'Guerrilla' dancers storm the streets
Members of the Performance Corporation treat the passers-by on Dame Street, Dublin, to their own brand of 'guerrilla ceili', as part of St Patrick?s Festival
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Bemused onlookers gaped in delight as an 'impromptu' mass jig broke out in the heart of Dublin city centre yesterday.
Posing as passersby, more than a hundred performers suddenly took their positions in front of the Central Bank on Dame Street and began dancing accompanied by a street band playing banjos, guitars and bodhrams.
Dozens of tourists sporting leprechaun hats, bus commuters and workers looked on in amusement and captured the moment of apparent madness on their mobile phone cameras.
"Is this like random or what?" a confused teenage girl asked her friends as the group of performers from The Performance Corporation treated the crowd to their own brand of 'guerrilla ceili' as part of the lead-up to today's St Patrick's Day celebrations. "I love it, I think it's great," said National College of Art and Design student Sarah Clarke (21) from Monaghan.
But the staged event wasn't as spontaneous as organisers would have people believe.
Chris Mehigan (32) from Kildare heard rumours that something interesting was about to unfold from a tip posted on the Twitter social networking site.
"I knew something was going down. These flash mobs are quite well established now," he said.
The brief street performance, which was over almost as soon as it began shortly after 6pm, was organised by the same people who staged a group snog called 'Kiss' in which more than a hundred performers broke into a flurry of passionate kissing in Dublin's Ilac centre.
- Allison Bray
