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Introducing this year’s “Coastal Currents” artists! Each year Live Art Dance and Kinetic celebrate Atlantic dance creators through the sharing of a mixed billed of dynamic dance works. This year’s show ranges from athletic to quietly retrospective, and from grounded to gravity-defying – it’s an eclectic programme with something for everyone! Silhousoniques D’eux - Dawn Shepherd & Ryan Gray (NS) Physical Insanity - Hiroto Yamaguchi (NB) Exodus: Migration Psalm - Jalianne Li & Harriet Gratian (NB) The Bones We Live In - Meredith Kalaman (NS) Archive of Loneliness - Sara Coffin (NS) COASTAL CURRENTS 📅 May 15 & 16, 2026 | 7:30PM 📍Sir James Dunn Theatre 🎟️ General Seating – $65.00 Dance Advocate; $45.00 Adults; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; Group Discounts Available ⏱️ Run Time – TBD ⚠️Content Warning: Mature Sexual Themes, Partial Disrobing Occurs (No Full Nudity), Expressions or Depictions of Violence. Co-Presented with Kinetic (@kineticstudiodance) COASTAL CURRENTS! ✨ Coastal Currents is a chance to experience compelling new work and connect with the rich artistic landscape growing right here at home. Join us in celebrating the artists who make our community shine. “We celebrate and amplify dance and movement artists from across Mi’kma’ki and the Atlantic region through this important platform. It brings us fulfillment knowing this platform exists for artists to grow, develop and showcase their work.” Kay Macdonald, Co-Artistic Director, Kinetic Tickets are on sale now! Link in bio 🔗 We bring DANCE to life! ✨ -- @breakingcircus @piroto618 @jlidance @motherg7 @saracoffin @dance_nova_scotia @halifaxdance @artsnovascotia @creative.pei @artsnb @artslinknb @artsculturenb @dancenlonline @neighbourhooddanceworks @cada_east @hfxnoise @thecoasthalifax @2btheatre @discoverhalifax @halifaxpresents @support4culture @eastcoastcreatives @cbc_eastcoast @cbcns @ctvatlantic @ctvmorningliveatlantic

GRAVEYARDS AND GARDENS with Action at a Distance STARTS TONIGHT!✨ 📅 March 5, 6 & 7, 2026 | 7:30PM 📍The Stage at St. Andrew's United Church 🎟️ General Seating – $65.00 Dance Advocate; $45.00 Adults; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; Group Discounts Available ⏱️ Run Time – 55 Minutes, No Intermission ⚠️Content Warning: Light Strobing Co-Presented with @suddenlyLISTEN Sponsored by Duly Noted (@dulynotedstationery) Graveyards and Gardens is a collaborative performance installation conceived, created and performed by composer Caroline Shaw and choreographer Vanessa Goodman with lighting design by James Proudfoot and audio design by Eric Chad and Kate De Lorme. Coproduced by Shaw and Goodman, this new work examines memory as a process of reconstruction rather than an exact recall of fixed events, embracing the various elaborations, distortions, and omissions. Using soil as a mirror and metaphor for storing memory. A shared history by all of us. The impacts of our activity beneath our feet. Decomposition leading to regrowth and renewal. A resilience, a loop of decay and growth. Soil represents the past, present and future for our bodies. ‼️ This is definitely one not to be missed. Tickets are limited – get yours today! Tickets are ON SALE NOW! Link in bio 🔗 We bring DANCE to life! ✨ -- @actionatadistance @dance_nova_scotia @halifaxdance @houseofeights @artsnovascotia @creative.pei @artsnb @artslinknb @artsculturenb @dancenlonline @neighbourhooddanceworks @cada_east @hfxnoise @thecoasthalifax @2btheatre @votivedance@moceandance @discoverhalifax @halifaxpresents @support4culture @eastcoastcreatives @cbc_eastcoast @cbcns @cbcmaritimenoon @mainstreethfx @ctvatlantic @ctvmorningliveatlantic

ARTIST TALK BACK: Composing Graveyards and Gardens with Vanessa Goodman and Caroline Shaw✨ Saturday March 7 | 1:30-3:00 PM Location: Halifax Central Library Room 301 In this in-depth artist talk, Vanessa Goodman and Caroline Shaw reflect on the making of their co-authored interdisciplinary work Graveyards and Gardens — a collaboration that bridges contemporary choreography and musical composition through a shared language of structure, listening, and transformation. The conversation centers on how Graveyards and Gardens was built as a true co-creation: not choreography set to music, nor music composed for dance, but an evolving system where sound and movement were composed in tandem. Goodman and Shaw discuss how the work emerged through reciprocal exchange — scores written in response to physical tasks, movement phrases shaped by musical architecture, and moments of silence or suspension that allowed both forms to breathe. They will unpack how the title itself reflects the work’s compositional ethos: graveyards as sites of memory, accumulation, and residue; gardens as spaces of growth, cultivation, and renewal. The artists explore how these metaphors informed the structure of the piece — layering repetition, decay, harmony, rupture, and regeneration into both the choreographic and sonic landscapes. More info at https://liveartdance.ca/ GRAVEYARDS AND GARDENS 📅 March 5, 6 & 7, 2026 | 7:30PM 📍The Stage at St. Andrew's United Church 🎟️ General Seating – $65.00 Dance Advocate; $45.00 Adults; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; Group Discounts Available ⏱️ Run Time – 55 Minutes, No Intermission ⚠️Content Warning: Light Strobing Co-Presented with suddenlyLISTEN (@suddenlyLISTEN) Sponsored by Duly Noted (@dulynotedstationery) ‼️ This is definitely one not to be missed. Tickets are limited – get yours today! Tickets are ON SALE NOW! Link in Bio 🔗 We bring DANCE to life! ✨ -- @actionatadistance @dance_nova_scotia @halifaxdance @artsnovascotia @cada_east @hfxnoise @thecoasthalifax @discoverhalifax @halifaxpresents @eastcoastcreatives