The Dream Index is a study in image, a prototype for paradox. How does one create an index of dreams? How can the fluid subjective fantasy align and be reconciled with the formatted objective? Can mathematics be surreal? Can dreams be deconstructed in terms of logic? And how can the dream be represented in the moment of performance, with the inescapable presence of the real human body?

Thus TheDream Index is an experiment, a meditation on form and content. It has been realised by the collated visions of the version 1.0 network in a short, intensive period. A whirlwind of dinner parties and arguments. Conceptual and choreographic maps developed over four weeks and overlayed onto bodies in four days. A nightmare indeed. That The dream index has anything resembling coherence and beauty is a tribute to the tireless dedication of all concerned. I thank you for your faith and a licence to mine your dreams.

David Williams, version 1.0, June 1998

Devised and performed by:
Angie Macnevin
Chenoeh Miller
Jane Parkin
David Williams
Damon Young
Keith Kempis

Additional performers:
Mark Byrne
Mark Franklin
Jonathan Guile
Michael Wilkins
Geoff Wilkinson
Renton Wright

Lighting by:
the Fibre Cement Company
(Craig Anderson and Tony Walters)
and David Parkin.

Sound by:
Tania Payne