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.
"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."
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.