Lucent Dossier Experience
Encyclopedia
Lucent Dossier Experience (whose name loosely translates to "a collection of glowing light") is an interactive, avant-garde
circus
, electronic rock band, performance troupe and entertainment company. The company's performances combine live original music
and vocals with circus arts, dance
, aerial arts and fire performance
.
The troupe has been described as a "high-concept, steampunk
-meets-neotribal performance ensemble" and its immersive spectacle
s as a "post-apocalyptic," "exotic wonderland". The company's headquarters are in the downtown fashion district of Los Angeles, California
.
Performers in Lucent's theatrical spectacles include singers, musicians, acrobat
s, aerial artists, stilt walkers, fire dancers, tribal belly dance
rs, a wide variety of other dance
rs (hip hop, burlesque
, and Tahitian), spoken word poets
, clown
s, contortionists, elves
, a bearded lady
, a snake charmer
/dancer, jugglers, and a sword swallower.
Lucent Dossier's original music style creates a "surreal soundtrack" and has its base in electronica but uses live instruments to fill out the sound that include violins, sitars, guitars, drums, bass, hung, and more.
Lucent Dossier Experience "is recognized for their interactive, surrealistic performance that breaks barriers between them and the audience".
Lucent's aerial performers use both traditional aerial apparatus such as trapeze
, aerial silk, aerial hoop
, span sets, aerial rope or Spanish web
, as well as custom-made aerial apparatus unique to the group, including a large aerial moon, bird cage, spider web, straps (similar in effect to a straitjacket), and aerial carousel.
Fire performers work with different styles of tools including fire staff, fire poi, fire fans, fire hoop, fire sword, fire knives, fire cups, fire rope, fire chains, aerial fire acts, and fire nunchaku
.
The interactive portions of Lucent's performances include oracle
or tarot
readings, rose water foot baths, gypsies offering herbal elixirs, a tribal temporary tattoo
parlor, a "Music Shack" where songs are custom-written, Post Portal Post Office where lost letters are delivered from other dimensions and performed on the spot for guests, and a "Transformation Station" where audience members can receive fantasy hair and makeup applications.
All the performers dress in fantastical costumes and makeup
unique to Lucent Dossier. Their costuming often consists of recycled and found objects that might include the bones, wings, teeth and feathers of animals found dead either on the side of the road or in the forest. They are known for their custom body airbrush tattoo makeup, a look they originated in 2005. This tribal body art gives them their signature otherworldly, haute couture
look.
The company is the brainchild of performer/artistic director Dream Rockwell. Lucent was a spinoff of The Do LaB, an art collective/event-creation company of which Rockwell is a founding member. Rockwell started Lucent after meeting and being inspired by Brent "Shrine" Spears (the Pasadena-based folk artist responsible for the design of the interior of the House of Blues
chain and the 2008 Burning Man Temple), performer/choreographer Roger Fojas (formerly of the LA-based Dream Circus), and performer/choreographer Lisa Han. They were later joined by Dayna Riesgo as production coordinator and Dana Guidry as manager and financial officer who spent 3 years with the company and was succeeded by Mike Kaminsky. The final piece to the puzzle was finding head aerialist Alicia Schultze, who took the show off the ground and up into the air.
The Awakening
-included 21 performers and took place at the "Sea of Dreams" New Year's Eve
party on December 31, 2004, in the historic Park Plaza Hotel
in Los Angeles. Close to 4,000 people attended the event. The performers all dressed in white with tribal body paint, bones, feathers and Victorian lace.
EnchantSelf
-A story about a village of elves living in life-size mushrooms.
"A Horse Named Tramp"
-played only one night for Circo 6 at the historic Los Angeles Theater.
"The Forbidden Om
-designed and performed in a Buckminster Fuller
geodesic dome
. The show, an apocalyptic journey to another planet premiered at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
2006 before playing LIB, Electric Picnic Ireland, Serienetta Italy, Art Outside, Austin, Tx and several other dates around the world.
The F Show
-(their first fire show)
"Aquius
-(their first water show) at Coachella 2007, which subsequently toured to Lightning in a Bottle in Santa Barbara
, California, Summer Sonic
in Japan
, and Electric Picnic
in Ireland
.
