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The background of our daily lives is the night and the dreams inhabiting it. In deep sleep beautiful figures appear, or as we wake up, the recurrence of unwanted images and dreams let
us wonder about their meaning or their reasons for existing.
By designing a ‘stage’ for dreaming, Dreamed apparatus looks into this nocturnal occurrence, and our wandering into these memories. Using simple gestures, the performers draft, evoke and play with the dream and their eventual keys. Their actions create a texture in which language, movement and images are no longer trapped in a logic based on meaning, but are able to interchange, collide and entangle. Together with the operators they construct an apparatus wherein the unknown, the free-floating and the non-rational become the protagonists.
'Dreamed apparatus' is a performance installation. It can be watched for a few minutes or one hour, it's a very simple gesture: one performer draws on a black stage with a stick full of white sand. The line that he draws is erased by another performer. Therefore, in between those two performers, the line evolves and changes shape endlessly. It follows the words of Henry Michaux about Klee's work: "to let a line dream". On stage the line is somehow dreaming.
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