What if we strive to create the conditions to dream here, together?
We dream
grieve
rage
party
rest
here…
Kirsty Biff Nicolson and collaborators are researching
We Dream Here a performance ritual, queer magic, a cabaret
What happens if we dream here, together? What can we dream into existence? For us? For future generations?
We are multidisciplinary, neuroqueer trans/gender-non-conforming artists, collaborating to create an immersive play and dreaming space. Here, a multitude of ways of being, breathing, and dreaming are made possible through acts of performance and ritual – a neuroqueering of the cabaret form.
What happens when we collaborate to create a performance that centres trans/gender-non-conforming and neurodivergent practices, rhythms and ways?
What happens when we embrace a multitude of access points and ways of being for performers, creators and audiences?
What happens if we create a process and performance where access is intrinsically and playfully considered? Are we able to unmask?
The body can be as it is.
You can lie down here.
You can move here.
You can laugh here.
You can cry here.
You can be here, in your fullness, messiness…
You can leave, you can return.
We Dream Here is a project by Kirsty Biff Nicolson in collaboration with multidisciplinary artists who they’ve met through queer performance networks.
Collaborating on this idea is important to Biff as they so often have felt unable to engage in the cabaret and queer underground performance spaces they love. They have known many of their peers to feel similarly.
We’ve always created the spaces we need to continue to exist, resist, and dream of other possible futures for the next generations. This is an attempt to do this…
This research is rooted in a reverence/relation to the land, human and more than human ancestors of this work; all those who came before, with and after us.
A period of research and development took place in Edinburgh 2024 with the following collaborators:
K Biff Nicolson – Lead Artist
Dre Spisto – Artist
Frankie Mullholland – Artist and Sound Designer
Lou Brodie – Access Coordinator
Luke Pell – Artist, Dramaturg and Access Collaborator
Max Alexander – Artist
Nikhita Devi – Artist
Nik Paget-Tomlinson – Technician
Tiu Makkonen – Photography