S. S. Lucent Dossier
A larger scale water show, created for Coachella; the show later toured to Lightning in a Bottle, Alive!
'08 in Portugal
where the front cover of the Portugal Expresso declared "Bob Dylan left us disillusioned, but Lucent Dossier, with their acrobatic performances, more than made up for it. Lucent Dossier have caught fire more then any other band has been capable of doing in the long menu of performances offered by the organization. Not even Rage Against The Machine, that had put the arena for bullfighting on the main stage on thursday, could come close to the collective hypnosis obtained by the group", and Electric Picnic.
In April 2008, the performers debuted a residence show that played to sold-out audiences for a year at The Edison in downtown Los Angeles. In 2009, they created their third and largest water show, which again debuted at Coachella and also toured to Ireland for Electric Picnic.
In the fall of 2009, they moved into a new residency at Hollywood club h.wood.
In early 2010 they debuted "Android Lover" a collaboration with music producer KRADDY, founding member of the Glitch Mob, at Lucent L'Amore music festival in Los Angeles adding water and fire to reopen the show at Coachella Art and Music Festival. The show toured Europe in the summer of 2010.
In the spring of 2011 they will return to Coachella with their newest rock musical creation, SHOWACIDE. Inspired by a love letter they received from a fan who was contemplating suicide but came to a Lucent show as his last hope and was so inspired he changed his perspective and wrote to them telling them about his experience.
The critically acclaimed troupe has also performed at concerts and events in England
, Japan
, Italy
, Canada
, Guatemala
, and Mexico
. They have been featured in television commercials, print advertisements, and music video
s, in addition to their large-scale, live productions. They have performed at top clubs and corporate events throughout Los Angeles, on MTV
with Panic! at the Disco
, and at the official Grammy Award
s Party.
The troupe has been photographed for Vogue Magazine twice, once by Steven Meisel
for Italian Vogue in a feature entitled "The Greatest Show On Earth," and again in the January 2008 issue of L'Uomo Vogue (the Italian men's edition of Vogue). They were featured in the January 2010 issue of the Italian edition of Vanity Fair
.
performances and large scale fire and water shows. The troupe has performed at the following international art, music, and film festivals:
"The launch party was marked by dramatic performances by LA-California based Lucent Dossier who displayed Aerial acrobats and fire dancers."
; the video won Best Music Video of the Year at the 2006 MTV Music Awards. They also collaborated on a video, written and directed by Dream Rockwell, for "Fast Paced World" by Grammy-nominated Winnipeg band The Duhks
.
The troupe has toured nationally and internationally with Panic! at the Disco
, The Dresden Dolls
, OK Go
, Emilie Autumn
, and Mötley Crüe
with Aerosmith
.
They have also shared the stage and/or billing with The Black Eyed Peas
, KT Tunstall
, 30 Seconds to Mars
, Bassnectar
, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Kraftwerk
, The Jonas Brothers, Flaming Lips, Cyndi Lauper
, Stanton Warriors
, Devendra Banhart
, Rabbit in the Moon
, Madness
and David Guetta
.
On January 28, 2010 they appeared live with The Black Eyed Peas
at the Palladium in Los Angeles, and on February 9, 2010 they shared the stage with longtime muse Perry Farrell
. They appeared on Univision
's “Primos De Sportes” Award Show with Mexican-American singer Pee Wee
, shot at the historic Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles and nationally televised to over four million viewers. In October 2009, they opened for ska punk band Sublime
in one of their few shows with new singer Rome Ramirez
at a private event in Orange County. For New Year's Eve 2010 they opened for Michael Bolton
at a private event in Louisiana. In 2011 they created a short concert and video with KT Tunstall
and a team from Partizan Entertainment including directors SKINNY, Marc-Edouard Leon and David Hache.
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
circus
Circus
A circus is commonly a travelling company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented artists...
, electronic rock band, performance troupe and entertainment company. The company's performances combine live original music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
and vocals with circus arts, dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, aerial arts and fire performance
Fire dancing
Fire dancing is a group of performance arts or disciplines that involve manipulation of objects on fire...
.
The troupe has been described as a "high-concept, steampunk
Steampunk
Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Steampunk involves a setting where steam power is still widely used—usually Victorian era Britain or "Wild West"-era United...
