Dream I Tell You

Flickering through dream-narratives, Dream I Tell You explores and explodes archetypes of the unconscious in a psychedelic tone-poem. Audience members are offered milk and cookies at the bar before entering an immersive set and sound-scape. Images from dreams collide and bleed into each other, coalescing into dances and tableaus. Designed to create an experience of disorientation and hypnosis, Dream I Tell You is a trip.

Dream I Tell You performed July 26th-August 4th, 2012 at Cloud City in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The performance’s text derives from dream journals recorded by varied sources including the writers Georges Perec and Helene Cixous, the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, and the late novels of Brazilian visionary Clarice Lispector.

Directed, designed, written, and produced Ben Gansky

Costume design Josh Allen

Live score composed and performed Andrew Lynch

Performed by Josh Allen, Ernest Bentley, John Egan, Haley Houck, Katie Melby