taken from: http://www.encroach.net Chicago-based performance art group Environmental Encroachment (EE) uses circus theatrics, live music and costumes to create unique entertainment environments, parades, processions, concerts, D.I.Y. activist marching band encroachments, and art happenings. EE combines a costumed marching band with multi-media stage performance antics, including dancers, invented instruments, hooping, juggling, puppetry, and skits. EE encourages people to interact, be a part, be curious, dance, play. Influences include North African and Afro-Cuban healing trance musics, Parliament-Funkadelic, New Orleans Brass and Mardi Gras societies, and street bands that HONK! EE can expand to the size of your event - stage shows, mobile experiences, children's shows, Holiday events, street busking, tactical comic encroachments, festivals, rituals, ceremonies, vaudevillian skits, electric and acoustic music jams, funerals, and births. some of the places EE has performed: Cleveland Performance Art Festival '98 World Refugee Day Annual Buddha's Peace and Happiness Parade NASCAR Lollapalooza Puppetropolis Krannert Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Houston Art Car Parade and Museum Chicago Folk and Roots Fest Chicago World Music Festival Burning Man Chiditarod Absurd Shopping Cart Race Rotary International Centennial World Naked Bike Ride Chicago's Frozen Fun Fest '09 see also : http://www.encroach.net http://www.myspace.com/eeenvironmentalencroachment http://www.facebook.com/pages/Environmental-Encroachment/55818218297