DREAM FEED
A New Devised Piece by
Justin Hicks and Kenita Miller Hicks
(of The HawtPlates)
Scenic + Lighting + Video Design by Kent Barrett
Costume Design by Sherry Harper McCombs
What does it mean for us to dream at this moment in time? What can we learn from the absurdity, the wildness of the dream state? How do we allow the very personal language of our dreams to inflect our waking lives? With this work, we offer a moment to pause and make use of what we conceive when our bodies are at rest and our imaginations remain hyperactive.
“Dream Feed” is an electro-acoustic song cycle that drops The HawtPlates and the audience into a dream sequence - in the humor, terror, beauty, and allure of the active mind within a slumbering body. The HawtPlates utilize a vocabulary of gestures, lyrics, vocables, and exchanges to bring some of our most common shared dreams into collective view while playfully engaging the concept album as an interdisciplinary performance form.
