You experience one third of your life here... in dreams.
DREAMS is a choral concert experience presenting a set of six musical dreams one might have in the course of a night. The set features ensemble and chamber music from Nightingale vocalists, dancers Chloe Chua and Olivier Besson, music by Eric Whitacre, Edie Hill, Gabriel Jackson, Judith Weir, and two world premieres from Nightingale's own Laura Nevitt and John Haukoos. DREAMS explores various REM visions - the classic "flying dream" in the mind of Leonardo da Vinci, our deepest subconscious desires, trains, juxtaposition, space and time, exile, sleepiness, and wakefulness. The program closes with "a true blue dream of sky," which celebrates the vivid world around us in waking life, ending with the text:
DREAMS is a choral concert experience presenting a set of six musical dreams one might have in the course of a night. The set features ensemble and chamber music from Nightingale vocalists, dancers Chloe Chua and Olivier Besson, music by Eric Whitacre, Edie Hill, Gabriel Jackson, Judith Weir, and two world premieres from Nightingale's own Laura Nevitt and John Haukoos. DREAMS explores various REM visions - the classic "flying dream" in the mind of Leonardo da Vinci, our deepest subconscious desires, trains, juxtaposition, space and time, exile, sleepiness, and wakefulness. The program closes with "a true blue dream of sky," which celebrates the vivid world around us in waking life, ending with the text:
"my eyes are opened."
What will you see?
What will you see?
A COLLABORATION WITH DANCERS OLIVIER BESSON AND CHLOE CHUA
Olivier Besson is a French native and Boston based movement artist whose work has been presented in France (Paris, Nice), Japan (Tokyo), Russia (Yaroslav),Taiwan (Taipei), India (Bangalore), Canada (Montreal) and throughout the US. He currently teaches at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he is an associate professor of dance. He curates “Moment’s Notice,” a Conservatory sponsored interdisciplinary performance series, rooted in the experimental study and expression of improvisation.
Chloe Chua was born in Singapore, in 1998. At age 3, she started her dance journey at Attitude Performing Arts Studio, under the tutelage of Donato C. Ferrer. She went on to pursue her passion for dance at School of The Arts, Singapore (SOTA) from 2011 to 2016, and graduated as one of the top scorers in the International Baccalaureate Career-related Program. Currently, Chloe is attending the Boston Conservatory at Berklee under merit scholarship, and will earn her undergraduate degree in the spring of 2022. To enrich her dance education, Chloe has attended dance intensives at The Juilliard School (2016), Batsheva Dance Company (2017/2018) and Nuova Officina Della Danza Summer Program (2019). In an environment where interdisciplinary possibilities are endless, Chloe enjoys using this to her advantage by building connections and collaborating with artists from other art forms.
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