"Deja Revé" - choreography by Hanna Szychowicz

Dancers:
The Dreamer - Stanley Young
The Stranger - Hanna Szychowicz
Choreography: Hanna Szychowicz
Music: NWIA - Valentin Stip
Lights: Hanna Szychowicz, Estelle Le Brun
Cameraman: Cameron Aird
Edit: Hanna Szychowicz
‚A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.’
Yoko Ono
The piece tells a story of a simple man who has a dream about a woman he’s never met before. They both go through their lives in different ways and are forced to make tough choices about their futures. They want each other but can’t decide if it’s the right thing to do. Somehow they keep gravitating towards one another. Even though they try, it ends with mutual decision to separate, and that’s when the man wakes up from his dream. Along his path of life he sees a woman he has never met in reality but has already dreamed their whole life together. The rest is history, or is it?
‚The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.’
Paul Valery
Deja reve feels similar to deja vu, however, it is quite different.
Rather than feeling like you’ve experienced something before when you know you haven’t, deja reve is when you know you’ve dreamed something before.
Dreams are trying to show you something about your life that you are not aware of. Some may in fact anticipate future experiences.
‚Nothing happens unless first we dream.’
Carl Sandburg