Based upon the poem by Lewis Carroll, Dreamland is a piece of intermedia bringing together several artistic disciplines into an atmospheric whole. The dance depicts a man struggling through a personal battle between dark and light, optimism and cynicism, and trying to balance the polar opposite mindsets that can plague people in a troubling world.
In an artistic game of pass-the-parcel, director Max Rothman gave Rob the dramatic reading of the poem and asked him to compose a musical soundscape to fit around it. The music and narration was then, in turn, interpreted by dancer Paul Vickers, with his haunting performance shot in a long single take by cinematographer John Sears at 1896 Studio, New York.