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2019 has been an outstanding year for Kinetic Light.  
  • We embarked on our first U.S. tour, performing Under Momentum in Florida and DESCENT in Georgia, North Carolina, and Vermont for the first time 
  • We received residencies at New York Live Arts and Jacob’s Pillow to develop our new work, Wired, which will premiere in 2020 
  • Alice Sheppard was honored with a Juried Bessie Award “for boldly and authentically inventing new movement vocabularies full of supercharged physicality and nuanced detail” 
  • Michael Maag’s brilliant contributions to DESCENT won a production design award and were featured at the USITT Design Expo and Prague Quadrennial
  • Laurel Lawson received one of the inaugural Dance/USA Fellowship to Artists
  • Alice and Laurel performed at the TEDWomen conference in California
  • Our work has been featured in VICE, The New York Times, Brooklyn Rail, San Francisco Chronicle, The Laura Flanders Show, Dance Magazine, and beyond
Alice Sheppard speaks at TEDWomen prior to her performance with Laurel Lawson; photo by Stacie McChesney / TED.

Image Description: Alice speaks onstage, her short, curly, copper hair, shimmery dark red sleeveless costume top, and shimmery copper-colored pants gleam in the stage lights. She is holding a presentation clicker in one hand and gesturing with the other; the photo is a close-up so we cannot see her lower legs or the bottom half of her wheelchair. She is smiling at the audience as she speaks. Behind her, almost sprouting from her wheel, is a red and blue arc of light and a huge screen. On the screen appears a rehearsal photo in which Alice and Laurel are mid-air, tethered to the ceiling by bungees. 

“Since 2015, there has been tremendous recognition of physically integrated dance companies and explosive growth in the work of independent disabled artists. Disability-related work used to be thought of as niche work primarily about the lived experience of impairment. Now the field is coming to understand disability as process, aesthetic, culture, politic, and identity, and disability arts are taking off. Because disability is generative, I know there will be more for us to learn soon and I am thrilled that Kinetic Light is part of this brilliant community.”
 
~Alice Sheppard, Artistic Director
 

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Kinetic Light is currently fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas. If you want to donate but do not want to do so online, please contact Managing Director Candace Feldman at candace@kineticlight.org. 
 
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HEADER PHOTO: Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson in Under Momentum; photo by Hayim Heron; courtesy of Jacob's Pillow.
Image description: On a wooden ramp at 45 degrees incline, Laurel, a dancer with pale skin, very short hair, and wearing a black tank top and shimmery copper colored pant, wheels up the ramp, coming nose to nose with Alice. Alice, a black woman with short curly hair, is wearing a sparkly deep red tank and shimmery copper pants. She is coming downhill on the ramp on her knees, leaning toward Laurel and holding on to her chair.

FUNDING CREDITS: DESCENT was made possible, in part, by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; General operating support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Production residency funded by New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Dance/NYC’s Disability. Dance. Artistry. Fund, made possible by the Ford Foundation with additional support provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation; and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University. Kinetic Light researched, developed, and honed DESCENT with financial, administrative, and residency support from the Dance in Process program at Gibney Dance with funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  DESCENT was also supported by Dancers’ Group’s CA$H grant program, Puffin Foundation West, Ltd., and the Yip Harburg Foundation. Production residency funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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