ECE produces "Artistic" Grand Opening of Taubman Art Museum
You couldn't miss the Cirikli Stilt Birds at last weekend's opening of the Taubman Museum of Art. Twelve feet tall, graceful in the ungainly way some wading birds are graceful, they preened and strutted down Salem Avenue and Market Street well into the night, mesmerizing kids and adults alike.
Wherever they went, the cameras came out. At one point as the big birds gathered together on Market Street, there were 30 or 40 people crouched around them in a semicircle, with their cameras clicking away.
It turns out the bird puppets were one of two performing Cirikli groups, according to John Wolfslayer of the Richmond-based East Coast Entertainment, which booked them for the art museum event. "Cirikli" is from the Romany language of the Gypsies and means "bird."
Excerpt from: Museum goers aflutter over stilt birds
by Kevin Kittredge
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