Kinetic Light makes Lincoln Center debut with "Under Momentum" (NYC Premiere)
Company:
Kinetic Light
DISABILITY ARTS ENSEMBLE KINETIC LIGHT
MAKES LINCOLN CENTER DEBUT WITH UNDER MOMENTUM
January 17, 2023 – The internationally-recognized disability arts ensemble Kinetic Light will make its Lincoln Center debut with the NYC premiere of Under Momentum, February 17-19, 2023 as part of Lincoln Center Presents. Performances are accessible and open to the public.
Working 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. The company is led by disabled artists; disabled artists create, design, and perform the work, which speaks to and emerges from disability aesthetics and disability culture.
In Lincoln Center’s intimate Clark Studio Theater, Laurel Lawson and Alice Sheppard of Kinetic Light will perform Under Momentum, a duet that celebrates the joys of continuous motion, the allure of speed, and the beautiful futility of resisting gravity. Releasing into these explorations of momentum, torque, and suspension, Lawson and Sheppard reveal the exhilaration of wheeled movement on a series of ramps designed by artist and design researcher Sara Hendren. Their performance creates a world of exhilaration, sensuality, and play.
Under Momentum premiered in 2018 and has been performed in its duet form at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (MA), the Whitney Museum of American Art (excerpt, NY), Forward Motion Festival (FL), Atlanta Beltline (GA), University of Rochester (NY), Hobart & William Smith Colleges (NY), SUNY Oswego (NY), and beyond.
Kinetic Light commits to an artistically equitable approach to access within its artistic works, culture, and day-to-day operation. Lincoln Center is also committed to audience and artistic access. Accessible theater experiences have been crafted through expanded accessible seating, accessible marketing, patron services, Audimance audio description, and more. Access details are below.
Performance Details
Kinetic Light at Lincoln Center
Under Momentum
Friday, February 17 @ 7pm; Saturday, February 18 @ 2pm; Sunday, February 19 @ 2pm
Clark Studio Theater
Rose Building, 7th Floor
West 65th Street between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenue
Access: This performance will include haptic interpretation of sound scores ASL interpreters before, during, and after the show; audio description through Kinetic Light’s Audimance app; CART captioning; accessible seating; tactile experiences; sensory kits; a “chill out” quiet space; and exit and entry welcome during performances. Access ushers will be available and on-call.
Tickets: choose-what-you-pay $5-$25 https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/under-momentum-717
Masks and proof of vaccination are required.
ABOUT KINETIC LIGHT
Founded by Alice Sheppard in 2016, Kinetic Light is a disability arts ensemble working at the intersections of disability, dance, design, identity, and technology. Through nuanced investment in the histories, cultures, and artistic work of disabled and/or Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), the company promotes intersectional disability as a creative force and access as an aesthetic critical to creating transformative art and affirming the disability arts movement. Kinetic Light artists include Laurel Lawson, Michael Maag, Alice Sheppard, and Wired artist Jerron Herman.
Company member Lawson leads the development of artistically accessible approaches, software, and products including Audimance, an app offering multiplex audio description experiences. Kinetic Light’s field-building and community work includes Access ALLways, a holistic approach to artistically equitable access; a fellowship program for disabled arts workers; events aimed at supporting U.S. disabled artists in their own art-making; and more.
Kinetic Light has been presented by the BRITT Music & Arts Festival (OR), Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY), Jacob’s Pillow (MA), MCA Chicago (IL), New York Live Arts (NY), Ferst Center for the Arts (GA), The Shed (NY), Walker Art Center/Northrup (MN), The Whitney Museum (NY), and The Wilson Center (NC). The company has received funding from the Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, MAP Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, and New England Foundation for the Arts,among others. For more info: https://kineticlight.org
FUNDING CREDITS
Lead support for Kinetic Light is provided by the Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and Borealis Philanthropies’ Disability Inclusion Fund.
Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson lay backwards in their wheelchairs, torsos and throats open. Alice is a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin and short curly hair, and Laurel is a white woman with cropped blonde hair. They wear shimmery costumes in autumnal tones. A small set of wood ramps appear in the background. Photo by Noor Eemaan Jaffery/ Jacob's Pillow.
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