After The Light Leaves

After the Light Leaves is an improvisational dance performance taking place at sunrise and sunset on Sunday, March 22 at Festival Beach Food Forest by Dance Waterloo.

Festival Beach Food Forest is a community-grown edible forest garden on public land—created through over a decade of collaboration to nourish, educate, and inspire. Spanning nearly 2.5 acres, it reconnects people with the land, their food, and one another through shared stewardship. This performance unfolds within that living system, celebrating a space sustained by collective care.

Performing at sunrise and sunset, the dancers explore a familiar rhythm: how life feels different depending on when we arrive. Light shifts, clocks tick, and what we notice changes with them. Morning and evening offer distinct ways of being present, each carrying its own pace and tone.

Rather than presenting a fixed story, the experience invites audiences to move through the forest together, noticing how time, light, and shared presence shape meaning. What unfolds is not something to complete or consume, but a moment within an ongoing cycle—one shaped by attention, continuity, and return.

Score Authors: Morgan Teel, Laura Merkel, Lily Kazanoff, Siobhan Klugh, Natasha Small (Fellow), and Tikiri Shapiro (Fellow).
Dancers: Laura Merkel, Lily Kazanoff, Noa Porten, Daniela Vargas Calvo, Siobhan Klugh, Marilyn Connelly, Lilly Wylde, and Anabelle Maples.

This is an invitation to gather, to notice, and to spend time in a place sustained by collective care.

Supporting Festival Beach Food Forest
At checkout, audiences may choose to add a donation to the FBFF Mitigation Fund (100% of proceeds go directly to FBFF) supporting continued care and stewardship of this space.

Access Information
Audience members will be walking and standing for the duration of this 60-minute performance. If you or anyone in your group has access needs or accommodation requests, please let us know upon checkout.

Use code LIGHT at checkout to get tickets for $15. Valid through 3/20.