To experience a dream, to daydream, to imagine, to have aspiration or hope. Dreams are things of waking and sleep. Organizing and creating from our daily thoughts, interactions, experiences, dreams inhabit our imagination. Imagination helps us visualize that which may not yet be in physical reality, considered vital to curiosity, innovation, leadership and emotional well-being. An in-between state, dreaming is a transitory space, and one that is recognized beyond boundaries or differences, everyone dreams of something.

This performance transforms a building’s portal into a passageway, a bridge between dreams and reality. As participants walk through, they are immersed in a soundscape composed of dream recitations—both those experienced in sleep and aspirations from the waking state—projected through small, hanging or surrounding speakers. Audiences are invited to contribute by recording their own dreams at a dream collection station during the evening festival, with their recordings added to the evolving dream choir throughout the performances.

Through movement, costuming, and a live sound installation featuring the dream choir, alongside acoustic and electronic instrumentation played by the dancers, the performance captures the vivid, otherworldly essence of the dream state and its influence on our waking life.

About the artist:

Nadine Lollino

Nadine Lollino has been creating and performing in the arts of dance, costume making and video since 2002. She currently creates as MovementLab. Nadine has previously danced with Anatomical Dance Theater, Breakbone Dance Co., and the Humans, all Chicago-based companies and was co-founder of multi-media collective PosterchildArt.

She has been presenting her own works since 2005, traveling nationally and internationally. Nadine has worked extensively with Trey Donovan performing in Santa Cruz and Taos. They have participated in multiple PASEO Project experiences. Nadine also practices massage therapy and teaches yoga. She has been teaching 3Bodies, a creative movement practice for all communities to connect to the healing found in dance and music. Check out videos of past and current works at vimeo.com/nadinelollino

Trey Donovan

Trey Donovan brings together such diverse cultural elements as music/sound-art, language, dance, sculpture, structure and technology to synthesize impressions of our place in the universe. His recent projects involve him in music and dance composition and improvisation, and draw on influences from nature, culture, and experimental artistic discoveries. Trey has studied, taught and performed with a variety of butoh-based companies and teachers since 2001, in the SF Bay Area and Seattle. He now resides in an Earthship in Taos, NM. Check out his offerings in design and change management at infoarc.io