Podcasts about axis dance company

Founded in 1987, California-based AXIS Dance Company has long been at the forefront of redefining dance and disability. Through world-class productions that challenge perceptions, AXIS quickly established itself as one of the first contemporary dance companies to integrate disabled and non-disabled dancers. AXIS has since toured extensively, performing in over 100 cities across the US, Europe, the UAE, and Russia, while also earning nine prestigious Isadora Duncan Dance Awards.Current Artistic Director, Nadia Adame, began her international career as a disabled artist with AXIS in 2001 and has now returned to lead the company. An actress, writer, award-winning dancer, and choreographer, Nadia trained in flamenco and ballet at the Royal Conservatory of Dance and Drama in Madrid, Spain, before earning her BA in Theatre at the University of Colorado. Nadia was a company member with CandoCo, AXIS, and Compañía Y in Spain, further solidifying her reputation as a champion for inclusivity in dance. Kickstarting a brand new season and month of Dance Politics, this episode explore the mission and vision of Nadia and the pioneering work of AXIS, uncovering the potential of the dance world to embrace diversity and inclusion more fully. Join us as we foreground dance in the background!Nadia AdameAXIS Dance CompanyCandoco Dance CompanyOrigins of AXISSoundtracks:Birds - Tyler Twombly Poison Ivy Yard Work - Uncle MilkHarmony - Serge PavkinUpbeat Emotive - u_968xy4i23xSend us a text Support the showLike our offers? Visit AXIS Try Nord VPN Like what we do? Help us grow by Visiting The Background Dancer YouTube Channel Rate and review here Email me at backgrounddancer.jy@gmail.com Answer a survey Sign up here to receive future updates Leave a thought on Facebook and Instagram Join the Facebook group and introduce yourself as a member of our community

Seeking Barrier-Free Dance EducationDanceCast is a podcast that spotlights non-traditional dance artists. It is produced by Silva Laukkanen, an advocate for inclusive dance based in Austin, TX. In this episode of DanceCast, Silva Laukkanen is actually the interviewee. She is interviewed by co-worker April Sullivan and Art Spark Texas' executive director Celia Hughes. This episode is part of a series interviewing institutions with inclusive dance programs and individuals who identify as disabled and have experienced formal dance education as either students or teachers. This series is part of Silva's ongoing work as the director of Art Spark Texas' dance program and their multi-year community-engaged research project, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, that explores disability-centered accessibility in dance education and how we can create barrier-free dance education for students with disabilities in the US. Silva shares her dance history and how she was introduced to inclusive dance spaces as a young person, how the disability dance field is behind in terms of education, and how Art Spark Texas' research project is assessing what existing opportunities are out there and what more needs to be done. Silva Laukkanen is a passionate advocate for inclusive dance, aiming to broaden perceptions of who can dance and where dance happens. These questions led her to create DanceCast in 2016, a podcast spotlighting non-traditional dance artists, and to co-author Breadth of Bodies, Discussing Disability in Dance in 2022, a book featuring interviews with dance artists with disabilities globally. As Director of Integrated Dance at Art Spark Texas, Silva Laukkanen leads bi-annual intensives, performance projects, and monthly classes. In 2020, she co-founded Tractus Art with a colleague from South Africa. Together, they produce videos highlighting artists with disabilities and are working on a children's book about a dance company founder who is Deaf, set for publication later this year. Silva also collaborates with other inclusive dance companies, providing support in arts administration. Silva holds a BFA from North Karelia College and a postgraduate degree from Trinity Laban Conservatoire. A certified DanceAbility teacher since 2003, she has trained with choreographers and companies like Adam Benjamin, AXIS Dance Company, and Dancing Wheels. Currently, she is pursuing an MA in Dance: Participation, Community, Activism at the London Contemporary Dance School and serves as the board president of Kaaos Company, Finland's leading inclusive dance company.To learn more, www.artsparkdance.org.

