Researching what it means to literally juggle letters of the alphabet
A new circus technique that combines the innovative technology of 3D printing with the age-old tradition of the juggling apparatus, Dawn dreams present the Juggling Poet: the research of juggling letters..
The Juggling Poet is an undertaking of discovering how objects can be used to represent language and how they can be arranged in the air, much like we arrange them in text on a page. In a project that intersects circus, 3D printing, and linguistics – Dawn Dreams illustrates the way in which art communicates our inherent love for both balance and risk, ambiguity and clarity, and a fine balance between contemplation and fun.
New Apparatus, New Technique, New audiences!
3D Printing & Production
Your audience will be hypnotized with the rarely seen art of contact juggling, then dazzled by the aray of characters, and blown away by the storm on the ships and the battle scenes.
Anagrams and Word Play
A show made specifically for a classical symphony based on a timeless masterpiece, made anew! This show customized specifically to pair with Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite, Scheherazade
A New Way to Look at Language
Be certain that this show will bring a fresh faced audience to see the symphony. Bringing a theatrical element to your event and creating a visual representation of your music will inspire new audiences to flock to your event.
Book Your Symphony Now!
We are booking into the 2020-2021 season, so give us a call now for your chance to have this unique offering at your symphonic event!
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What People Are Saying
“It was magnificent, very well paced and extremely well suited to the music.”
“Dawn’s delicately balanced display of skill seemed to weave through and coalesce with each movement of the music, bringing an extraordinary aliveness to the story. Sophisticated, ingenious, dazzling — a truly beautiful experience. Dawn is blazing the trail for our symphonies to welcome working alongside ever more innovative talent. Bravo!”
“Dawn incarnated strength, power and confidence with so much artistic technique. Her dancing with the Symphony for so long had lots of vulnerability and a wide range of emotions. she was always surprising with her presence and creativity on stage.”
About Dawn Dreams
Dawn Dreams is a motivational educator and performance artist. She has performed in 4 different continents, in 14 countries, and 35 cities around the world. She completed an arts residency in France which reset her artistic practice from the ground up. By reexamining how to walk, speak, drive and be on a stage in one of the richest cultural centers of the world, she came out with a new perspective on the world.
Meeting others along her travels have helped shape her understanding of performance, and how art is viewed differently in each country. Some of Dawn’s experiences include: living in a converted convent in provincial France working on a 40 minute solo show focused on juggling letters of the alphabet; hula hooping with a samba band during a thunderstorm at a clown convention in Rio de Janeiro; Performing a 40 minute one woman juggling show to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade with a full orchestra in Ontario, Canada; Stilt walking up mountains through to a group of hula hooping child monks in Thailand. She’s been pepper sprayed by a “wacko” because she was juggling for a crowd too close to the Santiago university riots; and she’s also crossed the border to Burma with 20 fully dressed clowns in a tuk-tuk to then perform her 1-5 ball act.
Dawn is now a mother and she incorporated the juggling, writing and clowning into her caregiving. She continues to study the psychology of play, and grounds this knowledge in scientific literature. Dawn is a busking advocate and has been working alongside Busk.co since 2011 to help art be free to all people. She is now in creation mode, bringing all of her skills together in one big show!
About 1001 Circus Delights
1001 Arabian Nights, One of the greatest fairytales of all time, told through the medium of contemporary juggling styles such as contact juggling, staff spinning, flag spinning and more! This one woman show rests on the backbone of Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite: Scheherazade.
A sensational fantasy told through the ballet of objects along side this classical piece, Dawn transitions through a variety of characters from the Sultan to the ships hand, through the lovers and finally Scheherazade the storyteller herself.
The debut of this performance was with the Kingston Symphony at the Isabella Theatre. Evan Mitchell had the vision for artistic piece and called to invite Dawn to help him make it come alive. Alive it was! A full 40 minute solo performance accompanied the second, third & forth movements of this beautiful classical masterpiece. Using character work throughout, Dawn intertwined crystal ball manipulation, juggling, flag spinning, staff and tableau work to tell all the stories of 1001 nights.