AXIS Dance Company presents Patterns
A performance of live dance and film exploring how
movement, culture, and identity shape connection.
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Talkback & reception with the artists to follow the performance!
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.
Yet growth emerges in the moments when patterns are disrupted, reimagined, or broken entirely.
Patterns explores the tension between repetition and rupture. The work reveals how difference is not an interruption of the pattern, but an essential part of it. Disability, variation, and individuality are not deviations from the norm; they are expressions of the infinite ways humans move, and connect.
This work reflects the belief that diversity strengthens the whole. When patterns are broken, new possibilities emerge, more expansive, more human.
Featuring new work from acclaimed choreographers Nadia Adame, Sonya Delwaide, Christopher Unpezverde Nunez, Kayla Hamilton, and Natasha Adorlee.
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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
UVA Department of Drama and Dance Program are excited to welcome AXIS Dance Company as Artists in Residence this April, made possible with support of the UVA Arts Council.