Carina Ho is dancer and musician who performs under the moniker ONIKHO. Having trained in dance and music since childhood, Carina joined AXIS Dance Company, a physically integrated dance company that casts dancers with and without disabilities, shortly after sustaining a spinal cord injury. Over the next two years she toured the United States with them until she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, for which she relocated to Montevideo, Uruguay to teach at the national dance conservatory El SODRE. During this time, Carina also began developing her music project, which melds her influences of classical, blues, and electronic music. Today she primarily tours as a musical artist, often collaborating with other disabled artists to promote the visibility of diverse bodies in the arts.Her book, Mighty Mara introduces readers to a little girl named Mara who aspires to dance despite her disability

Building Solidarity Between the Disabled and the Left: The Good, The Bad, and The Inaccessible  We talk with two advocates about their experience working in progressive movements where disability is not the primary focus.   Maya Chupkov has worked as an organizer on issues such as affordable housing and promoting democracy.  In the past, she has experienced challenges in getting other organizers to understand her stuttering disability.   Maya Chupkov is the producer and host of the podcast “Proud Stutter”   Dr. Rowan Fairgrove (1) The Rev. Rowan Fairgrove, EP is involved with the Poor Peoples Campaign. This movement aims to unite low-income U.S. citizens to advocate for social and economic justice. Fairgrove talks about the challenges she faces as a wheelchair user at these campaign events and why it is important for alliance building between the progressive and disability communities. Announcements SF-MOMA's Raw Materials podcast is featuring Alice Wong and the Disability Visibility Podcast, including a recent interview with Wong about the partnership. ———– Accessible currency with different size notes, braille, large print denominations, and high color contrast have been implemented by over a hundred countries.  On March 10, the American Council for the Blind organized a rally outside the White House to demand accessible currency in the U.S. as the Treasury is redesigning the $20 bill to include a portrait of Harriet Tubman. —– AXIS Dance Company the troupe with both disabled and non-disabled performers is hiring a Rehearsal Director and Apprentice Dancer. Both deadlines are March 26th. Their phone number is (510) 625-0110. ——– CRIPTonite: A Drag & Burlesque Variety Show On Saturday, March 25, 5pm Pacific Daylight time is sold out in-person, but you may be able to watch it live streamed online at thedisabilitycollective.com as we celebrate the intersectionality of queer and disabled identities! ——- Thanks to Kevin Gotkin for “Crip News”, his excellent weekly roundup of disability arts and politics.  You can subscribe to Crip News at CripNews.substack.com   There is a free version. Dr. Rowan Fairgrove (2)   Maya Chupkov Produced by and Interviews by Jacob Lesner-Buxton. Voicing by Mark Romoser. Editing by Mark Romoser and Adrienne Lauby. Website and social media for Proud Stutter: Website: ProudStutter.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProudStutter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/proudstutter/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/proud-stutter YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEDPRORSa4elXrYYmYQxsdA    The post Solidarity ~ Pushing Limits, March 24, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Dr. Sarah Taylor In October, a new Center for Disability Justice Research opened with great fanfare at Cal State University – East Bay.  One of the Center's focus areas is radically inclusive dance, which was celebrated in the opening ceremony with a performance by the AXIS Dance Company and Cal State's own Wandering Ensemble. The Center has a broad purpose that includes health, equity, education and creativity. And, it's set to play a large role in the Bay Area disability community. Today, host Mark Romoser discusses the theory and activity of this new facility with three of its leaders. Our guests are the co-directors, Dr. Sarah Taylor and Shubha Kashinath, and center affiliate Dr. Eric Kupers.   The post Disability Justice Center Opens – Pushing Limits – December 2, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.

