Kinetic Light

Experience the pleasure of wheeled movement

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

Join us online for the Film Premiere of DESCENT
Presented by Walker Art Center & Northrop
December 3-5, 2020
Tickets & Info; ASL/Captions/Audio Described

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 a new relationship with gravity

Wired

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

Premiering August 2020 at The Shed, NY

Development Residency: Summer 2019, New York Live Arts

Pillow Lab: Fall 2019, Jacob's Pillow

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.