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Experience the joy of flight with Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson.

Kinetic Light’s stunning choreography leaps in glorious slow motion into the site-specific playgrounds of concrete ramps, metal railings, stairs, and breathtaking open blue sky, revealing the joy of flight on wheels.

Directed by Katherine Helen Fisher, 6 min

Access: CC and AD

Find the film trailer at the bottom of this page.

The film proceeds a free virtual workshop hosted by Kinetic Light dance company on March 10th: Meeting Intersectional Disability Aesthetics, Politics, and Culture presented by Kinetic Light's dancer and artistic director, Alice Sheppard.

--About the virtual Workshop--

The newly re-emerging disability arts movement affirms that disability is more than the medicalized understanding of impairment as a deficit. This talk places creative access and intersectional disability aesthetics, culture, and politics at the heart of the creative process. Come meet Kinetic Light.

Alice Sheppard is an emerging and Bessie award-winning choreographer, Sheppard creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Engaging disability arts, culture, and history, she is intrigued by the intersections of disability, gender, and race. In addition to performance and choreography,Sheppard is a sought-after speaker and has lectured on topics related to disability arts, race and dance. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and in academic journals.