Flashback Friday: Art on theMART

Limelight Parade was commissioned for Art on theMART—the largest permanent digital art projection in the world—in alignment with Chicago’s Year of Chicago Theatre in 2019. Created in collaboration with theatermaker John Musial, Limelight Parade brings a surprising intimacy and humanity to the grand stage of theMART’s 2.5 acre river-façade and features Lucky Plush’s signature blend of dance, physical theater, humor, and storytelling. The project was enjoyed by an average of 30,000 people each day, and ran from June through September of 2019.

Limelight Parade, utilizes fragmented choreography and script from Rhoads's work with Lucky Plush, reimagined within John Musial's layered and evocative projection design. The source material draws from Lucky Plush's Rooming House, in which varied interpretations of personal and mythic storytelling leads down a rabbit hole into the lives of everyday people who do extraordinary things.

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