Dancing Zombies Queued Up For Chicago's Halloween Parade This Weekend
(CBS) -- "Monty, are we ready to take it from the top?"
Dancers run through their "Thriller" routine one more time at the Studebaker Theater stage. The group will perform for the masses as anchor of this weekend's twilight Halloween parade.
"I love Michael Jackson and have been impersonating him for years, so I'm excited to be part of this. We will be on the tail end of the parade with the dancers as zombies," says Monty Revell of Movement Revolution Dance Troupe.
The performance will feature nearly 100 dancers.
The Chicago Cultural Mile's Halloween Gathering Festival and Parade will showcase Chicago's vast creative communities for an all-day festival culminating in a nighttime parade.
"The Halloween Gathering is designed to promote Halloween as the artist's holiday," says Sharene Shariatzadeh, executive director of the Chicago Cultural Mile.
"It's really an area that deserves its own identity," she adds. "We've been working very hard for a few years to draw attention to that. We wanted to create an event to not only help brand that but that would bring visitors down to celebrate what's at the heart of the cultural mile, which is really Chicago's dynamic cultural community."
The event will feature workshops, mask making, free dance and theater performances, pop-up installations and live music.
The parade kicks off at 6 p.m. at Columbus Drive, north from Balboa to Monroe. Events will be going on all day, including a kid's costume parade at 2 p.m. at Maggie Daley Park.