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    Mark Brennan Doerries, Artistic Director

    DREAMING IN DARKNESS
    FRIDAY & SATURDAY DECEMBER 12 & 13, 2008
   7:30PM - IU ART MUSEUM - PLAZA
    Reception to follow performance

    Music Direction - Mark Brennan Doerries
    Lighting Design - Sean Michael Smallman
    Sponsered by the Indiana University Art Museum
  Multi-sensory performance art, a continually evolving genre,
    aims to stimulate audiences’ eyes, ears, and emotions to create
    penetrating and intense new compositions and performances. 
    Dreaming in Darkness merges musical, theatrical and visual
    narratives into a single performance of light and sound that
    interweave creating powerful images of the transformative
    forces of darkness and color.

    Dreaming in Darkness’ music paints rich sonorous descriptions
    of the enveloping, comforting and mystic elements of the night. 
    It is at dusk and evening that we drop many of our fears; we feel
    freer to look one another in the eyes, speak loving and difficult
    truths, end old relationships and build new paths.  Darkness is not
    an abyss, devoid of light and substance, but rather an intense emotion,
    a psychological location, and a time of day that releases new colors,
    shadows and images of the natural world not visible to us beneath
    the sun’s rays.  Light Totem, a work of art in its own right, has
    illuminated the Indiana University campus for the past year and
    has become part of the evening landscape.  Its use in Dreaming
    in Darkness not only lights the night terrain, it conjures and depicts
    the foreboding and consoling narrative each musical depiction of
    evening unfurls. 

    Immersed in this sonic and visual world, we watch the struggles
    and successes of a couple learning to look, listen, condemn and
    embrace under the cover of darkness; a relationship that comes to
    life only under the protection of twilight.  But, will what begins in
    darkness continue into light?  The powers and mysteries of darkness
    are at once destructive and forgiving; Dreaming in Darkness explores
    our innermost desires to connect to others amidst nightfall’s vivid pallet.