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I Photographed The Halloween Parade In Galway, Ireland
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I Photographed The Halloween Parade In Galway, Ireland

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Macnas is a spectacle and street performance company based in Galway, West of Ireland. They are famous for creating mind-blowing, interactive and unforgettable shows and parades that are something out of this planet. They travel all over the world and bring the joy and magic on a large scale with over 100 performers on each parade. They even performed for Barrack Obama once!

This year, the company celebrated their 30th birthday and crated something exceptionally bold and inspiring for their hometown: Galway. This Halloween spectacle called “The Savage Grace” brought over 50.000 people to the streets, including the president of Ireland, Michael D Higgins. Take a look at this beautiful vision turned into reality by Macnas Art Director – Noelline Kavanagh.

Galway was named The European Capital of Culture 2020 and we can see the reason why. This small city on the West of Ireland is always full of wonders.

All images were created by Galway-based photographer, Julia Dunin.

 

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    Baba Jaga, over 3m puppet was one of the key characters on the parade

    You can find all kinds of wonders there: smoke & lights and amazing singers dressed as moon godnesses

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    Huge owl gracefully gliding over the crowd

    Each of the main characters has a gtroop of beautiful side characters, dressed in most amazing costumes

    You will find large scale platform with amazing mushroom instalation and “My Fellow Sponges” band playing some cool moon tunes

    Galway Youth Ballet performers dressed as woolfs with illumination eyes engage with kids

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    The woolfs pack hunts the streets

    Every single character in the parade has his own story and personality that was crafted by costume maker, make-up artist and choreographer

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    Huge puppet Baba Yaga which is a little bit scary, but turns out to be friendly

    Little Baba Yagas enlightening the streets with their laterns

    The army of bogyemans and gracefull creatures from fairland

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    Stilt walkers performing they graceful dance

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    ..while The Moon Queen sings “Keep the Streets Empty for Me”

    Dr Plague character walking on stilts and announces the parade coming with his wooden stick

    Wolf pack characters…

    … performers engaging with public

    Some characters are straight from Lala Land

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    Wolf pack headpiece with eyes illuminating in yellow

    Main wolf character, over 3 long and operated by 2 people

    Spooky house with storyteller that could as well be straight from “Bettlejuice”

    The Parade is accompanied by mysterious light and fog effects

    Dr Plague looking down on you

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    The army of wandering phantoms

    The lights and the colors in full spectrum

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    Each character has a story, each one of them can pull you in to their mysterious world

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    Parade is closing with the sound of drums and dark army of piromans

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    Julia Dunin

    Julia Dunin

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    Julia Dunin is a professional photographer with creative approach towards commercial and editorial photography. Her main areas of expertise are food, life-style and portrait.. Julia is based in Galway, Ireland but often travels for various photography projects in different parts of the Universe.

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    Julia Dunin

    Julia Dunin

    Author, Community member

    Julia Dunin is a professional photographer with creative approach towards commercial and editorial photography. Her main areas of expertise are food, life-style and portrait.. Julia is based in Galway, Ireland but often travels for various photography projects in different parts of the Universe.

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