{"id":81,"date":"2010-01-28T22:06:24","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T04:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2020-08-01T06:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T11:41:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Founded in 1998 by Amy Ballestad and Shelley Chinander, Hijinks Stilts explores the ancient and universal art of stiltwalking. We also explore the powerful dynamic of working together as an all-female collective.<\/p>\n
Through an initial grant from FORECAST Public ArtWorks, we were able to build stilts, make long-legged costumes, and create several small community performances.<\/p>\n
In the years since, we have collaborated with puppeteers, dancers, singers, aerialists, and pyrotechnicians to create original performances. Our pieces range from tall-tale puppet shows in school gyms to flaming pyrotechnic pageants in urban corridors.<\/p>\n
Our artists also teach stiltwalking in workshops and summer youth camps.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t
We’re an evolving and erratic group – wild and winsome, cathartic, chaotic, and creative – and you’ll rarely find us in the same place at the same time. In and out of this mercurial group have waltzed a fabulous array of women, including, but not limited to the following:<\/p>\n
A Brief History Founded in 1998 by Amy Ballestad and Shelley Chinander, Hijinks Stilts explores the ancient and universal art of stiltwalking. We also explore the powerful dynamic of working together as an all-female collective. Through an initial grant from FORECAST Public ArtWorks, we were able to build stilts, make long-legged costumes, and create several…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hijinks-stilts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}