The work will focus on the practice of dreaming aware, and on becoming awake to the ongoing dreaming process that is accompanying our conscious existence, allowing this continuous flow of images to in-form the body, influence its’ presence and become the source of actions. We will work on participants’ night dreams, opening a dialogue with them and using their structure as a kaleidoscopic map for creativity. Employing the procedure of dream opening and the tool of shifting perspectives, we will discover ways of unfolding the body, expanding it into a multiple, ever flowing entity that playfully shifts between real and imagined, between being and doing, distance and proximity, aware of the continuous flow of impulses, able to choose which one to follow and embody. The aim of the research is to combine intuitive ways of creating with conscious choreographic decisions, and to empower performers to connect with their dreams as legible sources of knowledge and foundations for creativity.
During the whole process, dancers will be collecting their night dreams, starting a dialogue with them, and systematically ‘opening’ dream material through the body with the help of the tools from “The School of Images.” By immersing into this layering process, which combines conscious operations with sensing, feeling and embodying the dream, one receives multidimensional access to the night material. With the help of the tool of shifting perspectives: between being performer, witness and observer, one expands a singular text of a dream into an embodied, versatile movement scape with vast spaces for dreams’ own work, and for further performative explorations. I aim at finding ways in which one can become an expanded, alert and active agent, letting go into the dreaming process as the source supporting creative choreographic decisions.