Red Moon Rising is committed to creating bold, image-based works of dance-theatre that speak to their audience through a heightened physical language and emotional charge.

The company’s primary stylistic influence stems from the expressionistic dance practice of butoh, which is often controversial in its extremity.  Having studied extensively in Australia, Japan and Korea, Jeremy Neideck, Ellen Rijs and Polly Sara are now committed to exploring the ways in which butoh can fuse with other mediums and speak to a contemporary Australian audience.

Red Moon Rising’s debut production, Sketches Of Blood, premiered at the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival, and in 2010 was nominated for ‘Best Dance’ at the Adelaide Fringe Festival.

The company’s second work, The Oak’s Bride was presented in Melbourne at The Donkey Wheel House as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival. This production was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts through the New Work, Young Artist Initiative.

Red Moon Rising’s latest work, Deluge, is being shown in June as part of the Metro Arts FreeRange 2011 program in Brisbane in association with REM Theatre and the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.