SFU Woodward's and Music on Main join forces to present live version of Graveyards and Gardens

In latest podcast, ArtScape’s Michael Boucher speaks to dance artist Vanessa Goodman about her celebrated creation with Caroline Shaw

SPONSORED POST BY SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs

SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs teams up with Music on Main to present Graveyards and Gardens, a collaborative performance installation by composer Caroline Shaw and choreographer Vanessa Goodman. 

This unique work of art examines memory as a process of reconstruction and will be presented at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Graveyards and Gardens is an unforgettable experience, as the venue will be transformed into a stage filled with lights, cables, plants, and turntables, creating an immersive environment of nature and technology.

“A dance. A concert. A curious analogue-driven performance experience. A visual and sonic album of reconstructed memories and distortions. Revealed in an immersive environment of nature and technology. The warm glow lure of antiquated innovations and embodied experience. It’s a living album that continues to fold and unfold into itself. Digging deep into the beauty of how the body remembers.”" - Springboard Performance artistic director Nicole Mion

The collaborative performance installation was conceived, created, and performed by Shaw and Goodman, with lighting design by James Proudfoot and audio design by Eric Chad and Kate De Lorme. Coproduced by Shaw and Goodman, the work examines memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events, embracing the various elaborations, distortions, and omissions.

Below, in the latest special edition of the ArtScape podcast, Michael Boucher from SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs speaks to Vanessa Goodman about the creation and journey of this critically lauded dance and sound installation.

Find tickets to the show, April 12 to 15 at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts here.

Post sponsored by SFU Woodward’s Cultural Programs.

ARTSCAPE · SFUW presents Vanessa Goodman, Canadian choreographer & performer, in this episode of ARTSCAPE.