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JJ Omelagah, holding a mic for Kayla Hamilton, inside of a Movement Research studio. Kayla is demonstrating a movement for the How We Move cohort with both arms pointing in opposing directions. Both folks are masked.
Photo: Whitney Browne
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When Something Does Not Exist, We Must Create It

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Embraced Body redefines the dance intensive in their inaugural How We Move program.

Kayla Hamilton, a Black woman in a flowing black tunic, extends her arms directly in front of her, open hands reaching forward. She is facing stage right, with an open facial expression. Photo by Ahad Subzwari/The Shed.
Photo by Ahad Subzwari/The Shed.
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When you find it, pick it up

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Kayla Hamilton’s How to Bend Down/How to Pick It Up ushers in an exciting new era.

A black & white image of Kayla Hamilton, a dark-skinned Black woman. She is dancing in front of a textured wall that has horizontal layers. Her arms are energetically reaching down to the diagonal as her head is tilting to the diagonal with her dreads moving back in that same direction. She wears a diagonally striped long sleeve shirt with pants. Photo by Travis Magee.
Photo: Travis Magee
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Kayla Hamilton ‘Dreams Larger’ with a Disability Futures Fellowship

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

The visionary artist reimagines a dance world where every body is worthy of care.

Photo: Andrej Uspenski
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A Call To Action for Inclusive Dancing: Empower in Motion in London, UK

Catja Christensen

Inclusivity, Unity, and Individuality.

Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk
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Imagination as Survival in “YO OBSOLETE”

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez seamlessly weaves together audio description and imaginative narrative.

Photo: BRITT/ Jay Newman
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A Spoon Becomes a World of Crip* Possibilities

Rachel DeForrest Repinz

Disability, queerness, and belonging in ‘the spoon’ of Kinetic Light’s DESCENT.

Photo: Wide Eyes Studios
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Swimming Together in “Rhythm Bath”

Jonathan Stein

The Mimi Lien installation provides a celestial embrace to the grounded embrace of the dancers.

Photo: Kenwyn Samuel and Hook & Loop
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VISIBILITYtalks: Hook & Loop

Kenwyn Samuel

First in a series of video conversations in collaboration with Philadelphia-area artists on the Disability Spectrum.

  • News

Announcing VISIBILITYtalks Video Series

Mira Treatman
Photo: Shawn Ganely
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A Danced Conversation Between Disabled Bodies

Christina Catanese

Dawn States Company investigates the possibilities of accessibility and inclusivity for Fringe.