www.axisdance.org

AXIS Dance Company is a contemporary repertory company whose mission is to create, support, and educate audiences about physically integrated dance. AXIS exists at the intersection of disability culture and the field of contemporary dance, having evolved with both communities in mind. Through a unique brand of collaborative processes in which dancers with and without physical disabilities create and perform as peers, AXIS has created an aesthetic that is distinctly their own. Their innovative movement vocabulary ultimately stems from a blend of corporeal abilities and possibilities. By working in this new physical language, AXIS aims to make a lasting impact on contemporary dance that broadens the perceptions of both dance and disability.

Since its inception in 1987 AXIS Dance Company has created an award-winning repertory that has featured collaborations with Bill T. Jones; Stephen Petronio; Joe Goode; Joanna Haigood; Victoria Marks; Ann Carlson; Margaret Jenkins; Sonya Delwaide; and Meredith Monk; among many, many others. Recognized for its incomparable aesthetics, AXIS has received numerous Isadora Duncan Awards and nominations.

In complement to the company’s performance roster, AXIS organizes a set of educational programs: Dance Access and Dance Access/KIDS! Their work in art education grew out of a monthly community improv/dance jam that provided a model of physical integration for both youth and adult from all ranges of mobility and ability. Now their programming equally spans a wide range of activities, including: making presentations in individual classrooms; participating in residencies at select K-12 schools to bring dance classes to children with and without disabilities; performing at school assemblies; and conducting master classes and workshops in physically integrated dance for universities, dancers, non-dancers, health and educational professionals, as well as members of the general public.