Action At A Distance: Graveyards and Gardens
Thu, Mar 05
|The Stage at St. Andrew's United Church
Graveyards and Gardens is a collaborative performance installation created and performed by composer Caroline Shaw and choreographer Vanessa Goodman, examining memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events.
Time & Location
Mar 05, 2026, 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
The Stage at St. Andrew's United Church, 6036 Coburg Rd, Halifax, NS B3H 1Y9, Canada
About the Event
GRAVEYARDS AND GARDENS
Tickets through Live Art Dance: https://liveartdance.ca/action-at-a-distance/
Please choose the pricing that best suits your lifestyle!
General Seating – Adults/General $45.00; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; $65.00 Dance Advocate ($20 Donation Receipt) ; Group Discounts Available
Run Time – 55 Minutes
Content Warning: Light Strobing
Graveyards and Gardens is a collaborative performance installation conceived, created and performed by composer Caroline Shaw and choreographer Vanessa Goodman with lighting design by James Proudfoot and audio design by Eric Chad and Kate De Lorme. Co-produced by Shaw and Goodman, this new work examines memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events, embracing the various elaborations, distortions, and omissions.
Using soil as a mirror and metaphor for storing memory. A shared history by all of us. The impacts of our activity beneath our feet. Decomposition leading to regrowth and renewal. A resilience, a loop of decay and growth. Soil represents the past, present and future for our bodies.
Credits
Co-Created and Performed By
Choreographer Vanessa Goodman and Composer Caroline Shaw
Audio Design
Eric Chad
Kate De Lorme
Lighting Design
James Proudfoot
Technical & Audio Director
Jack Chipman
Stage And Costume Design
Vanessa Goodman and Caroline Shaw
Orange Cable
Ira Jordison
Co-Presented with Live Art Dance
Sponsored by Duly Noted
ACTION AT A DISTANCE
Action at a Distance, led by Artistic Director Vanessa Goodman, is a contemporary dance company located on ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Inspired by artistic collaboration across multiple disciplines, the company has been making and sharing original contemporary dance work in BC since its founding in 2015. Action at a Distance works with a mission to create immersive environments and facilitate engrossing experiences for those who engage with the work.Action at a Distance strives to create welcoming performative environments, inviting audiences and participants to have unique, nuanced experiences, whether responding purely to the aesthetics or parsing deeper underlying themes.
The company’s work has been presented in Vancouver by DanceHouse, SFU Woodwards, Music on Main, The Firehall Arts Centre, The Dance Centre, The Chutzpah! Festival and The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Presentations further afield include the Tanz Bremen (Germany), Third Angle (Portland), Brain Webb Dance (Edmonton) Fluid Festival (Calgary), Kinetic Studio (Halifax), dance: made in candal (Toronto), On the Boards (Seattle), Risk/Reward Festival (Portland), Offset Dance Fest (Brooklyn), Switch Lab (Bucharest), L1 Festival (Budapest), Estorgenuis (New York), BioFriction/ FACTT (Lisbon), The International Contemporary Dance Festival FIDCDMX (Mexico City), Tanzmesse (Düsseldorf), CINARS (Montreal) and The Bienal Internacional de Dança Do Ceará (Brazil).