Our beautiful Korean collaborators are en route back to Seoul, and as the dust settles we are already planning for the next incarnation of Deluge… Until then though, check out the video highlights of the work-in-progress, presented in The Whitlam at Metro Arts.

This project could not have happened without the support of support of 2011 FreeRange at Metro Arts, the REM Theatre and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture artist exchange program and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

At standard temperature and pressure, water exists in dynamic equilibrium
It is a cosmic byproduct of star formation
It is an agent of cataclysmic transformation
God help those that stand in its way

Red Moon Rising returns to the development floor to craft a fable that communicates over time, geography and language. Directed by Jeremy Neideck, this exciting ensemble of dancers and musicians will join Korean performers Tak Hoyoung, Park Younghee and Jung Minji to interrogate the junction between the placid and the apocalyptic.

 “FreeRange 2011 will be a wild and terrifying ride, an explosion of ideas and a collision of practices, forms and cultures.” 

BUNKER: The Whitlam
TIME: 8:30PM
SHOWING: Mon June 27 & Tues June 28
TICKETS: $5 | www.metroarts.com.au | (07) 3002 7100

Arts writier Chris Boyd wrote in his blog that Red Moon Rising was one of the “most interesting group[s] or artist[s]” in 2010.

Lets get cracking 2011!

Love. Loss. Sacrifice.

In this dynamic work of physical performance, Red Moon Rising draws heavily on the style of Butoh to tackle stories of struggle, fragility and hope.

Encrusted in white paint and sculpted fabric, three performers enthrall and intrigue the audience, exploring what it is to be living, breathing organisms interacting with each other.

After a successful season at the 2008 Melbourne Fringe, Red Moon Rising is proud to present Sketches of Blood.

Arcade Lane – Regent Two
Entry off Grenfell Street
Between Regent and Adelaide Arcade

Wednesday 3rd to Saturday 13th March @ 8:00pm
[No performances 8th or 9th March]

Tickets $12 (Fringe benefits) $15 (Concession) $20 (Full)
Bookings: 1300 FRINGE (374 643) | www.adelaidefringe.com.au

Inspired by Ted Hughes’ poetic novel Gaudete, The Oak’s Bride explores self-fragmentation, duality and identity. Drawing on Butoh and dance, this piece of movement-based image-theatre will be an experience both surprising and affecting.

Part of the Explorations season at La Mama, The Oak’s Bride is a development showing of a larger scale work from Red Moon Rising to be included in the 2010 Next Wave Festival.

Created and performed by Ellen Rijs.

With original composition by Jeremy Neideck.

Oct 30, 31 & Nov 1, 7:30pm

All tickets $12

Bookings: www.lamama.com.au

9347 6142

GIVE US ALL YOUR MONEY

[so we can dance for you]

It’s Wednesday night, and you are ready for some drinks. Spend the hump on Gertrude’s Brown Couch. Yes, it is a fundraiser for Red Moon Rising’s 2010 season, but will also be an amazing night out with three of the hottest acts in town.

The Animators
www.myspace.com/theanimators1

Tom Ballard
Triple J, Best Newcomer Melbourne International Comedy Fest 2009
www.tomballard.com.au

Sarah Baxter
www.sarahbaxter.com.au

PLUS: auction, raffles, drinks, butoh…

Wednesday 16 September, 2009
Gertrude’s Brown Couch, Fitzroy

$12 Entry – Doors open 7pm

RSVP and more details on Facebook

Hope to see you there! – Polly, Ellen, Jeremy

‘Strange Earth’, a new solo dance installation.

Choreography, Original Music, Costume and Design by Jeremy Neideck.

Produced in collaboration with Red Moon Rising, Aphids, The Australia-Korea Foundation, The National Art Studio Changdong, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea.

The Oak’s Bride is inspired by Ted Hughes’ poetic novel Gaudete. This text illuminates a beautiful and electrifying apocalypse and was chosen for its immediate and visceral nature. The language is rich and full of extremely evocative imagery that urges the reader to reach into themselves to make sense of it.

In a similar way, Red Moon Rising strives to create boldly physical, image-based theatrical environments that encourage the audience to mindfully engage with the work and respond honestly to it.

Using the expressionistic physical theatre style of Butoh, The Oak’s Bride explores what happens to the human body when its component parts are at war. It confronts contemporary issues such as the fragmentation of identity through technology, the archetypical struggle between life and its shadow and the innately human drive for power over others.

The Oak’s Bride asks: what happens when the primal and evolved collide on a world that, in Hughes’ own words is “out of control”? This site-specific work will involve the integration of live performers with immersive projected worlds, incorporating animation, live drawing and filmic material. This work will explore the relationship between bodies in space and how they interact with these living, interactive environments.