What is dreamseminar/ drömseminarium?
dreamseminar/ drömseminarium is a new music-theater piece produced by Companion Star based on the texts of contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, the music of composer Ellen Lindquist, and developed collaboratively through improvisation by an international company of musicians and artists. dreamseminar/ drömseminarium is a bilingual work in English and Swedish that creates an environment in which the spaces between the real and unreal elements of life are bridged, an important theme that appears throughout Tranströmer's work. The cast of dreamseminar/ drömseminarium includes two singer/actors and a chamber orchestra of eleven instrumentalist/actors, newly formed into the ensemble, Skogensemble.
dreamseminar/ drömseminarium is a large-scale work, roughly 75 minutes in length, to be premiered in September of 2011, and performed in the United States, Sweden, and Canada.
Background image for the Dream Seminar website is provided by Patrick from his flickr stream under the Creative Commons License. Thank you.
