¿What is the Dream Palace?

Dream Palace is an architecture for dreaming together, a space built, inhabited, and dissolved, leaving only what the dreamers carry with them. To create each dream palace, director-founder Leslie Claire summons a group of Dream Architects (or they summon her). For the process that unfurls within the Dream Palace, Leslie draws inspiration from dreamaturgy, a strategy developed by Daisy Campbell and Kate Alderton, collaborators of the Dream Palace, a way of working with dreams not as symbols to be interpreted, but as living forces to be tended. Where dramaturgy asks what a story needs to become itself, dreamaturgy asks the same of a dream: what does it want to be? What happens when we let go of the need to interpret our dreams and allow the dream to keep on dreaming?

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The Dream Architects:

Each brings their own quietly unfolding world. You may find yourself pulled into a salon, out onto the water, inside an awareness circle, weaving scenes, or watching dreams become music. You won't know until the dice fall.

Leslie Claire
Founder & Artistic Director

Evan Root
Awareness Circles;
macrobiotics pioneer & founder of Erewhon

Wassim Alsindi
Writer & Researcher

Ash K. Halliburton
Film Director & Production Designer

Kate Alderton
Dream Fisher; Dream Tending practitioner

Ozzy Algar Comedian, writer, actor & storyteller; double Comedian's Choice Award nominee

Joe Coles surreal cabaret artist and inventor of the H.E.L.E.N Home Delivery Comedy service

Jussi Brightmore Music Director exploring liminal consciousness

Vasileios Basios Physicist; researcher of non-local consciousness

Eric Wargo
Researcher in precognitive dreaming & retrocausality

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