They've graced the stages of Coachella, Burning Man, and Lightning In A Bottle, stealing hearts wherever they go. They're the Lucent Dossier Experience, a group of collaborators and creators started by Dream Rockwell, a jack-of-all-trades performer herself. The Lucent Dossier Experience celebrates the strange, the interesting, and the imaginative; nothing you see is "normal." Members of the troupe are clad in other-wordly, steampunk costumes that seem to be pulled straight out of a fairytale world. Aerial artists hypnotize audiences on ribbons and suspended structures alike, creating soaring, kinetic, human scultpures with their bodies. Ethereal, tribal music fills the stage and accentuates each and every movement of the performers, creating a beautiful marriage of audio and visual experience. The Lucent Dossier Experience is anything and everything you could have asked for in a performance, all mixed onto one stage.

The Lucent Dossier Experience isn't just another fluff act that aims to appeal with lots of shiny bells and whistles and nothing more, however. In fall of 2013, I had the privilege of interviewing Dream, and she gave some beautiful insight into what makes The Lucent Dossier Experience so special. Dream explained that the idea for Lucent was born out of her reactions to her experiences growing up in a culture dominated by pop culture. She saw a world that wanted to categorize each person into a vague classification - jock, nerd, dancer, singer, pretty, ugly, success, failure - and all of these labels seemed to her to be constructed out of an inability to appreciate the broad spectrum of humanity. Each individual is too many things to be classified under one label, so Dream created Lucent Dossier as an alternate world where every person could engage and interact with all of the many parts that make him/herself unique. Take one peak at the video below, and you'll know exactly what she's talking about.