where you go is back for two shows at the Dancing on the Edge Festival.

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Continuing our work with Indigenous choreographer Olivia C Davies, we return to tell more of the story of Where You Go weaving together voices, dance, lighting and costume design, to create an immersive journey through love, friendship and devotion. Davies' writes: "In a world where the only event that keeps you moving forward is the potential that you will meet your beloved once again, haunted by words said and unsaid, and by regrets and hopes unfulfilled, abandoning the struggle for power in a field of possibility after the loss, they wander here where damages are repaired, love knows no bounds and the only way to go is up. Climbing forever up towards the stars that only shine for them, falling ever so softly back to the earth to start all over again. This pair of star-crossed lovers, reunited in the Afterlife, carry forward the agreement of the heart, ’til death do us part.’"

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In a contemporary dance duet inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Vancouver's O.Dela Arts and vocal ensemble Musica Intima adapt the timeless love story in Where You Go. Singing a live score with music by David Lang, Luca Marenzio, Rebecca Dale, Jóhann Jóhannsson, the 11 person vocal ensemble accompanies dance artists Sophie Dow and Brandon Schwinn, portraying two lovers bound by the inescapable promise of death. She is bound to Him and He to Her, now and forever more. Her heart is a rose being ripped apart one petal at a time as she clings to him, even in Death. Embedded within the work is Klangenfort, a duet originally conceived and performed by choreographer, Savannah Walling, updated as an ode to the everlasting love transmuting all those left behind after Death. Key collaborators include dramaturge Raïna Von Waldenburg, original lighting design by Jono Kim, original cast of Kelly McInnes and Antonio Somera, and original concept and choreography by Olivia C. Davies.