Dream Rockwell

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Dream Rockwell
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Born
London
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s) Artistic director, stage director, public speaker
Known for Lucent Dossier Experience, Lightning in a Bottle, The Do LaB, music video direction

Dream Rockwell is an internationally recognised public speaker, stage director, event creator and producer. She has worked in cirque, rock music, electronic dance music shows, and concert tours. She specializes in interactive theatre as well as immersive events [1] [2] and festival production. [3]

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Past talks include TEDx Talks Vail, Leaders Causing Leaders, [4] XLive, [5] Burning Man, [1] PPTOW, Worldz, [6] Temple of Consciousness, One Love [7] and many other conferences and festivals worldwide. Her subjects have included: Unleash Your Legend, YES AND...!, The Human Uplevel, Rise of the Feminine, Grace of Venus (her forthcoming book for young women) and Unraveling the Universe ~ Keys and Codes to the Matrix. [8]

Artistic Director, Producer and CCO

Rockwell is the founder and director of Lucent Dossier Experience, a "high-concept, steampunk-meets-neotribal", [9] nouveau cirque circus troupe. [10]

Rockwell is a co-founder of The Do Lab, [11] an event production company responsible for the music festival Lightning in a Bottle which she co-founded and produced from its inception in 2004 - 2016. [12] She invited artists and guests to her highly curated stages and custom designed immersive areas making LIB the first transformational festival to emerge out of the music festival scene. [13] [14] [15] [16]

Rockwell's performance experience includes lead singer and vocals, circus arts, dance, aerial arts, fire performance, live original music, and vocals. [17] She is also a music producer.

In 2023, after being hired as an adviser to the Saudi Arabian Crown Prince for his city of the future, NEOM, Rockwell began working on a secret project in the deserts of Saudi Arabia called Karavan. [18]

Early life and career

As a young woman, Rockwell lived in New York City, where she produced Lunatic Fringe, a monthly open mic poetry slam.

She toured internationally with Madonna, helping to create some of her most iconic looks influencing millions of fans worldwide. [19]

Prior to touring with Madonna she spent 18 months as a backup singer and dancer with Shania Twain.

In the early 2000's, Rockwell formed and performed in two 60's inspired electro-pop bands, VOXBOX and Willpilot.

Launching her directing career into the spotlight, Rockwell directed the performance portions of Panic! at the Disco's VH1 award-winning video "I Write Sins not Tragedies", as well as the international sold out concert tour that followed the video's success. [4] However the band did not get the chance to thank her or almost anyone when their acceptance speech was interrupted by Kanye West, something he also did to Taylor Swift, [20] She directed The Duhks' video "Fast Paced World", [21] [22] [23] and Mötley Crüe's last world tour with Aerosmith [10]

Philanthropy

Rockwell is the founder of Cuddle the World, an organization that takes teddy bears, cuddle blankets, inspirational toys and musical instruments to needy children around the world. [24] [25]

Rockwell enjoys a plant based diet and is interested in creating a cruelty-free world. [26] [27]

Personal life

Rockwell is an adoptive parent and adopted a child in 2014.

Rockwell has been tied romantically to Elon Musk, Gerard Butler and American Soccer hero Edson Buddle and in the friend circles of Paris Hilton, and Lenny Kravitz. [28]

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