2009 Winter Pageant
November 20 – December 27, 2009
The 2009 Winter Pageant continued Redmoons celebration of the seasons and its commitment to a alternative holiday event. The event was sold out every show to families from throughout Chicago. Once again, a world of dream, magic and whimsy penetrated the cold Chicago winter.
Last of My Species: The Fearless Songs of Laarna Cortaan
September 5 – September 13, 2009
Redmoon spent the summer of 2009 unveiling objects and songs through guerilla performances across the city culminating in this larger-than-life theatrical concert. Combining elements of Redmoon’s Momentary Opera and involving a variety of original machines, including the Drum Cart, the Gramophone Machine, the Weather Machine, and the Impossibly Tall Ladder Machine, Last of My Species: The Fearless Songs of Laarna Cortaan spent two weekends mesmerizing over 7,000 people with its amazing aerial acrobatics and the invention of “Norwegian Pop star” Laarna Cortaan.
REDMOON 2009 – JANUARY TO AUGUST
March 13th
SPECTACLE LUNATIQUE
Redmoon transformed its home into a fantasy land of chaos and beauty.
May 15th
REDMOON SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
…presented its Spring Harvest event—a ceremony ritual that altered each floor of the Roscoe Village school with family work stations woven into a powerful event that was an original ceremony designed, constructed and performed by 6 class grades (over 200 students as authors and participants) for the 2009 graduating eight graders.
May 16th and 17th
GREEN FEST
Redmoon presented “The Occasional Museum of Pedal, Pump, and Push Power Technologies”, an intimate collection of wild mechanical objects that each promoted a different environmental activity anyone can take to reduce their daily footprint, a commission by The Chicago Department of the Environment.
May 18th – 30th
DRAMAGIRLS
…presented “She saw one million sea starsâ€, an event which altered a church hall into a dreamy underwater factory-the culmination of nine months of work between girls from the Logan Square neighborhood collaborating with their adult mentors in artistic exploration.
June 25th – 28th
THEATER ON THE LAKE
Once Upon A Time played at The Chicago Park District Theater on the Lake.
June 12th – 20th
EUGENE O’NEILL CONFERENCE
Artistic Director, Frank Maugeri developed a new work, Cape and Squiggle Society at the The O’Neill Puppetry Conference where he served as primary guest artist. www.oneillpuppetryconference.com
THE MOMENTARY OPERA – ARTISTIC EPHEMERA
April 29th
ART CHICAGO- The Momentary Opera lovingly assaults Chicago’s greatest art exposition. 2000 people saw the opera.
June 11th, Millennium Park
The Momentary Opera sang to the crowd gathered for Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, 5000 people witnessed the song and celebration.
June 28th, Boys Town, Pride Parade
The Gramophone Cart and Tub Boat and an ensemble of 25 performers marched in front of approximately 450,000 people.
July 1st, Whole Foods, 5% Community Support Day
The Momentary Opera sang to shoppers at 5 Chicago locations, 3000 people saw our bombastic playfulness.
July 23rd, Eli’s Cheesecake Company
500 cheesecake fans get an opera for desert.
July 30th, Daley Plaza Farmer’s Market
Over 1000 downtown Chicagoans enjoy lunch and bombastic entertainment.
August 4th
Grant Park Movie Night
August 6th
Galapalooza
Winter Pageant Redux
October November 15, 2008 through January 4th, 2009
Redmoon’s longest-running spectacle returned to delight families on the 2008 holiday season. Seven masked characters journeyed through beautiful landscapes representing the four seasons. Beginning with summer, traveling through fall and winter, and culminating with spring, each season had enchanting objects, puppets, choreography and song.
Dr. Egg and the Man with No Ear
September 4 through Oct 19, 2008
“There’s nothing in the city’s mainstream-performance scene with which to compare it. Inducing the kind of double-takes reserved for Pixar movies – the actors and puppets against a black background resemble high-res animation – the bold, optically startling Dr. Egg… is the first Redmoon show I’ve seen that left me not satisfied but craving more…. Creatively, it’s a treat. Visually, it’s a new standard.” (Chris Piatt, Time Out Chicago)
Boneyard Prayer
March 15 through May 25, 2008
Redmoon explores struggle, sorrow, and salvation in this stunning, imaginative new Jeff-recommended production, called “a masterful work of art” by The Sun-Times, a “marvel” by The Chicago Tribune, and “deeply affecting” by The Chicago Reader!
Hunchback
Dates: November 29, 2007 – February 3, 2008
Redmoon’s 2007 season concludes with a remount of the company’s acclaimed Hunchback, an adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame…
The Princess Club
September 1 – October 27, 2007
Created by Redmoon Artistic Director Jim Lasko with an ensemble of women performers, The Princess Club is a wildly physical and thought-provoking romp through classic fairy tales including Cinderella and Snow White.
Neighborhood Arts Programs Youth Spring Spectacles
May 17 – 26, 2007
Dramagirls and Redmoon School Partnership Program at Audubon School present their spring spectacles!
Once Upon a Time (Or the Secret Language of Birds)
February 3 – April 8, 2007
Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times as “an hour of blissful escapism,” Once Upon a Time tells a tale of friendship, villainy, dreams, and heroism that unfolds in an elaborately crafted toy theater. Set in a bleak 1920s American city, the story’s heroine is Emily, a lonely young girl who understands the language of birds.
Spectacle ‘06: Twilight Orchard
October 3 – 9, 2006
Spectacle ‘06: Twilight Orchard will present a number of interactive site-specific installations designed by local artists, fourteen-foot-tall moveable walls which will continually transform into different rooms with various characters inside, and “sound pods” traveling throughout the park…
The Balloon Man
July 22 – July 30, 2006
The Balloon Man mixes Redmoon spectacle, hard science, and geek rock in a show engineered for kids and adults alike. A roving team of scientists recruit a hapless children’s entertainer and an intrepid youngster named Beatrice to search for that rarest of species – the wild Picnob!
The Golden Truffle
April 5 – June 18, 2006
A musical spectacle extravaganza of colossal imagination, audiences will be treated to celebratory song, dazzling dance numbers, surreal service apparatus, frenetic live music, flashing paparazzi, and a four-course chocolate dessert by Chicago’s most luxurious chocolatier, Vosges Haut-Chocolat.
From Nothing
November 30 – December 23, 2005
From Nothing is a dreamscape, a place of awe and wonder, of play, created by artists from Chicago and beyond, whose talents range from dance to visual college, architecture, performance and design.
