How Not to Get Arrested for Dancing in the Streets
Bird in the Sky Primary School of Behavioral Art completed another joyful protest to standardized behavior in downtown Saint Paul on Sept. 1. Don’t You Feel It Too befuddled and amused conventioneers, media, downtown workers, and the security forces. One dancer reported “I am so happy to have been part of this shared experience. One of the highlights from my solo dancing yesterday: I was in front of a row of policeman who at first had somewhat stern expressions, then softened a bit, some cracked smiles, and then a little while later I looked back at them and one of them held up the back of a police manual where he had written a big “8.5″. So many wonderful moments!”
Here are a few more links to videos and print press.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Ghzt7Iefc
Twin Cites blog called it “the highlight of the Saint Paul experience” (half way down the article): http://tcsidewalks.blogspot.com/2008/09/saint-pauls-rnc-police-makeover.html
Alas, the group’s still photographer didn’t make it–she was “detained” for being in the wrong place at the right time. See her Flickr photos of the Shepard Road arrest scene.