Dance Waterloo

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.

Amplify Austin has officially wrapped. We did it, y’all 🎊

To our donors:
Thank you for believing in Dance Waterloo and investing in creative spaces that bring people together through movement.

To our artists and collaborators:
Thank you for the imagination, care, and dedication you bring to this work — in studios, classrooms, and community spaces across Austin.

To our community:
Thank you for watching, sharing, encouraging, and showing up. Your support makes it possible for this work to grow.

Amplify Austin is never the work of one person. It happens when artists, neighbors, and supporters each contribute their piece.

Together, you helped strengthen the foundation that allows Dance Waterloo to keep creating, teaching, and building community through dance.

We’re grateful to build this with you. 💛

$1,042 to go. 9 hours left.

A strong community doesn’t appear by accident. It’s built intentionally — by people who decide that the spaces we gather, create, and care for together are worth protecting.
Dance Waterloo exists because people believe Austin should be a city where creativity and community belong to everyone. Every rehearsal, class, and performance happens because individuals step forward and say: this matters.

Today we’re in the final stretch.

$1,042 stands between us and our Amplify Austin goal.

If Dance Waterloo has ever made you proud of this city, curious about dance, or reminded you how powerful community can be, this is the moment to help carry the work forward.

Give before the clock runs out.

Share the campaign with someone who believes in the arts.

Help us finish strong.

Let’s build this together.

Rehearsing outside helps me connect to the site immediately and make movement choices based on practicality and impulse as opposed to what something looks like in a mirror. It’s freeing, grounding, and joyful! -

See Laura dance and author part of AFTER THE LIGHT LEAVES.
Sunday, March 8 only
sunrise + sunset only
Link in our bio for more details 🌳

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I noticed the natural structures and pathways that nature provided and asked the dancers to generate phrases that would encourage them to weave in and out of these spaces. -

See what Natasha creates in just a few weeks.

AFTER THE LIGHT LEAVES
March 8 only at
sunrise + sunset shows
Visit the link in our bio for more information.
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I left my first After the Light Leaves rehearsal feeling my sense of play in nature had been accessed and my imagination ignited. -

AFTER THE LIGHT LEAVES
Sunday, March 8 only
sunrise + sunset show options


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Dance Waterloo invites you to After the Light Leaves — an improvisational dance performance unfolding at sunrise and sunset on March 8 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, Tikiri Shapiro, .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.

🎟 Use code LIGHT for $15 tickets (valid through 2/26).

✨ In 2017, we held our first Wordplay LIVE! at Buzzmill. (Back then we actually called it Words With Waterloo). What began as a simple experiment has become something we return to again and again: a performance shaped by intuition, emotion, and the words you offer us. 💌

Each year feels like a love letter to connection. We listen, we respond, and we create something honest in the moment … movement, music, and visual art guided by curiosity and care. 🕊️💬

💛 Today is the LAST day to get tickets for only $8 with code WATERLOO.

🎟 Join us in person at

🌍 Or online via livestream, where you can submit words + receive the artwork by mail.

Wherever you are, you’re part of the story.

Here’s to the next chapter of Wordplay LIVE! 🥂✨

✨ Wordplay LIVE! returns December 3!

Step into an evening where movement, music, and visual art grow from one simple spark: a word offered by you. Like ideas passed between friends, your words become playful invitations, and we follow them with curiosity, generosity, and surprise. 🌱💬

✨ Featuring
Dancers: .regards .rose.artwork
Music:
Live Art:

🎟 Tickets are LIVE! Use code WATERLOO for $8 tickets through Nov. 23

🐾 Dogs welcome

🎨 In-person attendees take home the artwork created during the show

🌍 Virtual attendees watch via livestream + receive artwork by mail

💛 Presented in collaboration with

Supported by the Elevate Program (Austin Arts, Culture, Music & Entertainment) and The Creative Fund

Let’s create something we’ll want to remember. 🌼

When we think of Austin summers, we think of Zilker … the sky turning gold, the air softening into evening. This September, that magic becomes the stage for Quixotic States, a free outdoor performance of dance + sound.

✨ Sept 19–21 at 6:30 pm
📍 Zilker Hillside Theater
🎟 Free + open to all (ticket link in bio — seating is limited!)

Come slow down with us, notice the moment, and make a memory together at sunset. 🌅

Produced by:

Choreographed by: .ellis3

Performed by: .ellis3 .rose.artwork 

Sound Bath by:

This project is supported in part by the .