Nadia Adame is a Spanish multidisciplinary award-winning artist with a spinal cord injury and the current artistic director of AXIS Dance Company. She studied Ballet & Flamenco at the Royal Dance Conservatory of Madrid and has a BA in Theatre from the University of Colorado. She was a company member with AXIS (2001-2003) and Candoco Dance Company (2007-2008). In 2004, she co-founded and was the Co-Artistic Director of Compañía Y in Spain, a multimedia and performance collective. Nadia's credits include dance, theatre, commercial, and independent film projects in the UK, Spain, US, and Canada.@sfdancefilmfest@couellette87@axisdanceco@nadia_adamehttp://www.nadiaadame.com/This episode was recorded on the ancestral lands of the Yelamu, part of the unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. Learn more at https://native-land.ca/

Today's guest is Nadia Adame. Nadia is a Spanish multidisciplinary award-winning artist with a spinal cord injury and the Artistic Director at AXIS Dance Company. She was a company member with AXIS (2001-2003) and Candoco Dance Company (2007-2008). In 2004, she co-founded and was the Co-Artistic Director of Compañía Y in Spain, a multimedia and performance collective. Nadia's credits include dance, theatre, commercial, and independent film projects in the UK, Spain, US, and Canada. As a performer, she has been featured in works by Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Arthur Pita, Rafael Bonachela, Davis Robertson, Sonya Delwaide, Marc Brew, Chevi Muraday and Asun Noales, among others.  For more on this episode: Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast

This week, we welcome Dancing Through the Lens co-host Chris Ouellette. Chris' unique path in dance includes training at San Francisco Ballet, performing internationally with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, and acting as a company manager for AXIS Dance Company. This conversation touches on Chris' first encounter with dance film, his work with accessibility in dance spaces and how some of our audience may already have a picture with himSubscribe to SFDFFs new dance film series Encore Shorts at this link:https://sfdancefilmfest.org/2021-encore-shorts/@sfdancefilmfest@couellette87@axisdancecoThis episode was recorded on the ancestral lands of the Yelamu, part of the unceded territory of the Ramaytush Ohlone people. Learn more at https://native-land.ca/

On this episode, Steven and Yasi talk with the artistic and wellness pros behind Diablo Ballet, a professional dance company and ballet school in Walnut Creek, California. As they celebrate the end of their 28th season, we find out how they manage to keep health and wellness a priority, while maintaining artistic excellence. We also delve into the working relationships among the artistic director, principal dancers, and music composer in creating original ballets, while reflecting on staying afloat during a pandemic and handling the pressures of social media. Our guests are Dr Selina Shah MD, company physician for Diablo Ballet; Lauren Jonas, artistic director and co-founder, Diablo Ballet, Raymond Tilton, company dancer and School Principal and teacher of the Diablo Ballet School, and and Justin Levitt, award-winning music composer for the Ballet.    To learn about Diablo Ballet, go to https://diabloballet.org. Follow their Twitter at @diabloballet. For more about International Association of Dance Medicine and Science, go to https://iadms.org. For more about Athletes and the Arts, go to http://athletesandthearts.com Guest bios: Selina Shah, MD, FACP, FAMSSM is a board certified sports medicine and internal medicine physician in private practice in Walnut Creek, CA. She is the company physician for several dance companies and dance studios in the San Francisco Bay Area including Diablo Ballet, AXIS Dance Company, Contra Costa Ballet, San Francisco Ballet School, and Tiffany's Dance Academy. She is a team physician for USA Artistic Swimming, USA Weightlifting, and USA Figure Skating. She also cares for Broadway shows and Cirque du Soleil when they come to the San Francisco Bay Area. She is past Treasurer and Board Member for the IADMS and is now on the board for The Bridge Dance Project and serves on the Executive Committee for the Taskforce on Dancer Health for Dance/USA. She has lectured nationally and internationally on various dance medicine topics, has published papers in medical journals and books, including criteria on determining readiness for pointe and her original research on demographics and dance injuries in modern dance and other injury case reports. Lauren Jonas trained at the Marin Ballet. She performed with the Milwaukee Ballet, the Oakland Ballet, the Southwest Ballet, and toured the United States with the Moscow Ballet. Since Diablo Ballet's premiere in 1994, Ms. Jonas has recruited dancers from around the world to present the finest in contemporary and classical ballets. A firm believer in the need to stimulate the cultural development of future generations, she co-created the Ballet's PEEK Outreach Program in 1995. Ms. Jonas' awards include the 2005 National Philanthropy Day honor, the 2000 Arts and Culture Commission Award of Contra Costa County, and the1998 Contra Costa County Woman of Achievement Award for the Arts. She is the 2014 recipient of the Contra Costa Commission for Women Contributing to the Arts, Hall of Fame award and was an honoree at the State Assembly's Women's History Month. In 2016, Ms. Jonas was honored at the Djerassi's Women's Residency Program for empowering women as leaders in the field of ballet. She is also the Co-Founder and Director of Diablo Ballet School.  Raymond Tilton received his ballet training at San Elijo Dance Academy and San Francisco Ballet School. In 2010, he danced as an apprentice with the San Francisco Ballet and was promoted to the Company in 2011 dancing in ballets by some of today's most sought-after choreographers. Since joining Diablo Ballet in 2015, Mr. Tilton has performed the lead in numerous ballets including Christopher Wheeldon's Carousal (A Dance) and George Balanchine's Apollo. Mr. Tilton is the School Principal and teacher of Diablo Ballet School. Justin Levitt was first inspired to learn and compose for the piano at the age of 15. Since that day, he has been on an...

