Kel Millionie, Artistic & General Director of Daydreams + Nightmares Aerial Theatre (DNA Theatre), in collaboration with Baltimore writer Annelise Montone, presents an intriguing, dark and fantastical aerial-theatre production to Baltimore’s audiences. “The Sorrow Message” premieres April 9th - 19th, 2015 at Baltimore Theatre Project.

After witnessing his parents fighting, a young boy runs to the ocean for solace. There he discovers a message in a bottle which changes his life forever. Gathering his courage he sets out onto the ocean where he meets the Grimm who carry life from this world onto the next. Hovering in limbo between planes of good and evil, the intimate dark-fairytale explores relationships, family-dynamics, courage, death, and personal escape through aerial acrobatics, movement, music, technology, and soundscapes. Audiences will watch as a shaggy-wolf performs a staggeringly athletic act on aerial hand-straps. He then becomes the boy’s guide through this world of fantastical creatures. A team of three aerialists on triple trapeze render a bird-form to the menacing character that is Grim Beak. Several additional innovative acrobatic acts come together to tell this dynamic story in a thought-provoking new way. Creation of this work was made possible in part by a Rubys artist project grant presented to Kel Millionie from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.