Return the Moon

by Third Rail Projects
(original music and sound design)
Zoom performance

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RETURN THE MOON is a live performance created specifically for the Zoom platform which invites audience members to collectively construct a shared experience that is one part toast, one part ritual, and one part retelling of a very old story of how the Moon was lost and found again.  Matching decidedly analog tools of performance with the unique opportunities that the Zoom platform affords, RETURN THE MOON combines text, movement, cinematic visuals, and music. It also enfolds offerings from audience members to create a rumination on remembrance and recurrence, the interplay of shadow and light, and how a shared experience might linger and reverberate over the passage of time. The work also features an epistolary component; after the performance, every audience member is mailed a package that contains content and interactive artifacts from their shared event.

Created by: Alberto Denis, Kristin Dwyer, Joshua Gonzales, Sean Hagerty, Justin Lynch, Zach Morris, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara OCon, Edward Rice

Conceived and Directed by: Zach Morris

Assistant Direction by: Marissa Nielsen-Pincus

Choreography by: Marissa Nielsen-Pincus with Alberto Denis, Joshua Gonzales, Justin Lynch, Zach Morris, and Tara OCon

Performed by: Alberto Denis, Joshua Gonzales, Justin Lynch, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara OCon, and Kim Savarino.

Sound Design and Original Music by: Sean Hagerty

Visual Design by: Zach Morris in collaboration with Alberto Denis, Kristin Dwyer, Joshua Gonzales, Justin Lynch, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara OCon, Edward Rice

Stage Management by: Kristin Dwyer and Taylor Hollister

Production Management by: Kristin Dwyer, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, and Edward Rice

Produced by: Zach Morris and Edward Rice