- Join us on Saturday 23rd March, 5pm – 6pm March at Tap Seac Square 塔石廣場 for Street Art Festival as part of outreach performances of Macao International Parade!
- On Sunday 24th March at 3pm Giant Wheel will join the parade opening ceremony will be held at the Ruins of St. Paul’s. From there, participating groups will proceed along Rua de S. Paulo, Rua da Palha, Rua de S. Domingos St. Dominic’s Square, Senado Square, Travessa do Roquete, Rua da Sé, Calçada de S. João, Avenida da Praia Grande, Jorge Álvares Square, Avenida Panorâmica do Lago Nam Van, and Avenida Doutor Stanley Ho, culminating in a closing performance at the Sai Van Lake Square which will end at 7 p.m.
- Parade – The Giant Wheel is a moving street performance featuring a 12-foot tall Giant Wheel powered by 6 circus artists travelling high above the streets and inspired by the fracture between our individual identities and the cycles of our shared common humanity.
- The Macao International Parade promotes cultural and artistic interaction and exchange, adding joy to Macao’s return to the motherland!
Parade – The Giant Wheel is a moving performance inspired by the beauty, power, and impact of people from different walks of life coming together, featuring a 12-foot tall Giant Wheel powered by 6 street artists accompanied by music and children, young people, and families from Green Man Festival.
Autin Dance Theatre uses their unique blend of contemporary storytelling, striking physicality and innovative large designs to transport audiences and communities along a carefully choreographed procession.
The 50-minute itinerant act is punctuated by 3 static moments that celebrate the tension and fracture between our individual identities and our shared collective humanity. Ultimately, Parade is about celebrating different journeys whilst honouring our shared life struggles.
Production Credits
Director/Choreographer: Johnny Autin
Learning & Participation Manager: Kirsten Tranter
Associate Producer: Annalise Cowan
Creative Producer: Adam Towndrow
Production Assistant: Micha Greenwood
Rehearsal Director: Sarah Butler
Bespoke Set Design & Construction: Big House Events
Dramaturg: Neus Gil Cortes
Music Composer: Richard Shrewsbury – Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Performers: Charlie Hogan, Eleanor Stephenson, George Perez, India-Rose Cox, Johnny Autin, and William Hodson
Technical Production Assistant: Jamie Higgins
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About Autin Dance Theatre
Autin Dance Theatre is an innovative touring dance company, established in 2013 under the helm of acclaimed French choreographer & Birmingham-based Artistic Director Johnny Autin. Our mission is to inspire, educate and instigate positive social changes by delivering relevant, highly responsive, multi-disciplinary arts activities to communities, in theatres, outdoors and in non-traditional spaces. Autin Dance Theatre provides extensive learning & engagement programmes with a wide range of participants across several local communities. Autin Dance Theatre draws on contemporary social issues (environment, community, relationships, identities) to make engaging, highly accessible and relevant performance work. Autin Dance Theatre uses our unique blend of contemporary storytelling, striking physicality, and innovative large designs to transport audiences and communities along carefully choreographed moving outdoor processions and static performances. The company is a collaborative ensemble of creatives who devise and produce socially engaged and mass participatory movement performance projects across the UK & internationally. We have built a strong reputation with high levels of engagement for our work with critically acclaimed productions including A Posi+ive Life, Dystopia, Square One, Street Games & Out of the Deep Blue. In 2023, we have premiered our brand-new spectacle Parade – The Giant Wheel.
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About Macao International Parade
The ‘2024 Macao International Parade’, organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, and co-sponsored by Galaxy Entertainment Group, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, MGM Macau, Sands China Ltd., SJM Resorts, S.A. e Wynn Resorts Limited, will be held on 24 March (Sunday) in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Macao’s return to the motherland.
For more information about the activities, please visit http://www.icm.gov.mo/macaoparade or the Macao activities website ‘Enjoy Macao’ or follow IC’s official WeChat account ‘IC_Art_Macao’ and the ‘Macao International Parade’ page on Facebook.
