About the Project

HereAfterHere is a mix of the poignant, the comic, and the chimerical. It combines our long-term use of dance, circus and visual narratives to make a mosaic of post-mortem maps. In short, a topography of Paradise.

YOU are invited to participate in this project! Click here to submit your own story. Click here to read stories that have been previously submitted.

The work, directed and choreographed by Tandy Beal, previewed late 2007 and included some stories from this website. The full show premieres October 2009 at the Mello Center.

Original music by Jon Scoville, video by Ellen Bromberg, Jess Damsen, Nada Miljkovic, Denise Gallant and Bruce Lee. Media coordination and engineering by Ben Jaffe.

The opening night will be a benefit for Hospice of Santa Cruz County. The project is funded in part by the James T. Irvine Foundation, Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, California Arts Council, and Theatre Bay Area.

Where is the hereafter located? Why is it so exclusionary? How do we get in. . . and what is the price of admission?