For this week's blog, I decided to look at other peers' blogs first in hopes of finding inspiration from one of their own findings. It totally worked! Julia's Disneyland installment blog reminded me of an installation I saw two years ago at the Phoenix Zoo's annual "Zoolights" holiday show; it was called "Dancing Trees". According to Kurt Stelling, zoo special events supervisor, "one of the favorite highlights of the estimated 250,000 people who attend ZooLights each year is the dancing tree show". The show is basically made up of 8 to 10 trees, each about 30 feet tall, that are wrapped in colored lights. The lights are then synched to holiday music and "in essence, the trees dance to the music," Strait said.
The show takes about four months to install and prepare. I can't imagine how the staff lays out such a complex display, but I remember the show being very visually appealling and a lot of fun to listen to! I am excited to hear that this year they are making a huge change to the dancing tree show "Music & Motion" due to new sound and programming equipment; all I know is that there's going to be surround sound...I"M SO EXCITED!! :D