Graveyards and Gardens

Music on Main and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents:
Graveyards and Gardens
World Premiere Livestream
January 28 & 29, 2021
4:30PM (PST) | 7:30 PM (PST)

On January 28 & 29, 2021, Music on Main hosts the World Premiere Livestream of Graveyards and Gardens, co-created and co-produced by Caroline Shaw (composer & recorded sound) and Vanessa Goodman (choreographer). This livestream is a PuSh Festival Partner Presentation.

Caroline Shaw, 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music winner, was Music on Main’s Composer in Residence from 2015-2016, where she shared insight, ideas, and beautiful music with audiences, forming a deep relationship with Vancouver. Vanessa Goodman is the Artistic Director of Action at a Distance Dance Society where she uses her choreography as an opportunity to explore the human condition. In 2016, Caroline (voice) and Vanessa (dance) performed a captivating improvisation presented by Music on Main & Dances for a Small Stage. Now in 2021, these two exceptional artists come together again and with a new work, Graveyards and Gardens.

The performance takes place among 400 feet of orange sound cables and an arrangement of plants—nature and technology being another synthesis the artists explore. Things begin with a long passage featuring an array of sounds—some come from tape decks, some from a record player, some from old Edison wax recordings. What these two artists make will live on, and this live-streamed genesis is, among other things, a powerful display of the creative process.

Caroline and Vanessa are presenting Graveyards and Gardens specifically for online audiences. The four livestream performances will give audiences a chance to witness a visual and sonic album emerge before their eyes and ears; the artists create new ways of interacting with sounds, and bodies, to shape an analog experience that washes over the senses. Watch the entrancing trailer here. 

Read more about what to expect when you virtually attend the World Premiere Livestream of Graveyards and Gardens. Tickets are on sale now. 

Caroline Shaw, Creator & Performer

Vanessa Goodman, Creator & Performer

James Proudfoot, Lighting Designer

Kate de Lorme & Eric Chad, Sound Designers

Taylor Janzen, Production Manager

Graveyards and Gardens is co-produced by Vanessa Goodman & Caroline Shaw.
Presented by Music on Main and PuSh International Performings Arts Festival.
Co-commissioning partners Music on Main and EMPAC.
Created with the generous support from The Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, Lena, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Action at a Distance, SFU Woodwards, The Scotiabank Dance Centre, and CCOV.

This co-presentation has received generous support from the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association.
This co-presentation has been generously supported by Jim and Lisa Peers and an anonymous sponsor.

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