AXIS Dance Company presents Patterns, a performance of live dance and film exploring how movement, culture, and identity shape connection.
Every body carries patterns of movement, habit, culture, identity, and history. These patterns shape how we navigate the world—they repeat, evolve, and at times constrain us. Through a series of live dance performances and a short film from AXIS Dance Company and acclaimed choreographers Nadia Adame, Sonya Delwaide, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Kayla Hamilton, and Natasha Adorlee, Patterns explores how individuality are expressions of the infinite ways we move and connect. Witness this celebration of humanity in motion, and experience the new possibilities that emerge. Founded in 1987 and based in Berkeley, AXIS is one of the nation’s leading ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, D/deaf, and neurodivergent performers. The company is internationally recognized for productions that challenge perceptions and redefine dance and disability.
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UVA Department of Drama and Dance Program are excited to welcome AXIS Dance Company as Artists in Residence this April, including a performance April 24th in the Culbreth Theatre!
About AXIS Dance Company
Led by Artistic Director Nadia Adame, AXIS is one of the nation’s most acclaimed ensembles of disabled, non-disabled, d/Deaf and neurodiverse performers. AXIS was founded in 1987 and creates world-class productions that challenge perceptions and redefine dance and disability. The Bay Area, California-based company has toured over 100 cities in the US, Israel and Palestine, United Kingdom, Europe, United Arab Emirates, and Russia, and has received nine Isadora Duncan Dance Awards.
In tandem with a robust performance calendar, AXIS provides unparalleled integrated dance education and outreach programs. AXIS builds paths to dance education for disabled and non-disabled people of all ages, experiences, and spectrum of disabilities.
www.axisdance.org
Tickets for this event will go on sale in mid-March through the UVA Arts Box Office
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