Dawn Dreams is an motivational educator and performance artist. She has performed in 4 different continents, in 14 countries, and 35 cities around the world. She completed an arts residency in France which reset her artistic practice from the ground up. By reexamining how to walk, speak, drive and be on a stage in one of the richest cultural centres of the world, she came out with a new perspective.
Meeting others along her travels have helped shape her understanding of performance, and how art is viewed differently in each country. Some of Dawn’s experiences include: living in a converted convent in provincial France working on a 40 minute solo show focused on juggling letters of the alphabet; hula hooping with a samba band during a thunderstorm at a clown convention in Rio de Janeiro; Performing a 40 minute one woman juggling show to Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade with a full orchestra in Ontario, Canada; Stilt walking up mountains through to a group of hula hooping child monks in Thailand. She’s been pepper sprayed by a “wacko” because she was juggling for a crowd too close to the Santiago university riots; and she’s also crossed the border to Burma with 20 fully dressed clowns in a tuk-tuk to then perform her 1-5 ball act.
Dawn is now a mother and she incorporated the juggling, writing and clowning into her caregiving. She continues to study the psychology of play, and grounds this knowledge in scientific literature. Dawn is a busking advocate and has been working alongside Busk.co since 2011 to help art be free to all people. She is now in creation mode, bringing all of her skills together in one big show!