-meets-neotribal performance ensemble" and its immersive spectacle
Spectacle
In general, spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates. Derived in Middle English from c. 1340 as "specially prepared or arranged display" it was borrowed from Old French spectacle, itself a reflection of the Latin spectaculum "a show" from spectare "to view,...
s as a "post-apocalyptic," "exotic wonderland". The company's headquarters are in the downtown fashion district of Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
.
Performers in Lucent's theatrical spectacles include singers, musicians, acrobat
Acrobat
Acrobat may refer to:* Acrobat, one who practises acrobaticsIn music:* "Acrobat" , from U2's album Achtung Baby* "Acrobat", a song from Maxïmo Park's album A Certain TriggerIn literature:* Acrobat, a novel by Gonzalo Lira...
s, aerial artists, stilt walkers, fire dancers, tribal belly dance
Belly dance
Belly dance or Bellydance is a "Western"-coined name for a traditional "Middle Eastern" dance, especially raqs sharqi . It is sometimes also called Middle Eastern dance or Arabic dance in the West, or by the Greco-Turkish term çiftetelli...
rs, a wide variety of other dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
rs (hip hop, burlesque
Burlesque
Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
, and Tahitian), spoken word poets
Spoken word
Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....
, clown
Clown
Clowns are comic performers stereotypically characterized by the grotesque image of the circus clown's colored wigs, stylistic makeup, outlandish costumes, unusually large footwear, and red nose, which evolved to project their actions to large audiences. Other less grotesque styles have also...
s, contortionists, elves
Elf
An elf is a being of Germanic mythology. The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine beings endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind...
, a bearded lady
Bearded Lady
A bearded lady or bearded woman is a woman who has a visible beard. These women have long been a phenomenon of legend, curiosity, ridicule, and more recently, political statement and fashion statement. A small number of women are able to grow enough facial hair to have a distinct beard...
, a snake charmer
Snake Charmer
Snake charmer can mean:*Snake charming, the practice of "hypnotizing" snakes*Snake Charmer, a 1983 album by guitarist The Edge, bassist Jah Wobble, multi-instrumentalist Holger Czukay, drummer Jaki Liebezeit, and DJ/remixer François Kevorkian...
/dancer, jugglers, and a sword swallower.
Lucent Dossier's original music style creates a "surreal soundtrack" and has its base in electronica but uses live instruments to fill out the sound that include violins, sitars, guitars, drums, bass, hung, and more.
Lucent Dossier Experience "is recognized for their interactive, surrealistic performance that breaks barriers between them and the audience".
Lucent's aerial performers use both traditional aerial apparatus such as trapeze
Trapeze
A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes or metal straps from a support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances...
, aerial silk, aerial hoop
Aerial Hoop
The aerial hoop is a circular steel apparatus suspended from the ceiling, on which circus artists may perform aerial acrobatics. The hoop sometimes has a hand loop and a bar across the top...
, span sets, aerial rope or Spanish web
Spanish web
The Spanish web is an aerial circus skill, similar in appearance and style to corde lisse. The name refers to both the apparatus and the performance....
, as well as custom-made aerial apparatus unique to the group, including a large aerial moon, bird cage, spider web, straps (similar in effect to a straitjacket), and aerial carousel.
Fire performers work with different styles of tools including fire staff, fire poi, fire fans, fire hoop, fire sword, fire knives, fire cups, fire rope, fire chains, aerial fire acts, and fire nunchaku
Nunchaku
is a traditional Okinawan weapon consisting of two sticks connected at their ends with a short chain or rope.-Etymology:The Japanese word nunchaku is the Kun'yomi reading of the Kanji term for a traditional Chinese two section staff....
.
The interactive portions of Lucent's performances include oracle
Oracle
In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination....
or tarot
Tarot
The tarot |trionfi]] and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards , used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot...
readings, rose water foot baths, gypsies offering herbal elixirs, a tribal temporary tattoo
Tattoo
A tattoo is made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoos on humans are a type of body modification, and tattoos on other animals are most commonly used for identification purposes...
parlor, a "Music Shack" where songs are custom-written, Post Portal Post Office where lost letters are delivered from other dimensions and performed on the spot for guests, and a "Transformation Station" where audience members can receive fantasy hair and makeup applications.
