For Immediate Release
November 7, 2009

“WINTER PAGEANT 2009” AN EVENT FOR ALL AGES at Redmoon Central

November 2009, Chicago – After Redmoon’s Halloween performance at the White House October 31st, the company returns to its home in the industrial corridor of West Town to present its longest running spectacular tradition: Winter Pageant 2009. Redmoon has committed to continuing their 15-year tradition of creating an event where Chicago’s communities and families can gather to celebrate the holiday season in an accessible, beautiful and unique way. Redmoon invites you to this year’s Winter Pageant where you’ll be able to experience many of the performance elements that paraded around the White House grounds and played about in the halls of the East Wing Residence.

Redmoon’s family friendly annual event returns to celebrate the changing seasons and the coming of spring. Expect the unexpected.

DATES: Previews Nov 14 & 15, Opens NOV 20 – DEC 27 (no shows NOV 26, DEC 24 & 25)

TIMES: THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS at 7:30 PM, SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS at 4:00 & 7:30 PM

WHERE: REDMOON CENTRAL, 1463 W. HUBBARD STREET, CHICAGO, IL 60642

TICKETS: Adults: $15 Seniors & Under 10: $10
To Purchase Tickets: 312.850.8440 ×111 OR www.redmoon.org

FAMILY PICNIC PERFORMANCES: SATURDAY, NOV 28 & DEC 19 at 2:30 PM
Purchase a special ticket that includes a boxed lunch with the artists, served at Redmoon Central, followed by
the 4:00 PM performance.
Family of 4: $100 Adults: $30 Kids: $20

HOLIDAY ART SALE: SATURDAY DEC 5, 12 – 7:30 PM
Do your holiday shopping with Redmoon!

“Inspired by Chicago’s industry and working class foundation— the ‘muscle and poetry’ of this city— Redmoon is committed to producing and presenting our unique art form outside of traditional contexts,” noted Artistic Director Frank Maugeri. “Redmoon’s audience always loves our alternative take on the ‘Holiday Show’. As we’ve been reinventing Winter Pageant off-and-on as a holiday celebration since 1991, focusing on creating community not through typical commercial Christmas themes or worn out holiday classics but rather engineering a journey that explores nature, humanity, ritual, storytelling… We get rid of the fluff and commercial noise around the holidays and attempt to reconnect people to what we feel is its essence – community through a shared experience of dreamscapes of the imagination.”

Directed by Associate Artistic Director Vanessa Stalling and co-created with Artistic Director Frank Maugeri, Resident Artist Jim Lasko and Executive Producer Rebecca Hunter in collaboration with a team of Redmoon artists.

Winter Pageant 2009 will take audiences on a visual, dream-like journey that explores collective universal themes: nature, humanity, ritual, storytelling, by creating a theatrical experience that’s intimate and interactive, involving and inspiring spectators in a shared, live event. An event that is memorable both by critics (2008 Jeff Nominated Production) and by audience members (6,500 people over 6 weeks). This year’s Winter Pageant will gradually reveal a fanciful journey for audience members through the four seasons beginning with summer, traveling through autumn and winter and culminating with the rising of the sun in spring.

Redmoon has a commitment to creating new pathways for more audiences to encounter and participate in art and culture. In 2009, Redmoon successfully collaborated with the Chicago Park District for Spectacle 09: Last of My Species, The Fearless Songs Of Laarna Cortaan at Belmont Harbor; the University of Chicago for a production of Hunchback at Rockefeller Chapel, and is delighted to collaborate with Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on Swan Lake in December 2009.

This year’s “Winter Pageant” production has donated a select number of tickets to Title 1 school students in the North Lawndale neighborhood in order to fulfill on that commitment. Please contact Redmoon for more details.

Production credits include, Music Composition: Mark Messing, Sound Design: Mikhail Fiksel, Lighting Design: Nick Matonich, Object Light Design: Chase Corman, Lead Artisans: Chantal Calato, Tyler Burke, Tara Smith, Gretta Johnson, Performance Ensemble: Missi Davis, Nick Demeris, Sarah Fornace, Alexander Knapp, Matt Rudy, Eric Swanson, Dustin Valenta.

2009 Winter Pageant is made possible through the generous support of the following contributors:

The Mullen Family Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; and by a CityArts Program 3 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

Redmoon was founded in 1990 to promote a unique brand of performance committed to the highest quality artistic product and to civic well-being. Pulling with conviction from contemporary art forms and ancient theatrical forms, Redmoon has created a performance style that is equal parts pageantry, gadgetry, acrobatics, and ephemera. Over the past decade Redmoon has garnered international attention for theatrical productions and site-specific performances, which have been seen across Chicago from the Jackson Park Lagoon, the façade of Museum of Contemporary Art to Belmont Harbor and theater venues such as Steppenwolf. Over recent years, Redmoon has developed expanding projects in Holland, Ireland, France, and Australia. The company was recently honored to perform for the President and First Lady at the White House for Halloween 2009. Redmoon is committed to a mission of creating unexpected theater in unexpected locations.

Redmoon is a proud member of The League of Chicago Theatres and a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.