May 1, 2008
Harbor Steps in Downtown Seattle
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Get swept off your feet with Ooo La La, a free
interactive public performance spectacular!

Created by Lucia Neare & coinciding with First Thursday ArtWalk, Ooo La La creates a grand corridor of whimsy throughtout downtown. Follow the parade from Occidental Square, or board the Queen May at 6 pm on the Harbor Steps as she sets sail to Whimsy... read more>>

A WISH FOR OUR COMMUNITY!
It is my hope that by transporting audiences into lovely dream-like worlds, and immersing them in waves of whimsy and sumptuous aestheticism our community will grow in imagination and spirit.

In general, my work is designed to inspire wonder and whimsy in audiences. This site-based, participatory outdoor theater often includes larger than life masked characters, mobile set pieces, and casts of more than 50 performers, including some of the finest dancers, actors, and musicians in the Seattle area. Pieces are tailored to the needs of the site in which they occur, are friendly in nature, and free to the public. For lack of a better word, I've dubbed them "wonders."

The performance we are creating for the Harbor Steps is unabashedly celebratory. Audience members are drawn into a world of elegance and whimsy and are gently invited to let go of the mundane and to pass through the veil of the imagination into the sublime world of the dream.
Audience members can enter the world at any point during the evening and have a full, sweeping experience of surprise and delight.