THE DREAM MAKERS

CREDITS
CONCEPT | CHOREOGRAPHY
Davide Terlingo
PRODUCTION
Daghdha Dance Company | EV+A 2006
BOOKLET DESIGN | PHOTOS
Davide Terlingo

PREMIERE
28th March 2006
Limerick
Part of EV+A 2006
International Visual Arts Festival

OVERVIEW
Following the steps of Terlingo´s developments in applied choreography - with works such as Iris (part of Cork 2005) and The Problem Solvers (Framemakers, Limerick) - The Dream Makers invites participants towards a new perception of the locations and actions of our daily lives; it is a way to expand possibilities, applying choreography as an epistemological tool infused into the social landscape.

THE CHOREOGRAPHY
The choreography is divided in two parts: a series of choreographed rituals/suggestions to be experienced in the span of a single day, and a choreographed dream to be dreamt at night.
The rituals/suggestions consist of various experiences that the dream maker will propose to the dreamers. For instance, the dream maker invites the dreamer to perform a task, to read a text, watch some images or simply walk around the city. Thess meetings happen in specific locations at specific times, culminating in a last meeting where the dream maker reveals a series of rituals that the dreamer performs on his/her own before going to sleep. During the last encounter with the dream maker, dreamers are also given a scroll of white paper: to document on the following morning what they have dreamt: a choreographed dream consisting of an oneiric journey of discovery.

THE PEOPLE
The Dream Makers is accessible to anyone. People can participate both in the role of dream makers or of dreamers.
Dream makers learn in advance the choreography and guide the dreamers through the day, meeting them at specific times in specific places to reveal and fulfil the various stages of the choreography.
Dreamers directly experience the choreography, agreeing to be guided during the day towards the choreographed dream that they will experience at night.
All dream makers are invited to take possession of the choreography and act on it as they wish: guiding any number of dreamers, changing aspects of the choreography and initiating other dream makers.