Your life can change in an instant. One minute you are making plans, hanging with friends, and feeling invincible. The next minute you are hit by a drunk driver and paralyzed from the waist down. This is only a part of Marc Brew's story. He would find his way back to dance and become an acclaimed international choreographer and AXIS Dance Company's Artistic Director. In this episode we talk about Marc's life before and after the accident, how his stubbornness helped him heal, using dance as a vehicle to explore his new body, and finding balance to give himself the time and space to just breathe. Please note that since the recording of this episode, it was announced that Marc would be wrapping up his time as Artistic Director of AXIS at the end of 2021 and would be returning to the UK. Check out http://www.marcbrew.com/ to learn more about him. Guest Bio: Acclaimed International choreographer and AXIS Dance Company Artistic Director Marc Brew trained as a professional dancer at the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School and The Australian Ballet School. He has been working in the UK and Internationally for over 20 years as a director, choreographer, dancer, teacher and speaker; with the Australian Ballet Company, State Theatre Ballet Company of South Africa, Infinity Dance Theatre, CandoCo Dance Company and AXIS Dance Company. Marc was Associate Director with Scottish Dance Theatre, Associate Artistic Director with Ballet Cymru in Wales and was Associate Artist in 2015 at Tramway Theatre in Glasgow. Since 2008 Marc has been dedicating time to his own choreography with Marc Brew Company and his recent choreographic commissions include San Francisco Ballet School, Dancing Wheels, Scottish Ballet, Ballet Cymru (Wales), YDance (Scotland), AXIS Dance Company (USA), Candoco Dance Company (UK), Touch Compass (NZ), Amy Seiwert's Imagery (USA) and Scottish Dance Theatre (Scotland). Marc was presented with a Centenary Medal for Outstanding Contribution as a dancer and choreographer. His work Remember When was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Performance (individual) and his recent solo work For Now, I am… was listed in the Guardians Top 10 Dance Shows for 2016. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's time to boogie down and speak up as the ladies talk about two women who refused to be forced into silence. Kelley tells the story of Hazel Scott, a musical prodigy who had the guts to stand up against the Red Scare, at the risk of her career. Then, Emily covers Cheryl Marie Wade, a disability advocate who found her voice through performing and spent her life building the framework for disability pride! Grab your pianos and get ready to rap because we're wining about herstory!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/winingaboutherstory/overview)

"Through difference, there is beauty” - Marc Brew, AXIS Dance CompanyIn this episode, our featured voices are Marc Brew the Artistic Director and Choreographer along with Danae Rees the Managing Director of AXIS Dance Company. AXIS Dance Company’s mission is to bring together both disable and non-disabled artists to create a radically inclusive dance sector and world by removing barriers and showcasing the beauty of difference. To find out more about AXIS Dance Company and their fundraising event on December 5th with the special screening of Alice in Californiland at 5pm pacific time go to axis dance dot org 

