Lucent Dossier Experience to Get Up Close and Personal at H.Wood

The Lucent Dossier performance troupe is back. After taking a hiatus from its year-long residency at the faux-speakeasy to end all speakeasies (The Edison), the Burning Man-inspired collective is heading to H. Wood, which struck me as an unusual and possibly provocative pairing. H. Wood is where the short-lived but fabulous Diamond Dogs party was held -- and it’s essentially a remnant of a strip mall refashioned in a nightclub by Amanda Demme. We talked to Lucent founder Dream Rockwell yesterday. In the midst of prepping for the big night tonight, she told us about how H. Wood’s much more modern and minimal decor will affect their performances.

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“It’s a really cool space,” she said of the club. “It’s broken up into tiny rooms. It has a super intimate feel to it. ... We’ll be doing wandering performances, aerial stuff. There are different ways of being inside that particular space.” As a result, she said, they are going to do micro-performances: “There’s not really one open room. It’s primarily hallways and nooks and crannies. We’re going to fill those nooks and crannies with wacky little performances throughout the venue.”

Those performances—in addition to the aerial acts and burlesque- and cabaret-inspired stuff—will also be one-on-one. You’ll be getting up close and personal with the troupe. “We’re going to be a lot more of our service stations. We do the Post Portal Post Office—where we deliver messages, letters that have been lost in other dimensions,” she giggles. “We have the elixir man, aura readings, and I think we’re doing a teddy bear tea party. There’s ego massage.”

What is the world is and ego massage, you might ask yourself? She gives a mischievous cackle. “Aha haha. You’ll have to come and find out.”

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