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eveningsong  > Parades > Halloween Parade - NYC Village - October 31, 2010
Photos from 2010 Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village
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October 31, 2010. 38th Annual New York Village Haloween Parade - Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village
The nation's largest Halloween celebration with 50,000 marchers, 2 million spectators and 1 million TV viewers
The only major night parade in the U.S.
Each year, parade organizers choose a theme for the NYC Halloween Parade. This year's theme is "Memento Mori" - Remembrance of Death (Photos shot during pre-parade preparations)
Twenty years ago the iconic Day of the Dead puppets first appeared in the Village Halloween Parade, NYC's festival of All Souls tied to ritual traditions worldwide - the Guede in Port-au-Prince, the Skull and Bones Gang of New Orleans, in the calaveras of Oaxaca, the Midnight Robbers of Trinidad, and beyond
Often it is in the places where tragedy is more ubiquitous and everyday existence can be more of a struggle, that expressions of the Dead are the most exuberant, a reminder that life itself, despite its hardships, is a gift
The Dead - as they return to drink coffee, play checkers, watch TV, but above all, to dance - offer us a mirror to see with fresh eyes the everyday things in our lives, rendered invisible by routine
Every sound, action, and motion we take for granted, they rejoice in - on the one night they can
So each year, when the skeletons take their place at the head of the Halloween Parade, they are not grim expressions of the morbid but rather joyful reminders of all that is vital
October 31, 2010. 38th Annual New York Village Haloween Parade - Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village
October 31, 2010. 38th Annual New York Village Haloween Parade - Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village
October 31, 2010. 38th Annual New York Village Haloween Parade - Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village
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