"Daniel expressed a keen interest in the trainees' collaborative writing efforts. He also expressed interest in Boston Common, noting that it is the first public park established in the United States. During his interactions with the trainees, he would visit the common to observe it intently. Daniel found inspiration in the area's natural beauty, architectural features, history, people, statues, and varying levels.
The concept envisioned is that they are engaging in dance at the common. Daniel posed the question: What occurs when such spaces are no longer available? How might these memories be preserved within the space?"
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The Last Garden
The Last Garden imagines a distant future where nature no longer exists, and oxygen has become sacred. What remains of the natural world survives inside one secret place — the Garden — a fragile bubble of green light and filtered air. Hidden from the outside world, it is a sanctuary where life is conserved and protected, where people come to breathe, to care, and to remember what once was.
The Garden is both real and artificial, a symbol of survival and loss. It is a safe space built out of fear — beautiful yet controlled, alive yet contained. Within it, humanity tries to recreate the feeling of connection, to preserve something that can no longer exist freely. Every breath becomes an act of devotion, every gesture an attempt to hold onto something living.
I imagine the Garden as a place where ritual replaces nature, and emotion becomes the last wild force. Inside this fragile world, people follow patterns of care and control — but small cracks begin to appear. A glance, a touch, a shared breath reveals something human and unpredictable. Even in the most artificial conditions, tenderness still finds a way to grow.
My artistic interest lies in imagining future scenarios — worlds where social and emotional relationships are reshaped by survival, technology, and belief. I use these speculative settings to reflect on the present: how we connect, how we adapt, how we care for one another when everything feels uncertain. Through The Last Garden, I want to explore the balance between protection and freedom, between the safety of isolation and the longing to feel alive.
The project is a meditation on hope, fragility, and the need to create spaces of care in a collapsing world. The Garden becomes a metaphor for humanity’s instinct to nurture — even when what we care for is only a memory. It is a vision of a future that feels both distant and familiar: a reminder that, no matter how artificial life becomes, our capacity to feel, to protect, and to imagine will always endure.
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Commissioned by Boston Dance Theater's Trainee Program Cohort.
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Dancers: Carina Pavon, Harlie Heiserman, Harper Tanguay, Gisella Paez and Liana Demers
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Premier:
Dec 12, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Mosesian Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown, MA 02472, USA
