Touring performances:

Luna has been experimenting for the past few years with bilingual adaptations of traditional stories and folk forms. Both of Luna's touring shows described below use shadow puppets, masks, and music, and require a stage or performance area no smaller than four yards wide, three yards deep, and three yards high.

Currently booking in high schools, colleges and communities:

"The Nose," (an absurd shadow play)

The Nose is a modern, absurd reinterpretation of the Gogol short story, a surreal tale of a man who wakes up one morning to find his nose missing. The performance utilizes movement, music, shadow puppets, and language to highlight the story's surreal and dramatic elements. It is a bilingual performance, and can be performed in Russian, English, or both. The Nose is performed by three puppeteers. It runs approximately one half hour, and can be followed by a discussion and demonstration period, or a shadow puppet building workshop.

and

"Rocks, Flames, and Other Misfortunes"

Rocks, Flames, and Other Misfortunes is a series of short puppetry and live music pieces. Images are inspired by Russian Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, seasonal changes, urban landscapes, human behavior, and lyrics from traditional Bulgarian music. The show explores ways of challenging the parameters of traditional shadow puppetry by decorating the human body, by using children's toys, and by incorporating masks and giant puppets. Rocks, Flames, and Other Misfortunes includes scenes we have already developed, such as "Planting Peppers," "Kalimanku," and "The Red Cape," as well as several new works currently in the process of creation. This is a multi-lingual performance and is performed entirely in Bulgarian, Russian, and gibberish.