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Dreaming Awake: excerpts from a lucid mind...

Dreaming Awake: excerpts from a lucid mind, is an evening-length movement/theater piece that begins with a story about a young woman who has powerful dreams where she is able to see things below the surface to essentially witness and experience the hidden truth. In her dreams she can see and hear the spirits of the ancestors of the Ohlone people who were buried in sacred burial grounds under Emeryvilles Bay Street Shopping Mall. She can see the truth behind the lies of the big car companies who suppressed the production and distribution of the electric car. She can see the greed of companies like Wal-Mart as they participate in a system that is unsustainable financially and environmentally. She can see the injustices of the health care system through the eyes of sick people who need help, but cant get it. She can see the truth about her own power as a young woman, even as it is masked in the mysogyny of popular cultural all around her. She can also see visions of individuals and communities who have made a difference. Eventually her sleeping dreams enter her waking reality and her family, in fear and desperation, bring her to a hospital for help. At the hospital she loses her ability to see her visions and loses her confidence in her own power. But our heroine has spirit helpers who help restore her visions and give her the tools to make the changes she want to see in her world.

The Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (DAYPC) is a multicultural group of teens who create original performance art pieces, in collaboration with professional artists, that combine hip-hop, modern, and aerial dance, theater, martial arts, song and rap. The productions are a dynamic, creative forum for the young people to express their fears, hopes and strategies for confronting challenging personal and social issues. The company has performed locally and nationally since 1993 for over 25,000 audience members annually.

DAYPC comes out of Destiny Arts Center, an Oakland-based nonprofit violence prevention and arts education organization that has been serving youth for over 20 years, through after-school, summer and weekend programs in dance, theater, martial arts, conflict resolution, self-defense, and youth leadership at our Oakland center and in over 25 East Bay public schools and other community centers.