Fact: You don’t have to be Neil Gaiman to do compelling and delightful things with dreams.
You could be, for instance, Alexis Powell of Hearsay & Hyperbole, a voice, video, and performance group based out of New York City and currently preparing to stage a multimedia, dream-enhanced sleepover event at Salvage Vanguard Theatre on New Year’s Day.
Over the past eight months, Powell’s been inviting Brooklyn-based artists to participate in sleepovers in spaces around NYC, collecting the dream data on which this Austin performance will be based, featuring Jessica Asch, Annie Sicherman, Sam Stein, and Candace Thompson – musicians and dancers from Hearsay & Hyperbole’s diverse and rotating cast, of which Powell is the only constant.
When you head over to Salvage Vanguard in the final week of 2015, what you can experience is the show’s opening reception – a reception (Tue., Dec. 29, 8:30pm) that includes a live performance of Dream Songs – and the immersive beauty of the ongoing installation. And then, on New Year’s Day, you can be part of the oneiric action itself – by joining the sleepover in SVT’s bedecked Lobby Gallery and drifting off to dreamland with friends & neighbors, breaching the membrane of 2016’s second day among the sights and sounds of what Hearsay & Hyperbole have brought so beautifully to the waking world.
This article appears in December 18 • 2015.