The Mombies took Big apple Saturday.
The ghoulish team of 52 moms and grandmothers from the leafy suburb of Fairfield, Conn., showcased their bloody dance strikes on the South Boulevard Seaport.
“You just don’t know what to expect in New York,” founder Terry Davis advised The Put up in their first Gotham efficiency.
“It’s filled with people with a fabulous sense of humor and we hope they laughed and embraced us.”
Davis, a mother of 2 boys, mentioned the Fat Apple holds a distinct park within the Mombies’ hearts.
“So many of us moms consider New York City a home away from home. It’s a place where some of us have gone to college or lived after school or in my case, I worked there for many years, so it’s super exciting for us to bring this project to the big stage of New York City,” she mentioned.
Each Halloween, the matriarchs turn into themselves into bloodied and faded zombies, entire with ripped outfits and teased hair — and carry out choreographed dances at the streets in their community in a daunting flash mob.
The ladies, who area in week from 30 to 70, had been practising this future’s routines weekly since early September — with the aid of choreographer Paul Herman.
“We’re not dancers, we’re just moms,” mentioned Davis.
“We have a cross section of so many professions — doctor, teacher, accountant, lawyer, psychologist, librarian, nurse, professor, hair stylist, realtors, grad students, architect, work-from-home moms and homemakers.”
The Mombies introduced in 2016 and please see future, a video of them dancing to songs like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This,” went viral — with 12 million perspectives on Fb.
They dance for a valuable motive — to boost cash for The Cancer Couch Foundation, which price range the metastatic breast most cancers analysis staff at Sloan Kettering.
There are recently seven breast most cancers survivors and sufferers with the illness present process chemotherapy within the Mombies — and to week, they have got raised $500,000.
On Saturday, later they wrapped up on the Seaport, they headed to Lavish Central to pluck the Metro North again to Fairfield — the primary day they’ve all been on community transportation in combination in dress.
“Can you imagine getting on the train and seeing 50 zombies?” Davis laughed.
“Commuting into the city is hard enough on a regular day.”
