Kinetic Light is an “internationally recognized disability arts ensemble 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.”
Inspired by the sensual writings and art of French sculptor Auguste Rodin, DESCENT gives the mythological characters of Venus and Andromeda new life as interracial lovers. The sensuality of this work is palpable, and risk is interwoven throughout as wheelchair wheels fly precariously at the edge of the ramp.
Performed on a custom-designed architectural ramp installation with hills, curves, and peaks, DESCENT explores the pleasures of wheeled movement and reckless abandon. Combining dance, architecture, design, and technology, this evening-length work challenges cultural assumptions of what disability, dance, and beauty can be. Voted as 2018’s most moving performance by the readers of Dance Magazine, DESCENT is “An ingenious set of ramps serves as a canvas for projections of stars and seas, and as a surface for wheelchair motion with the gliding grace of ice dance,” according to The New Yorker.
To attend this performance, Kinetic Light requires masks for this engagement, and there will also be expanded accessible seating.
Free for Hixson-Lied students. Go to the link below, select Arts for All and use your NUID number to verify for tickets.