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It’s finally here! We have been working so hard to create our DESCENT film. What a journey it has been: from three friends who wanted to create magic and get it on stage to an accessible dance film we can now share with our community all over the globe.
We are grateful for everyone who has made this possible: the presenters Walker Art Center and Northrop, at University of Minnesota, the folks at the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center where we had our five-camera performance shoot, our many film collaborators, the organizations that funded this project, the entire Kinetic Light team, and many, many other people.
We feel your love and support. We hope you will join us.
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ARTIST TALK:
DISABILITY AESTHETICS FOR DESIGN IN PERFORMANCE (FREE)
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Featuring Michael Maag and Laurel Lawson
Wednesday, December 2, 3pm CST
Access: ASL + CART + Audio Description
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DESCENT FILM PREMIERE
(TICKETED)
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Performed on a custom-designed architectural ramp installation with hills, curves, and peaks, DESCENT explores the pleasures of wheeled movement and reckless abandon.
Premiere Thursday, December 3, 8pm CST
(artist conversation to follow, 9:15pm CST)
Film available through December 5
Access: Captions + two versions of Audio Description for DESCENT film and CART + ASL for artist conversation
Tickets: $18.50 per household/$10 students
(if you want to experience DESCENT but finances are a barrier, please reach out info@kineticlight.org)
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Image Description: Photos of Shaina and Andy in a purple starry graphic with white diagonal lines. A young woman’s face is shown, she has long black hair, tan skin, and smiles looking off to the left of the camera. She wears a red top with gold embroidery and gold earrings. A white man with a large red beard, large sunglasses, and green sweater aims a recording device towards the sun; photo by Charlie Semokiatis.
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We worked with some fantastic new collaborators to make the DESCENT film a reality. Shaina Ghuraya joined us as our editor and Andy Slater created the audio description sound design and mix. Shaina is a graduate student in the University of Southern California’s Master of Fine Arts program in Film and Television production and Andy is a Chicago-based media artist and disability advocate as well as the founder of the SoVISA. We were thrilled to work with these disabled artists; they helped to make the DESCENT film a totally new piece of accessible art. Thank you Shaina and Andy!
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Kinetic Light will host our first ALLways access workshop on December 9, 2020. ALLways programming comes from our research and experimentation, our constant engagement with equitable artistic experiences and community-grounded accessibility, and our ongoing advocacy inside and outside the arts field.
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Led by Laurel Lawson, this 3-hour class will be tailored to arts organizations who have newbie to intermediate experience with access. We will explore specific techniques you can use to apply equity and hospitality principles to your events and marketing/communications efforts.
Registration fees are on a sliding scale based on organization operating budget and ASL/CART/AD will be provided. Future ALLways workshops will focus on art-makers and independent creators. Questions? Email laurel@kineticlight.org.
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Image Description: A tight grid of 20 black and white icons representing both various modes of disability and types of access, including figures in wheelchairs and with canes, low vision and nonsighted, Deaf, medical, allergy, neurodiversity, and AD/CC/?/signing/toilet access icons. Bold text across the top reads ALLways
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Founded by Alice Sheppard in 2016, Kinetic Light is a project-based ensemble, working at the intersections of disability, dance, design, identity, and technology. Through nuanced investment in the histories, cultures, and artistic work of disabled people and people of color, we promote intersectional disability as a creative force and access as an aesthetic critical to creating transformative art and advancing the disability arts movement. Kinetic Light artists include Alice Sheppard, Laurel Lawson, Michael Maag, and Jerron Herman. For more info: https://kineticlight.org
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