NASHVILLE ||
OCTOBER 20, 2016
FR: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG/VANESSA LOVETT
MSO PR
LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE
RETURNS TO DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES AS LUCENT ENCHANTMENT SOCIETY RESIDENCY LAUNCHES THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22
AT CLIFTON‘S TICKETS FOR
OCTOBER 29 HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR
ON SALE NOW
  Halloween 1935 is near, and the veil between this world and the next is thin. Take your place beside oracles, snake charmers, contortionists, and fire eaters to witness and behold the haunted mystery of Clifton’s Lucent Enchantment Society. LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE–the world-renowned, innovative performance collective that embellishes original music with powerful dancers, breathtaking aerial artists and stunning fire shows-return to downtown Los Angeles to launch their brand new residency show at the historic multi-level restaurant and bar Clifton’s (www.cliftonsla.com; 648 S. Broadway, Los Angeles)
The Lucent Enchantment Society launches this Saturday, October 22 with a soft speakeasy style opening that’s free to the public with a secret password. The full show officially kicks off Halloween weekend on Saturday, October 29 and then moves to every other Thursday, beginning November 10 to coincide with downtown’s popular Art Walk. (November 24’s Thanksgiving date will be moved to November 23). Tickets for Halloween weekend are on sale HERE, with unique experiential packages offered.
Expect walking into a fully immersive world set in 1930’s and 40’s Los Angeles but with a romantic spin. Clifton’s will be transformed as 20 LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE aerialists, contortionists and performers will create “a world within a world” of magic, mystery and charm.
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.
“The Lucent Dossier Experience is unlike any other night of entertainment. It is very much theatre, but also part concert, acrobats, circus, dance performance, and opera. It’s a blend of all these things, but a truly unique experience. The music is hot, the costumes are elaborate, and the energy is electric,” shared LAist (11/2/11). The Edison residency brought visitors to an”underworld that spans 10,000 square feet and instantly catapults you back in time, landing you somewhere between the Victorian era and Prohibition,” finding themselves in a hybrid fantasy world where “…bygone-era outfits are paired with futuristic makeup designs painted on faces and bodies,” noted the Advocate.com (12/11/08). At Clifton’s, the Lucent Enchantment Society will transport us all to a new timeless dimension where senses are fully heightened and new possibilities explored.
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:
“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
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For more information on LUCENT DOSSIER EXPERIENCE, contact: MSO PR 818 380 0400 Alexandra Greenberg x223, agreenberg@msopr.com Vanessa Lovett x231, vlovett@msopr.com |
