Kinetic Light's founder and artist lead, Alice Sheppard, saw Homer Avila, a disabled dancer, perform in 2004. Avila dared her to take a dance class. She did. She loved moving so much, she resigned her ...

Alice Sheppard does not shy away from a challenge. In devising her latest dance, “Wired,” she and her Bay Area disability arts company Kinetic Light had to first write the rule books for wheelchair ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by For the arts ensemble Kinetic Light, the needs of disabled people are sources of inspiration and innovation. By Margaret Fuhrer Two dancers are ...

Kinetic Light dance company works at the intersection of disability and dance. Wheelchairs, ramps and lifts take dancers to new heights as they raise the bar for what it means to represent disability ...

The renowned disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light announces its Fall 2019 tour, including the evening-length work DESCENT at the Flynn Center in Burlington, VT, Wilson Center in Wilmington, NC, and ...

On Saturday, a Lied Center for Performing Arts audience will encounter Laurel Lawson and Alice Sheppard in their wheelchairs, performing "Descent" on a custom-designed architectural ramp. Those ...

Kinetic Light dancer Laurel Lawson arches her back off the floor as Alice Sheppard, with her knees in Laurel’s footplate, crawls on her forearms, creating an optical illusion. Hayim Heron Courtesy of ...

Disability arts collective Kinetic Light presented “Descent” to a disability audience at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, delivering a moving, mesmerizing modern dance performance of ...