Alice SheppardAlice Sheppard took her first dance class in order to make good on a dare; she loved moving so much that she resigned her academic professorship in order to begin a career in dance. She studied ballet and modern with Kitty Lunn and made her debut with Infinity Dance Theater. After an apprenticeship, Alice joined AXIS Dance Company where she toured nationally and taught in the company’s education and outreach programs.Since becoming an independent artist, Alice has danced in projects with Ballet Cymru, GDance, and Marc Brew in the United Kingdom. In the United States, she has worked with Full Radius Dance, Marjani Forté, MBDance, Infinity Dance Theater, and Steve Paxton.As an emerging, award-winning choreographer, Alice creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Engaging with disability arts, culture and history, Alice attends to the complex intersections of disability, gender, and race by exploring the societal and cultural significance of difference. AliceSheppard.comLaurel LawsonLaurel Lawson found that dance combines her lifelong loves of athleticism and art, and began her professional career with Full Radius Dance in 2004. She has performed and taught in Atlanta and worldwide with the company. At Kinetic Light, in addition to choreographic collaboration and performance she designed and created the DESCENT costumes, designed the DESCENT wheelchairs in collaboration with Top End’s Paul Schulte, and is the product designer for AUDIMANCE, a revolutionary app centering non-visual audiences. Laurel also performs, choreographs, and teaches as an independent artist, and is the CTO and co-founder of CyCore Systems, a boutique engineering consultancy which specializes in solving novel, multi-realm problems. She is also a member of the USA Women’s Developmental Sled Hockey Team.Michael MaagMichael Maag designs at the intersection of lighting and projections for theatre, dance, musicals, opera, and in planetariums across the United States. He sculpts with light and shadow to create lighting environments that tell a story, believing that lighting in support of the performance is the key to unlocking our audience’s emotions. He has built custom optics for projections in theatres, museums and planetariums, and also designs and builds electronics and lighting for costumes and scenery. As a wheelchair user, Michael is passionate about bringing the perspective of the disabled artist to technical theatre and design. He is currently the Resident Lighting Designer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His designs have been seen on the Festival’s stages for the last 20 years, as well as at Arena Stage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, Henry Hudson Planetarium, Albany, and many other places. Michael has been a proud member of USITT since 1986.

Joel Brown is an American dancer based in London. He has toured extensively with Brown Rice Productions and AXIS Dance Company from 2011-2014 and is currently engaged with Candoco Dance Company since 2015. He has performed works by and collaborated with choreographers such as Yasmeen Godder, Arlene Phillips, Alexander Whitley, Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, Marc Brew, and others. Joel was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Performance" in 2013 and was recently awarded an "Emerging Artist" grant from Unlimited to create a new duet with himself and former Scottish Ballet principal dancer, Eve Mutso. Rachel Elderkin is a freelance dancer and dance writer based in London. Her dance writing can be also be read in the Stage, londondance.com, Exeunt and British Theatre Guide. She is a member of the UK's Critics' Circle, and has previously written for publications including Fjord Review, the Skinny (Scotland) and LeftLion (Nottingham) where she was Art Editor. Credits: Host: Rachel Elderkin Guest: Joel Brown Editing and production: George Bushaway Produced for Fjord Review