All the performers dress in fantastical costumes and makeup
Theatrical makeup
In the performing arts, theatrical makeup is used to assist in creating the appearance of the characters that actors portray.-Background:In Greek and Roman theatre, makeup was unnecessary. Actors wore various masks, allowing them to portray another gender, age, or entirely different likeness....
unique to Lucent Dossier. Their costuming often consists of recycled and found objects that might include the bones, wings, teeth and feathers of animals found dead either on the side of the road or in the forest. They are known for their custom body airbrush tattoo makeup, a look they originated in 2005. This tribal body art gives them their signature otherworldly, haute couture
Haute couture
Haute couture refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing. Haute couture is made to order for a specific customer, and it is usually made from high-quality, expensive fabric and sewn with extreme attention to detail and finished by the most experienced and capable seamstresses,...
look.
Company history
The self-funded troupe was initially named Lucent Dossier Vaudevillians. Later it was renamed Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Cirque, and now Lucent Dossier Experience, though they are often referred to simply as Lucent Dossier.The company is the brainchild of performer/artistic director Dream Rockwell. Lucent was a spinoff of The Do LaB, an art collective/event-creation company of which Rockwell is a founding member. Rockwell started Lucent after meeting and being inspired by Brent "Shrine" Spears (the Pasadena-based folk artist responsible for the design of the interior of the House of Blues
House of Blues
House of Blues is a chain of 13 live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues first location was in Cambridge's Harvard Square. It was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, star of The Blues Brothers...
chain and the 2008 Burning Man Temple), performer/choreographer Roger Fojas (formerly of the LA-based Dream Circus), and performer/choreographer Lisa Han. They were later joined by Dayna Riesgo as production coordinator and Dana Guidry as manager and financial officer who spent 3 years with the company and was succeeded by Mike Kaminsky. The final piece to the puzzle was finding head aerialist Alicia Schultze, who took the show off the ground and up into the air.
The Awakening
-included 21 performers and took place at the "Sea of Dreams" New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is observed annually on December 31, the final day of any given year in the Gregorian calendar. In modern societies, New Year's Eve is often celebrated at social gatherings, during which participants dance, eat, consume alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the...
party on December 31, 2004, in the historic Park Plaza Hotel
Elks Lodge No. 99 / Park Plaza Hotel
The Elk's Lodge No. 99 / Park Plaza Hotel is located at 607 Park View Street just off Wilshire Boulevard near downtown Los Angeles, California. It was created by renowned Art Deco architect Claud Beelman, during the time he was a Senior Partner at the prestigious firm he co-owned in the 1920s,...
in Los Angeles. Close to 4,000 people attended the event. The performers all dressed in white with tribal body paint, bones, feathers and Victorian lace.
EnchantSelf
-A story about a village of elves living in life-size mushrooms.
"A Horse Named Tramp"
-played only one night for Circo 6 at the historic Los Angeles Theater.
"The Forbidden Om
-designed and performed in a Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International, the high IQ society....
geodesic dome
Geodesic dome
A geodesic dome is a spherical or partial-spherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity and also distribute the stress across the structure. When...
. The show, an apocalyptic journey to another planet premiered at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a three-day annual music and arts festival, organized by Goldenvoice and held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley...
2006 before playing LIB, Electric Picnic Ireland, Serienetta Italy, Art Outside, Austin, Tx and several other dates around the world.
The F Show
-(their first fire show)
"Aquius
-(their first water show) at Coachella 2007, which subsequently toured to Lightning in a Bottle in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
, California, Summer Sonic
Summer Sonic Festival
The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two or three-days rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and Chiba. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Chiba the following day and vice versa....
in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, and Electric Picnic
Electric Picnic
The 2005 festival took place on Saturday 3 September and Sunday 4 September. It is best remembered for Arcade Fire's performance which came before their subsequent mainstream success...
in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
.
S. S. Lucent Dossier
A larger scale water show, created for Coachella; the show later toured to Lightning in a Bottle, Alive!
Optimus Alive!
