.

We are living through great changes, and sometimes you just have to bundle the terror and wonder of it all into festive madness!

This time, we'll include a homage to the Moon Jellyfish, as they begin their spawning in the River this time of year.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” (Antonio Gramsci)

Presented by: Dancing Monsters

Dancing Monsters work with themes of connection/protection (and implicity potential loss of connection/habitat) with an emphasis on the joyful, the strange and the festive.
Culturally, Monsters can function as home/place/community protection symbols (halloween/gargoyles are Celtic/European examples of this), as well as the means by which humans can extend into non-human forms, playfully subverting anthropocentric ways of being to imagine, and identify with places and their other inhabitants.
Dancing Monsters is a community oriented practice, and open to everyone.