http://annettbone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Artist-1.png () Session Summary: 28 EXPLOSIVE DANCE FILMS, THEATER & ROOFTOP SCREENINGS, Q&A, HOLLYWOOD, GLOBAL BEATS by GINGEE, COCKTAILS, UMAMI BURGER, AWARDS, MIXER--If you saw this description for an event, you'd want to attend, right? I enjoyed my time at The Divulge Dancers Film Festival in November 2018 which inspired 5 essential elements to empower as an artist. http://annettbone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Divulge-2-11.17.2018-2.jpg () Empower the element of your communication skills. One thing is to work on is enunciation. I had a hard time understanding one of the dancers on Get Lite. Empower the element of possibility thinking. Put the law of attraction into play. One of the dancers did this in Get Lite because he said he was going to Paris and London to teach and it happened. Get the creativity going toward the results you want and not what you don't want. Empower adversity into an advantage. Mother's Balls featured Amber's adversity of a strict background which forced her to be creative. Empower inclusivity in dance and other art forms. Making Waves with the Down's Syndrome dancers was very heartwarming. I am also reminded of other companies that are inclusive such as Axis, Heidi Latsky, Infinite Flow and Leigh Purtill Ballet Company. Empower Other's Skill Set. I love getting around other people that are more advanced in their skill sets than I am. A great example of someone who always empowered others to be better was Gene Kelly. http://annettbone.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Divulge-2-11.17.2018-145.jpg () Links/Info from this session:http://annettbone.com (Get my FREE Audio Resource) https://www.divulgedancersfilmfestival.com/?lightbox=dataItem-jm5ogz3w (Divulge Dancers Film Festival ) http://www.axisdance.org (Axis Dance Company) http://www.heidilatskydance.org (Heidi Latsky ) http://infiniteflowdance.org (Infinite Flow Dance) http://www.leighpurtillballet.com (Leigh Purtill Ballet Company) http://annettbone.com/067 (Interview with Marisa Hamamoto) http://annettbone.com/110 (Interview with Ally Vega) http://annettbone.com/185/ (Interview with Patricia Ward Kelly) http://heididuckler.org (Heidi Duckler) Would you review The DancePreneuring Studio?I would be extremely appreciative if you would subscribe and leave your feedback on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher Radio. It really helps if you do it through the native Apple Podcast App on your smart device. Thanks so much!

What practices make the arts more or less inclusive? At Stanford Social Innovation Review’s 2018 Nonprofit Management Institute conference, leaders from three San Francisco Bay Area arts organizations discuss how they are shaping both their organizations and their performances to make them more diverse and welcoming to all. “That's the next big shift if we are to survive—to go into the community, knock down those norms, and be something that is accessible,” said panelist Tim Seelig, artistic director of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus. Nayantara Sen, manager of cultural strategies with Race Forward moderates the conversation with Seelig, Judith Smith, founder and director of AXIS Dance Company, and Sherri Young, executive director and founder of the African-American Shakespeare Company. They discuss the meaning of equity within their respective communities, learning from failures, and building sustainable partnerships. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/increasing_equity_and_inclusion_in_the_arts

Alice Sheppard from solo work Where Good Souls Fear. Photo by Lisa Niedermeyer. Alice Sheppard took her first dance class in order to make good on a dare; she loved moving so much that she resigned her academic professorship in order to begin a career in dance. She studied ballet and modern with Kitty Lunn and made her debut with Infinity Dance Theater. After an apprenticeship, Alice joined AXIS Dance Company where she toured nationally and taught in the company’s education and outreach programs. Since becoming an independent artist, Alice has danced in projects with Ballet Cymru, GDance, and Marc Brew in the United Kingdom. In the United States, she has worked with Full Radius Dance, Marjani Forté, MBDance, Infinity Dance Theater, and Steve Paxton. As an emerging, award-winning choreographer, Alice creates movement that challenges conventional understandings of disabled and dancing bodies. Engaging with disability arts, culture and history, Alice attends to the complex intersections of disability, gender, and race by exploring the societal and cultural significance of difference. Alice Sheppard as Andromeda in DESCENT by Kinetic Light. Photo by MANCC / Chris Cameron. Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson of Kinetic LIght in performance a The Whitney Museum. Photo by Filip Wolak.

