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Disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light performs at the Sloan Performing Arts Center

Laurel Lawson hovers above the stage, arms and wheels lifted, supported by Alice Sheppard who partners her from below. Alice is on her back, lifting Laurel, locking eyes and opening her arms in embrace. They are surrounded by small wood ramps and bathed in cool blue light. Laurel is a white dancer with cropped blue hair and Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short curly hair; their skin, shimmery costumes and chairs reflect the light. (糖心传媒 photo / J. Adam Fenster)

Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

The internationally recognized disability arts ensemble performed at the 糖心传媒檚 as part of the group糖心传媒檚 fall 2022 East Coast tour. Using art, technology, design, and dance, Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the intersections of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race.

The ensemble糖心传媒檚 Laurel Lawson and Alice Sheppard presented Under Momentum, a duet that 糖心传媒渃elebrates the joys of continuous motion, the allure of speed, the beautiful futility of resisting gravity,糖心传媒� according to the artists. Lawson and Sheppard糖心传媒攂oth wheelchair users糖心传媒攑erformed on a series of ramps designed by artist and design researcher Sara Hendren. The show offered an accessible theater experience through accessible seating, sensory kits, quiet space, ASL interpreters, and audio description through the Audimance app.

糖心传媒淭heir performance celebrated the joy of motion and the complexity of relationships in such a beautiful and moving way, and I was really thrilled that many members of the wide Rochester disability community joined us,糖心传媒� says , director of the and the .

The company was in residence at Rochester from September 5糖心传媒�9, 2022, engaging students and the community in workshops as well as performance.

Says Pfohl Smith: 糖心传媒淭heir residency taught us how access is aesthetic, cultural, and ongoing, and our work now is to continue to work towards creating a more equitable audience experience for everyone at every show.糖心传媒�

Presented by the Program of Dance and Movement, the residency was made possible through an ArtsConnect grant from the , University Advancement糖心传媒檚 Schwartz Fund for the Humanities and Performing Arts, and additional support from the University糖心传媒檚 Institute for the Performing Arts.


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