NASHVILLE ||
DECEMBER 12, 2016
FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG
MSO PR
LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE
RESIDENCY AT CLIFTON’S REPUBLIC IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES LUCENT ENCHANTMENT SOCIETY
ANNOUNCES DECEMBER 29 FOR NEXT DATE
 On Thursday, December 29 LUCENT ENCHANTMENT SOCIETY will return to the incredible Clifton’s Republic (www.cliftonsla.com; 648 S. Broadway, Los Angeles). Take a step back into 1935 and prepare to immerse yourself in their world between worlds. The venue is transformed with 20 LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE aerialists, contortionists, singers, dancers and service stations.
Let curiosity take the lead and explore all the nooks and crannies of Clifton’s Republic. Magic and mayhem swirls all around with dancers, contortionists, snake charmers and high flying aerialists. Lucent’s Siren Sisters await your arrival, ready to wash your dirty hands and cleanse your spirit! Elixir Man is ready to cure whatever ales you! Other unique service stations are hidden in the shadows, waiting for guests to adventure and discover. Characters climb and perform throughout the majestic indoor tree throughout the evening. Mixologists concoct special libations and DJs play a variety of electro-swing music throughout the night, sure to keep booties shaking.
LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE last held a downtown Los Angeles residency at the Edison in 2008 and 2009. Blurring the boundaries of fantasy and reality, the troupe of “fire dancers, aerial silk performers, belly dancers, contortionists, burlesque girls and daring ‘actors’…some of whom hang from the rafters inside the bar and mingle with the patrons” (Los Angeles Times, 7/14/08) truly birthed a new form of interactive performance that creatively breaks down the fourth wall between performer and audiences. So many nightclubs have endeavored to emulate the formula but haven’t captured the experience quite like Lucent.
Earlier this year, LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE debuted a new 3D Live, augmented reality performance to a massive Coachella crowd with closing sets at the Sahara Tent on both Friday’s (April 15 & 22) of the two-weekend-long event to high-acclaim. LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE continued with their Lightning in a Bottle extravaganza–a combination of new performances and original ones, with only a few seen at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, returning to the original 2D format. The collective also brought their festival show to Hollywood’s Avalon nightclub.
 Additional critical praise for LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE:
“It’s a twisted experience with a nod to the Victorian era and Burning Man. It’s Marie Antoinette gone wrong, Cirque Du Soleil on acid, but also the best thing that ever happened to L.A.”
-BlackBook
“Imagine if Cirque du Soleil embraced an underworld where abundant sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll reigned…”
—Los Angeles Times
“Greatest show on Earth”
~VOGUE
“Lucent Dossier is spinning a dream. Spin that web around us, too.”
~NBC News
“The best I can do to describe Lucent Dossier is to say if all of the paintings of Dali came to life…”
~The Huffington Post
“The stilt walking, fire breathing, unicycling Lucent Dossier… a burst of energy and tension…risque”
~SPIN
“…..At a Lucent Dossier show you experience a world that doesn’t exist, a place where the future and the past happen simultaneously, as if under some metaphorical big top in a David Lynch dream sequence.”
~LA Weekly
 ABOUT CLIFTON’S:
Proprietor Andrew Meieran purchased the fabled Clifton’s eatery in 2010, and spent nearly five years renovating the six story space, originally opened in 1935, into a modern day Cabinet of Curiosities. Re-opened in 2015, the collection of imaginative venues, rooted in the main floor marketplace and dining room, offers a wild ride through history-real and imagined-for an immersive and truly distinct hospitality experience. Aiding Downtown L.A.’s culinary, cultural, and theatrical renaissance, Clifton’s celebrates California’s natural and intellectual magnificence while continuing the venue’s legacy of social commitment, activism, education, and innovation. Six distinct and truly transportive escapes nourish the body, soul, spirit, and imagination while inviting guests to become lost among Clifton’s whimsical love letter to California and its magic.
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For more information on LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE, contact: MSO PR 818 380 0400 Alexandra Greenberg x223, agreenberg@msopr.com |
