KINETIC LIGHT

Dance Technique Classes

Introduction to Wheelchair Technique
Come learn the fundamentals that started it all.
Audience: Anyone wanting to learn how to dance in their wheelchair; no prior dance experience necessary. 20 students max. Format: 90-120 minutes. Requires sound system and wheelchair accessible studio with professional dance floor (wood or marley – ideally sprung). Outcomes: Experience foundational ideas about the relationship of body & chair as well as principles of wheeled movement: pushing, pulling, weight shifting, balancing, turning, & other techniques that support disabled dancers in their work.

Introduction to Technique
Want to dance? Come learn some of the fundamentals of disabled movement.
Audience: Disabled artists; no prior experience required. 20 students max. Format: 90-120 minutes. Requires sound system and wheelchair accessible studio with professional dance floor (wood or marley – ideally sprung). Outcomes: Participants gain experience with some basics of dance and the specifics of moving with their particular Bodyminds.

Integrated Dance Workshop Level 1
When disabled and non-disabled movers enter the space, what can we create together? This workshop invites you to explore your body in different ways in an integrated environment.
Audience: All are welcome; no prior movement experience needed. 20 students max. Format: 90-120 minutes. Requires sound system, wheelchair accessible studio, professional dance floor (wood or marley – ideally sprung). Outcomes: Learn the basics of integrated technique through deep investigation of our own moving bodies.

Repertoire Workshops

Dance DESCENT
This repertory dance masterclass shares some of the lyrical floorwork and intricate, yet powerful, partnering work from DESCENT.
Audience: Experienced non-disabled & disabled dancers. 10-12 dancers max. Format: 90-120 minutes. Requires sound system, professional dance floor, + wheelchair accessible space. *class does not take place on ramp. Outcomes: Guided by Laurel Lawson & Alice Sheppard, discover how to embody these stunning lifts and balances in your own body.

Inside Disability Arts & Wired: For Artists and Cultural Workers
Get an insider’s view: Alice Sheppard opens up about Wired’s world by sharing bits of her research and choreographic processes, as well as secrets about the making of the work.
Audience: Disabled artists & arts cultural workers. 20-30 participants. Format: Seminar. Requires projector (in-person), ASL interpreter/CART, and describer. Outcomes: Learn the history of barbed wire and the disability and race stories intertwined with American barbed wire culture. Understand how these stories inform the making of Wired.

Disability Aesthetics

Inside Disability: for Artists and Cultural Workers
Discover intersectional disability history, aesthetics, and culture.
*Offered at all Kinetic Light performance venues
Audience: Open to all. 20-30 participants. Format: Seminar. Requires projector (in-person), ASL interpreter/CART, and describer. Outcomes: learn about current thought leaders and cutting-edge artists, develop an intersectional disability lens, and learn the differences between current best practices in the United States and United Kingdom.

Production

Introduction to Product Design
Interested in innovative product design? Laurel Lawson, CTO & head of product design at CyCore Systems, brings a practical approach to software, hardware, and program design backed by real-world implementation.
Audience: Advanced undergraduate, graduate, professional, and professional UI, product, and access engineers. Customizable level. Format: Lecture + discussion. Outcomes: Using Kinetic Light’s Audimance as an example, this talk engages user-focused design processes, research, user interface design, and product architecture.