Kinetic Light

Alice, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short curly hair wearing shimmery deep red and Laurel, a white woman with cropped hair in gold with thick black shoulder straps, suspended in the air: arms outstretched, clasping hands. They are somehow upside down and horizontal at the same time, wheels shining and facing out; if they let go, they will swing like pendulums. Photo Robbie Sweeny

World Premiere
May 5-8, 2022
MCA Chicago

Faith, and trust, and love: Kinetic Light in process

One + One Make Three

Backlit by giant windows, Jerron and Alice are at the edge of flight. Jerron, a dark-skinned Black man with a beard and twisted black hair, tips forward onto the toes of one foot, arms extended wide from his shoulders and one leg bent behind him, cables connecting his pelvis with the ceiling. Alice appears in the foreground, a coffee-skinned multiracial Black woman with short curly hair, pitching forward - also in tension with cables from her wheelchair to the ceiling. Still from One + One Make Three/Safety Third Productions

ALL ARTS Online in multiply accessible versions.

The pleasure of wheeled movement

Descent

Venus balances on the footplate of Andromeda’s wheelchair, arms spread wide and wheels spinning. Andromeda opens her arms wide to receive her in an embrace. They make eye contact and smile. A starry sky fills the background, and moonlight glints off their rims. Photo BRITT / Jay Newman

"Most moving performance of 2018" - Dance Magazine

Watch here and on social for the next screening dates for DESCENT the film!

The joy of flight

Revel In Your Body

Laurel Lawson and Alice Sheppard fly, arms outstretched and wheels spinning, through a cloudless blue sky. Photo Safety Third Productions/Shimmy Boyle

Official Selection of Dance on Camera Festival 2019, Lincoln Center

Upcoming

• ReelAbilities, Cleveland OH (October 15, 2020)

Past

• National Dance Day at the Kennedy Center (2019)

• Dance on Camera, Lincoln Center (2019)

• EnCore Dance on Film, Decatur Arts Fest (2019)

• Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema (2019)

• National Dance Day at The Kennedy Center (2019)

• Virginia Commonwealth University*

• Gibney Beyond Accessibility Elevator Opening (2019)

• Listen to Dis’Community Arts at Culture Days - Canada (2019)*

• Women in Dance Leadership Conference (2019)

• San Francisco Dance Festival (2019)

• Cucalorus Film Fest (2019)

• Grand Parks Our LA Voices, Spring Arts Fest (2019)

Ramps as dance partners

Under Momentum

On a wooden ramp with a curved 45 degree incline, Laurel Lawson wheels uphill to come nose-to-nose with Alice Sheppard. Kneeling, Alice grabs Laurel’s frame and stops her. Photo Jacob’s Pillow/Hayim Heron

The future of audio description

Audimance

Two mobile tablets with earbuds rest side by side against an orange background. One tablet shows the access icon for audio description, and the other has an image of Venus and Andromeda and text for a sound file.