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.

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.