Posted on | October 27, 2012 |
Nieko Pham is a soloist in Danzanna Dance Production?s ?Thriller? number at Ghost Walk Riverside.
The organizers of the 21st annual Ghost Walk Riverside got unsettled in broad daylight before the event started.
The threat was natural rather than supernatural: the weather.
Susan Anderson, of California Riverside Ballet, said that Friday?s 6-mph winds were blowing down their signs and undoing preparations.
But by the time night fell, the air was calm and the audience was getting excited.
Ghost Walk features more than 24 stories and six walking tours, plus continuous entertainment on the Main Street Pedestrian Mall.
A troupe of 25 youthful entertainers from Danzanna Dance Productions performs a ?Thriller?-inspired dance 14 times a night in front of the Culver Center of the Arts.
Director Angie Quiroz said at 10 p.m. Friday, after three hours of dancing, that she kept up their energy level with take-out pizza, fresh fruit and plenty of water.
The Culver Center is the starting point for the tours. Four are designated ?all audiences? and two have progressive story lines.
Ghost Walk is put on by California Riverside Ballet with a host of volunteers, including drama programs from several high schools, including Poly, King, Ramona and Corona.
Several of the scripts are from writers with the Inlandia Institute, a literary advocacy group based in Riverside.
Actors are stationed at such sites as the newly reopened Riverside Municipal Auditorium, Riverside Art Museum, the Fox Performing Arts Center and the base of the statue of agricultural pioneer Eliza Tibbets.
That story, ?You Reap What You Sow,? is a parable about Tibbets? work put on by Poly High students. First-time director Haley Yarbrough had been a tour guide at earlier Ghost Walks. She said the cast worked on their presentation in a month of rehearsals.
Some stories are as simple as a lone actor reciting from a booth. Others had large casts.
The Fox is putting on a multimedia show for its story, ?Final Bow.? Lighting designer Andy Gay transformed the bar into a performance space with stage lighting hung from the rafters three days in advance and a temporary stage on one side of the room.
Anderson didn?t have attendance numbers but said that 1,500 tickets had been sold for both nights before the event started Friday evening.
Ghost Walk wraps up tonight, starting at 5 p.m. with entertainment on the mall.
You can get a program at the ticket tables that provides details for each tour.
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