Professor Jeanine Thompson is performing The Dream Dancer at the 2017 Capital Fringe Festival. Thompson co-created the piece with long-time collaborator John Giffin, professor emeritus of dance.

"Do I know you?" a magician asks his auditioning female assistant. The answer sets off a chain of events spanning three centuries and two continents. The Dream Dance tells a time traveling tale of mystery, mesmerism, psychic revenge and women’s uprising against male patriarchal opposition. It uses movement and words to present issues of hypnotism, hysteria, magic and identity. Historical figures conjured up include Magdeleine G (who when hypnotized spontaneously danced to music), Prof. Emile Magnin (hypnotist who discovered her sleeping talent), Dr. Jean—Martin Charcot (doctor who specialized in female Hysteria at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris in the late 19th century), Augustine (one his favorite hysterical demonstrators, and Howard Thurston (American magician more famous in his day than Houdini).