AXIS Dance Company: 25 Years of Daring Dance!

Fri, Mar 29 & Sat, Mar 30 • 8 pm
Sun, Mar 31 • 2pm & 7 pm
YBCA Forum
$25 Regular
$20 people with disabilities, students, seniors
$15 youth 14 and under
$20 YBCA members
FREE for YBCA:You

“There is no more defiant a land that I can think of than AXIS. They showed me what dance could be.”
—Bill T. Jones

“If art is supposed to change how we think, how we view the world, then credit AXIS Dance Company for a blazing artistic vision.”
—Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune

Prepare to leave all your preconceptions… Show more at the door. AXIS Dance Company, one of the world’s most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers with and without disabilities, will change the way you think about dance and the possibilities of the human body forever. Founded in 1987, AXIS has become a jewel of the contemporary dance scene and the disability community. AXIS has paved the way for a powerful contemporary dance form — physically integrated dance — performing in over sixty cities nationwide, as well as in Europe and Siberia. Under the Artistic Direction of Judith Smith, the Company’s list of collaborators read like a Who’s Who of contemporary dance: Bill T. Jones, Stephen Petronio, Joe Goode, David Dorfman, Joanna Haigood, Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson, Margaret Jenkins, Sonya Delwaide, Alex Ketley, Marc Brew, Meredith Monk, Joan Jeanrenaud, Fred Frith and Dan Wool. AXIS has received seven Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and an additional nine nominations.

AXIS invites audiences to share in this celebration of 25 years of excellence in creating and performing physically integrated dance. The evening of repertory is sure to excite with the premiere of Contingencies by Victoria Marks who The New York Times names “a choreographer of superior intelligence lyricism, and wit.” San Francisco-based composer and clarinetist Beth Custer will accompany with an original sound score.

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