Bridge of Dreams

Following the success of last year’s Where Are We Going? Almeida Projects returned to the Bridge School from February to April 2008. The Bridge School is a school for students with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties, and our aim was to create another fantastic site-specific, multi-sensory performance in the school's new drama studio. 

This year’s project Bridge of Dreams took its inspiration from the Almeida's production of Marianne Dreams. Over the course of six weeks, director Dan Ayling, designer Charlie Damigos, performers Nick Khan, Imogen Knight and Amaka Okafor and volunteers from our principal supporter Lehman Brothers worked with the students and staff from the Bridge School to explore the nature of dreams using music, dance and drama.

The school’s new drama studio was transformed into a magical dream world using a giant parachute silk to create a vast performance tent. This was filled with bright lights and vibrant sounds to recreate the excitement and thrill of dreams and take the students and their audience on an extraordinary journey through the dream world of their wildest imagination.

The working process was recorded in a series of weekly rehearsal blogs.  Just click on the links on the right to find out how the performance was developed and to see some photographs of our weekly workshop sessions.