Kinetic Light

Experience a new relationship with gravity

Two dancers in wheelchairs float parallel to the ground with arms locked around each other and footplates facing out sideways to the walls. Ropes pulled taut at a 45 degree angle connect each of them to the ceiling. Photo: Mengwen Cao

World Premiere: May 2022

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

One + One Make Three

Alice and Laurel outstretched in full horizontal flight: Alice, a multiracial Black woman with short curly hair and coffee-colored skin, and Laurel, a pale white woman with short cropped brown hair, twist and connect in a black sky. Their hands link to each other’s wrists to form a human infinity loop in midair: Laurel on her back and Alice twisting sideways. Their wheelchairs glint in the light.

ALL ARTS Online in multiply accessible versions.

Experience 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!

Experience 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)

Experience 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

Experience 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.