Premiered: December 2025 at the Sir James Dunn Theatre, Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. Presented by Live Art Dance

RUN TIME: approximately 24 minutes. Solo for one dancer.

Content Warning: none

SAGA draws from the shared lore of the artists’ respective family histories and their ties to the ocean; Sharon’s being of Norse/Highlander descent and Gillian’s from a long line of Atlantic seafarers and fishermen who spent their lives on or beside the sea. The central character in SAGA is a narrative vessel embodying glimpses of those who came before her and their irreverent relations with the other world – drifting between her imagined and altered reality – navigating the sea and stars in an avalanche of fleeting forces and suppositions.

Producer/Performer: Gillian Seaward-Boone

Choreographer/Writer/Director: Sharon Moore

Rehearsal Director/Dialogue: Veronique Mackenzie

Sound Designer: Jackson Fairfax-Perry

Additional Music: Excerpts from Tristane by Oskar Schuster, Shrine Tooth and Shrine East by Forest Swords

Lighting Designer/Technician: Leigh Ann Vardy

Costume Designer: Rachael Grant

Stage Manager: Emma Lamont

Teaser Production and Photography: Kevin MacCormack

Director of Photography: Charlie Benoit 

Editor: Jeff Miller

Gillian Seaward-Boone & Sharon B. Moore

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, Arts Nova Scotia, Live Art Dance, the Diane Moore Creation Award, Halifax Dance - Artist in Residence program, and Illusion Dance Arts Studio Sponsorship