Optimus Alive!, or simply Alive!, is a music and arts festival which takes place in the Algés riverside, in Oeiras, Portugal. The first edition took place in 2007. Despite its recent creation, the festival has achieved considerable popularity both inside and outside of Portugal, with the UK...
'08 in Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
where the front cover of the Portugal Expresso declared "Bob Dylan left us disillusioned, but Lucent Dossier, with their acrobatic performances, more than made up for it. Lucent Dossier have caught fire more then any other band has been capable of doing in the long menu of performances offered by the organization. Not even Rage Against The Machine, that had put the arena for bullfighting on the main stage on thursday, could come close to the collective hypnosis obtained by the group", and Electric Picnic.
In April 2008, the performers debuted a residence show that played to sold-out audiences for a year at The Edison in downtown Los Angeles. In 2009, they created their third and largest water show, which again debuted at Coachella and also toured to Ireland for Electric Picnic.
In the fall of 2009, they moved into a new residency at Hollywood club h.wood.
In early 2010 they debuted "Android Lover" a collaboration with music producer KRADDY, founding member of the Glitch Mob, at Lucent L'Amore music festival in Los Angeles adding water and fire to reopen the show at Coachella Art and Music Festival. The show toured Europe in the summer of 2010.
In the spring of 2011 they will return to Coachella with their newest rock musical creation, SHOWACIDE. Inspired by a love letter they received from a fan who was contemplating suicide but came to a Lucent show as his last hope and was so inspired he changed his perspective and wrote to them telling them about his experience.
The critically acclaimed troupe has also performed at concerts and events in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
, and Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. They have been featured in television commercials, print advertisements, and music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
s, in addition to their large-scale, live productions. They have performed at top clubs and corporate events throughout Los Angeles, on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
with Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco is an American alternative rock duo, formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005. Since its split, the band's line-up includes Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith . Former members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left the group in 2009...
, and at the official Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
s Party.
The troupe has been photographed for Vogue Magazine twice, once by Steven Meisel
Steven Meisel
Steven Meisel is an American photographer, who obtained popular acclaim with his work in US and Italian Vogue and his photographs of friend Madonna in her 1992 book Sex...
for Italian Vogue in a feature entitled "The Greatest Show On Earth," and again in the January 2008 issue of L'Uomo Vogue (the Italian men's edition of Vogue). They were featured in the January 2010 issue of the Italian edition of Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
.
Festivals
Lucent Dossier Experience is perhaps best known for its festivalFestival
A festival or gala is an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community, which centers on and celebrates some unique aspect of that community and the Festival....
performances and large scale fire and water shows. The troupe has performed at the following international art, music, and film festivals:
- 2011 - Coachella (Indio, CA), Lightning in a Bottle (Silverado, CA), Burning Man (Black Rock City, NV)
- 2010 - Coachella (Indio, CA), Lightning in a Bottle (Silverado, CA), BOOM (Portugal), 420 Festival (San Bernardino, CA), Electric Picnic (Laois, Ireland)
- 2009 - Coachella (Indio, CA), Burning Man (Black Rock City, NV), Electric Picnic (Laois, Ireland), Festival 8 with PhishPhishPhish is an American rock band noted for its musical improvisation, extended jams, and exploration of music across genres. Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 , the band's four members – Trey Anastasio , Mike Gordon , Jon Fishman , and Page McConnell Phish is an American rock band...
(Indio, CA) - 2008 - Coachella (Indio, CA), Lightning in a Bottle (Santa Barbara, CA), Alive!Optimus Alive!Optimus Alive!, or simply Alive!, is a music and arts festival which takes place in the Algés riverside, in Oeiras, Portugal. The first edition took place in 2007. Despite its recent creation, the festival has achieved considerable popularity both inside and outside of Portugal, with the UK...
(Lisbon, Portugal), Electric Picnic (Dublin, Ireland) - 2007 - Coachella (Indio, CA), Lightning in a Bottle (Santa Barbara, CA), Summer Sonic (TokyoTokyo, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, Japan), Electric Picnic (Laois, Ireland) - 2006 - CoachellaCoachella Valley Music and Arts FestivalThe Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a three-day annual music and arts festival, organized by Goldenvoice and held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley...
