About
What is it?
The Dreaming Project is a First Nations-owned community-based arts company run by Dylan Singh in partnership with other arts organisations. We put dreaming stories on stage in place. Our team uses a wide range of styles and approaches to showcase dreaming stories specific to each site, providing audiences with an opportunity to learn and participate in cultural practices.
We create immersive work through a fusion of circus, physical theatre, projection art, music, dance, visual arts and more, that blends dynamic styles and forms to showcase the vast diversity of Australia’s peoples and places.
We aim to support communities by involving them in all stages of the development process, from workshops to internships. The Dreaming Project follows specific protocols of practice that enable us to collaborate with any community and help bring their stories to life
Our core values are:
First Nations stories should always be told by First Nations people
Allow and respect First Nations and Aboriginal Land Council engagement protocols
Create opportunities for emerging artists to shadow professionals during productions
Always engage local communities to explore stories of place and Country
Experiment and push the boundaries of multi-artform performance
Projects
The Dreaming Project, Neighbourhood Contemporary Art Festival, 2022
Form: Multi-artform performance
Artists: Dylan Singh, Tarryn Love, Brent Watkins, Monica Jasmine Karo, Kiara Malcolm, Edan Porter, Little Projector Company
Presenting partners: Footscray Community Arts Centre and Neighbourhood Contemporary Art Festival
Creative processes: Creative workshops, projection design, animation, improvisation, projection installations
Commissioning partners : Creative Australia, Jewell Box, Footscray Community Arts and Creative Victoria.
Creative development video, The Dreaming Project, Neighbourhood Festival, Footscray Community Arts,
What is it?
Time. Place. Space.
Drawing inspiration from ceremony and cultural connection, The Dreaming Project celebrates multiple elements of Aboriginal dreamtime. A rich movement of storytelling led by First Nations creatives, The Dreaming Project brings together circus performance, projection art, lighting, dance and traditional practices. Each show commences at sunset. As darkness descends, we begin with fire and gradually introduce new elements.
Through sound, light and performance – every detail is carefully selected, endeavouring to honour ancestry and represent the beginning of Country. By illuminating and activating different spaces, Dylan Singh’s vision and creativity will breathe life into the story with a sequence of performances informed by ancestry and connection to Country. As you go through a cycle of interconnected and compounding stories, The Dreaming Project is a promenade performance that will transport you to otherworldly places for an unforgettable and enriching experience.
The Dreaming project celebrates the Past, the present, and the future.
Watch the highlights video below.
Highlights video, Dreaming Project, Neighbourhood Festival, Footscray Community Arts,
Tomorrow's Beginning by The Dreaming Project, Yirramboi Festival, 2023
Form: Multi-artform performance
Artists: Dylan Singh, Tarryn Love, Little Projector Company
Presenting partners: Yirramboi Festival 2023
Creative processes: Circus performance, dance, projection design, sound design, animation, improvisation, projection installations
Commissioning partners : Yirramboi Festival
What’s next for the Dreaming Project?
The Dreaming Project is a move forward for First Nations art, aiming to represent aspects of First Nations culture, art and expression, including our deep songlines, dreaming stories, dances and paintings. We use projections, music and physical performance to bring these stories alive. We hope to share these stories with audiences and other First Nations mob around the world, and using physical action to tell these stories while the music and projections create layers of experiences to touch all elements of the human senses.
We use our traditional learning with modern technologies to tell the stories of modern First Nations mob and their Dreaming. Dreaming has never left us and in many ways, we express it differently, be it dance, music, circus or any other art form. Our Dreaming is vast and evolving, and it is important that the Dreaming Project holds onto that space but also shares this with the world.
Some of the ways that The Dreaming Project will be staged in the future…
Art festivals and staged productions: Site-responsive storytelling and performances
Community engagement projects: Social health and connection
One off spectacles: Abseiling silo performances
Touring theatrical shows
We are seeking partners and communities to collaborate with.
Please contact us.
The Dreaming Project
Lee Ramseyer Bache