Alice Sheppard and Laurel Lawson fly through the air in their wheelchairs, upside down, arms outstretched and curved. Projected patterns swirl below them. Alice is a multiracial Black woman with short curly red hair and coffee-colored skin; Laurel is a white person with cropped teal hair.

Cultivating Authentic Disability Representation in Dance

At times, the Opening Ceremonies for last year’s Paralympic Games was a beautiful celebration of the talents of the disabled dancers and athletes onstage, like when the brilliant South African dancer Musa Motha made magic with his crutches. But then came a moment that many in this disability dance community found upsetting: The nondisabled performers […]

What It’s Like Working as an Asian American in Dance

“Asian American” is a term that is inadequate to capture the breadth of diversity and experience it seeks to represent. Just as “dance” is shorthand for an endless range of styles from jazz to Kuchipudi, “Asian American” encompasses a vastness of cultures ranging from Korean adoptees to South Indians living in the U.S. The Asian-American […]

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