Parades & Processions
Great Small Works is deeply involved in the re-definition of processional performance as community street theater of the 21st century. They are fascinated by the countless variations of performance in motion through (public) space. GSW collaborates with artists, community members and activists worldwide to cultivate and defend this important aspect of culture.
The company staged annual street pageants for the D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival from 2001-2014, beginning with the Procession to End All Evil (2001), The Law of the Downfall of Empires (2002), The Pom-Pom Tattoo, A Procession of Alternative Spellings, Signals, and Continuous Pleating (2003), Do You Know the Way to San Blasé? (2004) An Answer on the Day You Call (2005), and The Spectacle of the Rising Tide (2006) and beyond with The Greatest Smallest Parade (2010), Love Letter to the People of Iran (2010), Truth In Gay Clothes (2011). The Sukkos Mob (2007-2015), The Hemispheric Casserole (2013), and the HONK Festivals of Radical Brass Bands (ongoing). More Photos