Where: Live-stream links sent on day of performance
Tickets: $15 at showpass.com
A new piece from local choreographer Vanessa Goodman and New York-based composer Caroline Shaw, Graveyards and Gardens explores dance and sound in novel ways. The show, presented by Music on Main as a PuSh Partner presentation, and commissioned by Music on Main and the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), features Goodman performing on a set that includes plants, a turntable and tape decks, plus 400 feet of orange sound cable. We talked to the dancer about the work.
Q: You’ve worked with Caroline before, on smaller pieces here in Vancouver. How does Graveyards and Gardens resemble those previous collaborations?
Music on Main and the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival will livestream the show four times by Charlie Smith on January 21st, 2021 at 9:02 AM 1 of 4 2 of 4
Graveyards and gardens. They each connote radically different sentiments to many people.
A graveyard is a home for the dead, a barren landscape full of tombstones and crosses. A garden signifies life, providing sustenance for living, breathing human beings.
But to Pulitzer Prize–winning musician and previous Kanye West collaborator Caroline Shaw, graveyards
and gardens have been nourishing her soul for many years.
“When I was a little bit younger, I would seek out places to walk that are quiet,” Shaw tells the