Chicago Symphony Orchestra Collaboration
December, 2009
Redmoon was invited to collaborate with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on a shadow puppet adaptation of Swan Lake. More than 8,000 people saw this gorgeous performance over its 4 evening run at Chicago’s Symphony Hall.
White House Halloween Event
October 31, 2009
“When you get a phone call from the White House you’ve got to admit, it doesn’t matter who you are – it tends to make you feel pretty important. That’s what happened to us. We got the call and it made us feel like we had conquered the world, that we had an opportunity to put Redmoon on a national platform. ‘To expose,’ as one Redmoon supporter put it: ‘Chicago’s local treasure to everyone!’ “
Hunchback at Rockefeller Chapel
October 22 – October 25, 2009
2000 people came to The University of Chicago’s historic Rockefeller Chapel to enjoy another transformation of our classic production of Hunchback. This opportunity provided the Redmoon team, under director Leslie Bauxbaum Danzig, to reimagine the story, the images, and the chapel in wonderful and unexpected ways. An unforgettable night at the chapel.
Once Upon a Time (Or the Secret Language of Birds) in France
September 22 – September 25, 2009
Once Upon A Time was invited to The Festival Mondial Des Theatres de Marionnettes in Charleville-Mézières Cedex, France September 2009. The production played 3 days to over 1000 international audience members and was hailed as one of the finest works at the worlds largest and most reputable puppetry Festival in the world. For more about the festival go to festival-marionnette.com.
Once Upon a Time (Or the Secret Language of Birds) in LA
June 14 & 15, 2008
The fable created by Frank Maugeri and novelist Joe Meno traveled to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to participate in the first-ever Toy Theater Festival.
The Temporarium
June 6 & 7 ONLY!
Join us for a momentary act of beauty, when Redmoon Central is transformed into a space to experience.
The Temporarium includes a cash bar, and thus is for those age 21 and up.
Looptopia
May 11, 2007
Redmoon is thrilled to participate in the Chicago Loop Alliance’s Looptopia, America’s first ever dusk-to-dawn cultural and artistic spectacle showcasing the vibrancy and excitement of Chicago’s historical Loop neighborhood.
Dream Masons
March 23 – 26, 2007
Drawing on water mythology and history unique to Tasmania, Dream Masons, a new spectacle by Redmoon Artistic Director Jim Lasko, designer Joey van der Werven, and director and puppeteer Jessica Wilson, transforms the facade of the iconic Salamanca Arts Centre (SAC) into an awesome theatrical spectacle of grand proportions.
Millennium Park Founder’s Dinner
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
At this spectacular private party, large opaque clouds made from lace and delicate bedding hung from the ceiling with a backdrop of night blue. Each cloud held either a trio of musicians playing ethereal, playful and at times eerie and dreamlike music, or characters asleep in beds.
Art Institute Ground Breaking
May 31, 2005
Redmoon Theater activated the north garden of the Art Institute by creating a ritual of giving, adoration and hope. The Groundbreaking Ceremony anointed the garden with flowers, scents, sound and ritual activity, honoring the old and celebrating the new.
Millennium Park Opening Ceremony
Unveiling: July 16, 2004
Illumination: July 17, 2004
In celebration of Millennium Park’s Grand Opening Redmoon Theater provided a large-scale illumination ceremony. Seventy performers dressed in elegant earth toned kimonos processed into the park over the bridge waving large white flags.
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