1. 40 Years After Jonestown: Homecoming: Sunday, November 18, 2018, beginning at 1:45 pm Geary Blvd. & Fillmore @ 1859 Geary, the former location of People's Temple. We are joined by survivors, scholars and concerned citizen activists: Lt. Yulanda D.A. Williams, Professor James Lance Taylor. https://sfbeautiful.org/40-years-after-jonestown/ 2. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre's Playwrights Festival is Friday-Sunday, Nov. 16-18 and features: Cleavon Smith whose Vs. premiered in Berkeley, CA during the 2016-17 season at TheatreFirst. He has had short plays produced by the Utopia Theatre Project, the Best of PlayGround Festival, and the Ohlone College Playwrights Festival. Cleavon lives in Oakland and teaches English at Berkeley City College and is in his third year as the playwriting mentor for the Berkeley Rep's Young Writers of Color Collective. Visit https://www.lhtsf.org/ 3. JooWan Kim,  Ensemble Mik Nawooj & Mina Morita, Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater, join us to talk about DEATH BECOME LIFE: BANISH DARKNESS, a future vision by Crowded Fire Theater, AXIS Dance Company, Star Finch, and Ensemble Mik Nawooj With Presenting Sponsor Bayview Opera House Ruth Williams Memorial Theatre, 4705 3rd Street, San Francisco, November 16, 8:00pm, November 17, 3:00pm and 8:00pm. Ticket Price: $25. Visit www.crowdedfire.org/dbl-banish-darkness for more information and to purchase tickets. Box Office by phone (415) 523-0034 ext 1.    

Carina Ho is a survivor of a tragic car accident that killed her mother, caused her stepfather to suffer from a traumatic brain injury, and left her paralyzed from the chest down. Three years later, and wheelchair bound, our guest is a full time modern dancer at Axis Dance Company, has released her EP album Onikho, and is the most recent recipient of the Fullbright Scholarship. Several months before the accident, our guest began dating a young man whom she had met at work. Through the transition from pre accident to post accident, able bodied to disabled, our guest and her boyfriend have remained together. In our interview, Carina speaks candidly about her experience of love and sex after becoming paralyzed and how she is rediscovering her mojo. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lovelink/support

Alice Wong with the Disability Visibility ProjectTonight, during Women's History Month, we're exploring disability: We talk with Alice Wong, founder of the Disability Visibility Project, and hear some excerpts from its tremendous collection of oral histories – stories told from the lived experiences of folks from the disability community. We talk with Carina Ho, a dancer paralyzed from her chest down, who continues dancing in her wheelchair for AXIS Dance Company. And we hear from Claire Light, a writer with an invisible disability: chronic fatigue syndrome. Tonight's show includes guest producers Geraldine Ah-Sue and Lindsay Oda. Community Alert: Last week, 7 Minnesotan Khmer families, who were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this past summer, were abruptly transferred to a detention center in Arizona and are scheduled to be deported to Cambodia at the end of this month. One of them has a Stay of Removal and others have pending applications. They are currently held at the Florence State Processing Center in Arizona and could be flown away by the end of the week. Please join us on Thursday 3/23 at noon to collectively call our congress person and senators to DEMAND that these individuals are release, as well as immediately flown back to Minnesota for due process. We also want to demand that our senators and congress person haul all deportation in ALL community. Here is a script that you can use while calling: https://tinyurl.com/releasemn8 Find your US Senators: https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/ Congressional District Reps: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ While you are calling on Thursday, please use the hashtag #releaseMN8 and #not1more Community Calendar On Saturday, the New Parish in Oakland will be hosting SOFT FADE – A Queer Pop-Up Barbershop Fundraiser for Trans Youth. They'll be dancing and cutting hair all afternoon, 3 to 7 p.m! This is a 21+ event. All proceeds go to Trans Lifeline and The Time is Now: LGBTQ Youth Summit. So get your fade on and support our queer family near and far! The post APEX Express Women and Disability appeared first on KPFA.

Judith and I talk about her work in Axis Dance Company and her 10 year plan about getting the integrated dance scene together in USA.

Talking about past, present and future of Marc's artistic endeavors.

Do you like nod your head to the beat? Shake your butt? Pop and lock? Too far? Well for today’s interviewee it’s not far enough! Keon Saghari started dancing in classes at age 3 and never looked back. There have been ups and downs over the years, but she is now a core member of Axis Dance Company in Oakland, CA. She’ll tell us about what it took to get there and what her days are like now that she is living the dream.