03/07/2026
We rescheduled AFTER THE LIGHT LEAVES due to the weather this weekend. Join us now on March 22! 🎟 Use code CARE for $9 tickets (valid through 3/11).
Dance Waterloo invites you to After the Light Leaves — an improvisational dance performance unfolding at sunrise and sunset on March 22 at Festival Beach Food Forest.
is a community-grown edible forest garden on public land, cultivated 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 — and this performance takes place inside that living system.
Performing at sunrise and sunset, dancers explore a familiar rhythm: how life feels different depending on when we arrive. Light shifts, clocks tick, and attention moves with them. Morning and evening carry distinct ways of being present, each with its own pace and tone. Rather than a fixed story, audiences are invited to move through the forest together — noticing how time, light, and shared presence shape meaning.
✨ Score Authors: (Fellow) (Fellow)
✨ Dancers: Laura Merkel, Lily Kazanoff, .regards .magic.penny
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 add a donation to the FBFF Mitigation Fund — 100% goes directly toward continued care and stewardship of the 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 at checkout.
