Graveyards and Gardens

TICKETS:

For Port Alice & Sointula: 

‍Call 1-604-970-3206 or Email: movementartsbc@gmail.com

‍$20 (adults) $10 (14 - 18) - 13 & under free

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For Powell River:

‍Call 1-604-485-2891  In Person at the Recreation Complex

‍$32 (adults) $26 (youth 18 & under single ticket or '2 for 1')

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PORT ALICE - COMMUNITY CENTRE GYM - 951 Marine Dr, Port Alice, BC V0N 2N0

THURSDAY, September 5 - @ 7:00pm

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SOINTULA - ATHLETIC HALL - 1 St, Sointula, BC V0N 1V5

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 - @ 7:30pm

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 - @ 11am

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POWELL RIVER - EVERGREEN THEATRE - 5001 Joyce Ave, Powell River, BC V8A 5R2

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 8 - @ 7:30pm

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Graveyards and Gardens is a collaborative performance installation conceived, created and performed by Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning composer, violinist, vocalist Caroline Shaw and award-winning choreographer and dancer Vanessa Goodman.

A dance. A concert. A wonderfully curious analogue-driven performance experience!

This performance is an opportunity to experience the collaborative work of two of Canada’s most celebrated performing and musical artists. Audiences will engage their senses, reflecting on the mind-body connection and the emotions that guide the relationship between the physical and spiritual.

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This exquisite work has been performed across Canada and internationally and examines memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events. It’s a beautifully performed visual and sonic “album” of reconstructed memories that continues to fold and unfold into itself live through music and dance, exploring how the cycles of mortality ensure we’ll all“return” to the earth.

“Graveyards and Gardens, a mesmerizing show featuring original choreography and dance by Vancouver's Vanessa Goodman juxtaposed with a musical story created and voiced by Grammy and Pulitzer Prize–winning musician Caroline Shaw”. Charlie Smith – The Georgia Straight

“What happens when one of Vancouver’s most exciting contemporary-dance artists joins forces with one of America’s most innovative composers? In quantifiable terms, 400 feet of orange sound cable, vintage record and cassette players, thrift-store lamps, and lush greenhouse plants. All of them create the rich physical world for their hypnotically looping new dance-music-installation called Graveyards and Gardens.” Janet Smith – Stir Vancouver

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Caroline Shaw

Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist.Caroline is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.

Caroline has written over 100 works in the last decade, for Anne Sofie von Otter, Davóne Tines, Dawn Upshaw, LA Phil, Philharmonia Baroque, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Aizuri Quartet, The Crossing, Dover Quartet, Calidore Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Miro Quartet, IGiardini, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Ariadne Greif, Britt Festival, and the Vail Dance Festival and others.  

She has worked with a rangeof artists including Rosalía, Renée Fleming, and Yo Yo Ma, and she has contributed music to films and tv series including Fleishman is in Trouble, Bombshell, Yellowjackets, Maid, Dark, and Beyonce’s Homecoming.

Vanessa Goodman holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University and is the artistic director and founder of Action at a Distance Dance Society.

Vanessa is attracted to art that has a weight and meaning beyond the purely aesthetic and uses her choreography as an opportunity to explore the human condition. Her choreographic practice is driven by weaving generative movement and audio into performative environments. Her work creates a sense of intimacy between our surroundings and the body. She has received several awards and honours, including The Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award (2013); The Yulanda M.Faris Scholarship (2017/18); The Chrystal Dance Prize (2019); The Schultz Endowment from Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2019); and the "Space to Fail" program (2019/20) in New Zealand, Australia and Vancouver. Her work has toured Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe and South America.Recent collaborations include Graveyards and Gardens with Caroline Shaw and BLOT with Romanian based dance artist Simona Deaconsecu.

Additional Information:

"Graveyards and Gardens" is a collaborative performance installation conceived, created and performed by composer Caroline Shaw andchoreographer Vanessa Goodman with lighting design by James Proudfoot and audio design by Eric Chad and Kate De Lorme. Co-produced byShaw and Goodman, this new work examines memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events, embracing variouselaborations, distortions, and omissions. A dance. A concert. A curious analogue-driven performance experience. A visual and sonic album ofreconstructed memories and distortions. Revealed in an immersive environment of nature and technology. The warm glow lure of antiquatedinnovations and embodied experience. It’s a living album that continues to fold and unfold into itself. Digging deep into the beauty of how the bodyremembers. 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.

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(BCMAS) is thrilled to continue the North Island Contemporary Dance Series featuring Canadian and international dance artists and multi-week artist residencies. For the 2023/2024 season we are continuing to expand our annual series by featuring diverse and acclaimed dance artists and multi-week dance creation residencies.

BC Movement Arts Society is grateful for the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Canadian Heritage, Province of British Columbia, and the BC Touring Council.

This Season, we are proud to be part of the  Business of the Arts’ ArtsVest Program and are thankful for its matching funds to help us bring arts and cultural programming to rural and remote communities.  

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