(IndioIndioIndio may refer to:* Indio, California* Indio, person of indigenous peoples of the Americas* The Spanish Colonial racial term for the native Austronesian peoples of the Philippines between the 16th and 19th centuriesSpecific people:...
, CA), Lightning in a Bottle (Santa Barbara, CA), LollapaloozaLollapaloozaLollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
(ChicagoChicagoChicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, IL), Burning Man (Black Rock City, NV), Electric PicnicElectric PicnicThe 2005 festival took place on Saturday 3 September and Sunday 4 September. It is best remembered for Arcade Fire's performance which came before their subsequent mainstream success...
(Laois, Ireland), Elevate Film Festival (Hollywood, CA), BURLA (BragaBragaBraga , a city in the Braga Municipality in northwestern Portugal, is the capital of the Braga District, the oldest archdiocese and the third major city of the country. Braga is the oldest Portuguese city and one of the oldest Christian cities in the World...
, Portugal) - 2005 - Lightning in a Bottle (Jack's Ranch, CA), Electric Daisy CarnivalElectric Daisy CarnivalElectric Daisy Carnival is an annual electronic dance music festival held in the South West United States on the last weekend of June. The event was held in Southern California from 1997 to 2010, and was moved to Las Vegas in 2011....
(Los Angeles, CA), Burning ManBurning ManBurning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening...
(Black Rock City, NV)
Residencies
- November 2010 - February 2011 - Club Fresh (Goa, India) - Brought neo-tribal circus to South East Asia for the first time in Lucent Dossier's history.
"The launch party was marked by dramatic performances by LA-California based Lucent Dossier who displayed Aerial acrobats and fire dancers."
- November 2009 - January 2010 - h.wood (Hollywood, CA) - During this two-month residency, Lucent reconfigured their show conceptually to transform h.wood’s labyrinth of rooms into a modern-day cabinet of curiositiesCabinet of curiositiesA cabinet of curiosities was an encyclopedic collection in Renaissance Europe of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined. They were also known by various names such as Cabinet of Wonder, and in German Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer...
with live human exotica. The residency closed with a New Year's Eve event at h.wood, Haute Cirque NYE 2010, which was named number 2 on KABC-TVKABC-TVKABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California...
's Top New Year's Eve celebrations in Southern California for the year.
- April 2008 - April 2009 - The EdisonThe EdisonThe Edison is a steampunk themed nightclub located inside the Higgins Building basement in Los Angeles, California. The Edison opened in 2007. The Higgins Building basement was Los Angeles' first ever power plant, built by Thomas Higgins...
(Los Angeles, CA) - This sold-out, year-long residency gave Lucent an opportunity to create new speakeasySpeakeasyA speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the period known as Prohibition...
style material in an immersive environment with intimate interaction between the performers and guests.
Collaborations
Lucent Dossier Experience lent their style and performers for the creation of music video “I Write Sins, Not Tragedies” with band Panic! at the DiscoPanic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco is an American alternative rock duo, formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005. Since its split, the band's line-up includes Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith . Former members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left the group in 2009...
; the video won Best Music Video of the Year at the 2006 MTV Music Awards. They also collaborated on a video, written and directed by Dream Rockwell, for "Fast Paced World" by Grammy-nominated Winnipeg band The Duhks
The Duhks
The Duhks is a band from Winnipeg, Canada.The members play a blend of Canadian soul, gospel, North American folk, Brazilian samba, old time country string band, zydeco, and Irish dance music. Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, their music draws heavily on all of the North American musical traditions,...
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The troupe has toured nationally and internationally with Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco
Panic! at the Disco is an American alternative rock duo, formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005. Since its split, the band's line-up includes Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith . Former members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left the group in 2009...
, The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2000, the group consists of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione...
, OK Go
OK Go
OK Go is a rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, USA, now residing in Los Angeles, California, USA. The band is composed of Damian Kulash , Tim Nordwind , Dan Konopka and Andy Ross , who joined them in 2005, replacing Andy Duncan...
, Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn
Emilie Autumn Liddell , better known by her stage name Emilie Autumn, is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and violinist. Autumn draws influence for her music—the style of which she has alternatively labeled as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock—from plays, novels, and history, particularly the...
, and Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981. The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, who were later joined by lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil...
with Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired many...
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They have also shared the stage and/or billing with The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...
