First Friday: Kinetic Light Dance Performance

Please note that masking is mandatory for this performance.

Visual Description: Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson curl into themselves on the floor of a black studio. Alice lies back to the floor, legs and torso cradling Laurel who is lying on Alice’s belly and curling into a tight ball. Their eyes are closed and they are embracing a gentle moment. Alice is a multiracial black woman with coffee-colored skin and short, curly blonde hair. Laurel is a white person with short cut brown hair wearing laced ankle braces. Their metallic jumpsuits glint rainbows in the studio lighting. Photograph by Cherylynn Tsushima.

Poster House is delighted to welcome the disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light. Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson from Kinetic Light will be presenting a work-in-progress excerpt from their newest dance work, The Next T.i.M.es, and additional Kinetic Light works.

Working in the disciplines of art, technology, design, and dance, Kinetic Light creates, performs, and teaches at the nexus of access, queerness, disability, dance, and race. The company is led by disabled artists; disabled artists create, design, and perform the work. Their work speaks to and emerges from disability aesthetics and disability culture, and it is connected to the rich traditions and exciting contemporary conversations of disabled artists in all artistic fields.

Accessibility Note: This performance is expected to include ASL Interpretation from a Deaf Interpreter/Hearing Interpreter team, Assistive Listening Devices, audio description, fidgets, earplugs, expanded accessible seating including wheelchair and companion seating, chairs with backs, and stools.

Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to address any further accessibility needs. For other event related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.

Alice Sheppard (she/her) is the founder and artistic director of Kinetic Light, as well as a choreographer and dancer in the company. A Bessie award-winning choreographer, Sheppard creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies.

Laurel Lawson (flexible pronouns) is a choreographic collaborator, dancer, designer, and engineer with Kinetic Light. She is the primary costume and makeup designer and designs the wheelchairs that she and Alice use in performance. Laurel is also the product designer and lead for access, software, and access curriculum initiatives, including Kinetic Light’s signature program Access ALLways.