You are a huge part of how we made it through 2020. Time and again, you showed up for us. You joined us for podcasts, online performances, and film screenings. On social media, you liked our stuff. You shared our videos and pictures. You shared the word about our events. And you showed up.
We have made it through 2020. Thank you for being there through all the disruption, pain, and fear. It has meant the world to us to know we are not alone.
It’s been a tumultuous year. In March, we installed an aerial point in a studio at Gibney in New York, thinking we would be able to rehearse Wired there throughout the year. Days later, the world shut down.
Since then, the incredible team at Kinetic Light has talked, dreamed, danced, cried, and worked our way through this year. Jerron, Laurel, and Michael are artists and visionaries. We’ve been held and supported by Candace, Dani, Jessica, Mariclare, Mikaela, Morgaine, Rachel, Sarah, Tiffany, Tim, Tramaine, and Will. We welcome Mel and Shoshana as they join us for the next stages of this journey.
I sincerely hope we never see the circumstances of 2020 ever again, but I believe in us as people. You helped make our world better.
May your time this winter bring peace, joy, and hope for the New Year.
Alice
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Image Description: A screenshot from the OSF Zoom panel. In four squares, Alice, Michael, Laurel, and Jenna have various conversing and contemplative expressions on their faces. Alice is a light-skinned multiracial Black woman with short curly hair, she wears a green jacket and sits against a white background; Michael is a white man with shoulder-length blonde hair and a beard, he sits in front of a few bookcases; Laurel is a white woman with short-cropped hair, she wears a dark shirt, a headset, and bright red lipstick; and Jenna a petite white woman with long brown hair, sitting in front of a bookshelf.
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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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