Sleepdancing II: The Open Palm is the second chapter of an ongoing series of collaborative performance projects between Max Levy Choreographic Works and digital art duo Cosa Mentale building an atmospheric experience where performers, motion-capture, and music coalesce in an unique environment between meditation, relaxation and sleep. While the first chapter Are e Luar brought dance through film into the privacy of the bedroom, blurring the lines between reality and the dream world as much as those between dance and film, this second installment takes a different approach.

In The Open Palm, the concept is brought into a public frame, where sleep becomes a collective act, and the performance facilitates sharing of space and time through rest. In the unique installation space of saasfee*pavillon, The Open Palm not only builds on the unique aesthetics of the original, but expands the concept into an atmospheric experience where performers, motion capture and music create a unique environment of relaxation over hours, culminating in the audience spending the night in the pavillon.