TALL GIRL AND THE
LIGHTNING PARADE

Tall Girl and the Lightning Parade is an immersive, celebratory outdoor parade performance in English and Spanish with live music, dance, masks, and stilt-walkers. The performance is adapted from a Tz’utujil Mayan story told by Martín Prechtel in his book The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: the story tells about Tall Girl’s escape from her domineering sky parents and her magical courtship with the iridescent Hummingbird Boy.

Tall Girl and the Lightning Parade was presented in 2016 by Chicago’s Night Out in the Parks and by the University of Chicago’s Performance Lab with free performances at Washington Park, Walsh Playground Park, and La Villita Park, with a special appearance at the Villapalooza Street Festival.

Directed by Gabriel Thom Pasculli with choreography by Kristina Isabelle, costume design by Julie Young with additional costume design by Stephanie Pasculli. Scenic elements by Osvaldo Carmona and Cooper Forsman and original music by Cooper Forsman, Sam Allyn and Stephanie Pasculli. Adapted from the Tz'utujil Mayan story shared by Martín Prechtel in his book The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun. Performance text adapted in English by Isaac Fosl-van Wyke and in Spanish by Enid Muñoz.

Featuring Lucia Meier, Micah Figueroa, Alex Rodriguez, Meghan Lewis, David Dowd, Stephanie Vondell, and Isaac Fosl-van Wyke. Featuring stilt performers Nigel Brown, Dana Murphy, Kevin Jandrists, Arthur Lockhart, Ellen DeSitter, Aerica Siegal, Anjelica Masson, Angela Luem, and Kellyn Jackson. Additionally featuring Kelly Nesheim, Cooper Forsman, Sam Allyn, McCambridge Dowd-Whipple, Claire Bauman, Jordan Arredando, Emily Robinson, and Noah Appelbaum. Production team includes stage manager Dina Klahn, production manager Erica Kast, and assistant director Nicole Middleton.