Written By: Jaidan Slowik, Staff Writer
FRIGHTENING: The Riverside Ghost Walk wass here to terrify and entertain the masses to celebrate Halloween with the community!
Interested in a Halloween festival full of different frightening attractions and fantastic performances? Then the Ghost Walk, founded by Riverside ballet, is the perfect option for you. It is a spooky party at White Park, where each year a new theme guides unique and scary fun for all. There are frightening tours to join, DJing and other live performances, as well as plenty of food, ghost stories, and even a flash mob. The Ghost Walk is open every year in October and is the perfect place for all Halloween enthusiasts who care to join in on the fun. This year a kids costume contest and carnival is being introduced for children under ten, and the Ghost Walk Riverside dancers have prepared their own dance interpretation of Thriller with fantastic makeup and costumes.
Our students have performed in a number of terrifying shows inspired by all kinds of horror. These include dark poetry readings, dances, and even a student-made script this year. This year’s theme for Ghost Walk is Nevermore, morbid dark twisted tales such as work by Edgar Allan Poe and the famous Wednesday Addams from the Addams family. Hannah Laag, a senior at Poly, is the director and choreographer of this year’s Ghost Walk story. Hannah wrote a script entitled The Wanderer’s Dreams, a nod to Poe’s own works. “My Ghostwalk is based off of two of his poems, which are The Haunted Palace and Dreamland.”
Her work adapts ideas of death and the afterlife, as well as vaguely gothic themes that draw parallels between dreams and reality. Hannah has been a part of Ghost Walk for the past four years, “I would recommend that people interested in acting and things do Ghost Walk…And I would recommend non theater people come watch Ghostwalk, cause it’s really good for community building.”
The gates opened on Friday October 25th and closed on Saturday the 26th. A ton of fun was had by all who attended.