, KT Tunstall
KT Tunstall
Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
, 30 Seconds to Mars
30 Seconds to Mars
30 Seconds to Mars is an American rock band from Los Angeles, formed in 1998. Since 2007, the band has consisted of actor Jared Leto , Shannon Leto and Tomo Miličević...
, Bassnectar
Bassnectar
Bassnectar is a freeform electronic music and dubstep artist, DJ, and producer based in Santa Cruz, California. He is known for his live performances and light shows, and actively supports the non-profit group Conscious Alliance....
, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...
, The Jonas Brothers, Flaming Lips, Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...
, Stanton Warriors
Stanton Warriors
Stanton Warriors are the breakbeat duo Dominic Butler and Mark Yardley. They are a DJ and producer team. Originally from the West Country, the pair now play sets at nightclubs such as Fabric and Ciros in the UK, and travel the globe with international work in Europe, Canada, America and Australia...
, Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...
, Rabbit in the Moon
Rabbit In the Moon
Rabbit in the Moon was an American electronic music group. Their style draws from psychedelic trance, house music and breakbeat, along with other diverse influences.-History:...
, Madness
Madness (band)
In 1979, the band recorded the Lee Thompson composition "The Prince". The song, like the band's name, paid homage to their idol, Prince Buster. The song was released through 2 Tone Records, the label of The Specials founder Jerry Dammers. The song was a surprise hit, peaking in the UK music charts...
and David Guetta
David Guetta
Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...
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On January 28, 2010 they appeared live with The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...
at the Palladium in Los Angeles, and on February 9, 2010 they shared the stage with longtime muse Perry Farrell
Perry Farrell
Perry Farrell is the frontman for the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction. Farrell created the touring festival Lollapalooza as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction in 1991; it has since evolved into an annual destination festival. Farrell continues to produce Lollapalooza with partners William...
. They appeared on Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
's “Primos De Sportes” Award Show with Mexican-American singer Pee Wee
Pee Wee (entertainer)
Irvin Salinas Mártinez better known as Pee Wee, is a Mexican American singer and actor. He is a former singer for the band Kumbia Kings and was a lead singer for Kumbia All Starz, both created by A.B. Quintanilla. In early 2008 he left Kumbia All Starz to become a solo artist...
, shot at the historic Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles and nationally televised to over four million viewers. In October 2009, they opened for ska punk band Sublime
Sublime (band)
Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...
in one of their few shows with new singer Rome Ramirez
Rome Ramirez
Roman René Ramírez , better known as Rome Ramirez or simply Rome, is an American singer and guitarist currently playing with Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson from Sublime in a new venture...
at a private event in Orange County. For New Year's Eve 2010 they opened for Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, both on his early solo albums and those recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack...
at a private event in Louisiana. In 2011 they created a short concert and video with KT Tunstall
KT Tunstall
Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist from St Andrews, Scotland. She broke into the public eye with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland...
and a team from Partizan Entertainment including directors SKINNY, Marc-Edouard Leon and David Hache.
Cuddle the World
Cuddle the World is Lucent Dossier Experience’s non-profit organization that brings interactive performance, musical instruments, clown noses, costumes, fairy wings, teddy bears and snuggle blankets to orphans around the globe. These children are in conditions where they receive very basic care but nothing more.External links
- Lucent Dossier Experience official website
- Do LaB article in LAist
- Sea of Dreams article on AnonSalon site
- Lucent Dossier Photo Gallery 2009-2011 on Phil Holland's site
- Lucent at Coachella 2009 photo gallery on Los Anjealous site
- Lucent Dossier Coachella photo gallery on ContactMusic site
- Lucent's Midnight Madness at Coachella 2009 photo gallery on LA Times site
- Interactive Lucent Panorama photo on LA Times site
- LA Times Faces in the Crowd at Coachella 2009 Roger/Be Love portrait
- Lucent Dossier Photos Codyman's Flickr photo gallery
- Coachella 2009 Photos from State of Exit blog (scroll down for Lucent Dossier pics and commentary)
- Lucent Dossier at Coachella 2009 photo gallery on China Shop Magazine site
- Behind the Scenes at Coachella 2009 blog by Roger Fojas
- LA Weekly