Gravity’s “(in)Visible” explores how non-sighted audiences can experience dance. Making dance performances accessible to the non-sighted is an endeavor many ballet companies have begun to embrace by offering live narration and preshow touch tours. For Jess Curtis, thinking about dance for the non-sighted is not just a challenge but also an opportunity to de-center sighted […]
Category: Dance
Alice Sheppard Dance Comes to the Bay Area
The San Francisco Chronicle had an extensive article about wheelchair user Alice Sheppard. The article announced Sheppard has been selected as a United States Artists 2019 Fellow and her newest dance performance Pas De Deux: Robots as Our Partners is at the Exploratorium, Thursday, May 16, 8:30 pm, and Saturday, May 18, 1:00 pm. […]
Two dance-related opportunities: Dance & Disability Affinity Group conference call & Research Sessions
Greetings DisArts Bay Area followers, two great opportunities related to integrated dance are happening now: 1) RSVP for the Dance & Disability Affinity Group Conference Call 2) Researchers at UC Santa Cruz are looking for participants […]
Remembering artist and dancer Lisa Buffano
As the anniversary of the death of artist and dancer Lisa Bufano is upon us, I wanted to highlight her brilliant work and her life by sharing a blog post from December 2013, written by her brother Peter Bufano, with an introduction by Andrea Shea. The post includes a Boston public radio interview from 2007 before […]
Axis Dance Report on the Future of Dance
photo description: Title page, The Future of Physically Integrated Dance in the USA showing six energetic, disabled dancers, two wheelchairs and the flatiron Oakland building at Broadway & 16th. http://www.axisdance.org/advocacy/ […]