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Soldier & Wrigley Fields Host First Walk Through by Gay Games Production Crew
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Chicago landmarks are sites of 2006 Chicago Gay Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies
2005-10-27
Chicago organizers of the 2006 Gay Games have taken a key step in the evolution of the 2006 Gay Games Ceremonies. Gay Games Ceremonies Creative Director Kile Ozier gathered his creative team in mid October for the first meeting and walk through of Chicago’s Soldier Field and Wrigley Field, the world class icons that will bookend the 15-22 July 2006 Gay Games.
 Both the Opening Ceremony at Soldier Field (15 July 2006) and the Closing Ceremony at Wrigley Field (22 July 2006) will feature international-renowned entertainment, spectacular performances, as well as all of the ceremony and protocol associated with the Gay Games Ceremonies, including the traditional marching in of the participants.
Hosting the creative team for the Chicago walk through were Donna Sue van Cleaf Fish and Matt McGinn of Chicago-based Jam Productions. This past June, Jam Productions was awarded the contract to produce the 2006 Gay Games Ceremonies after a 3-month competitive bidding process. Jam is one of the top grossing concert companies over the past thirty years and is the largest independent company of its kind in the USA.
 A team of world-class icons of movement gathered to plan how they will coordinate a corps of 400 dancers, gymnasts, aerialists and performers of movement during the ceremony. The extraordinary team includes Iega Jeff of Chicago’s Deeply Rooted Dance Company; Joel Hall, worldwide icon of dance who is a Gay Games Champion and has his own Chicago-based dance company; Michele Lynch, a former Radio City Rockette and currently a Broadway and national theatrical/spectacle choreographer; and Chris Harrison, founder of New York’s Anti Gravity aerial and acrobatic troupe of world-class gymnasts and athletes. All have agreed to join Creative Director Kile Ozier to create an experience unlike any before it.
 Leaders and national representatives of Lesbian and Gay Bands, Cheer Teams and Color Guard/Drill Teams are also an integral part of this creative team and participated in the walk-through.
Standing on the floor of Soldier Field, home to American-style football’s Chicago Bears and host to countless sports and entertainments events, Ozier began a tour of this landmark with a talk-through of the script concepts that ended, 90 minutes later and several stories higher, in a skybox above the field of play and performance. At noon, the group transferred to Wrigley Field, home of the much beloved Major League Baseball Chicago Cubs, to go through the same process with respect to Closing Ceremonies, scheduled for Saturday 22 July 2006.
High Resolution Photos (Photo Credit on all – Rick Aguilar)
Ceremony Walk Through – Soldier Field
Ceremony Walk Through – Soldier Field #2
Ceremony Walk Through – Wrigley Field
Ceremony Walk Through – Wrigley Field #2
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