February 5–8, 2020 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes Bing Studio, Stanford $40 Back in 2013 I was lucky enough to attend the Bodies of Work Festival in Chicago. It was jam packed with every kind of disability art—poetry, dance, paintings, theater. I wasn’t able to make it to every event. […]
Gravity’s “(in)Visible” explores how non-sighted audiences can experience dance. Making dance performances accessible to the non-sighted is an endeavor many ballet companies have begun to embrace by offering live narration and preshow touch tours. For Jess Curtis, thinking about dance for the non-sighted is not just a challenge but also an opportunity to de-center sighted […]
Regan Linton andM. Graham Smithin Association with Wry Crips presentThe FDR Drag Show An Evening of Cabaret, Performance and Adult Beverages Performed by Regan Linton, Michaela Goldhaber, Marie Jenkins, Afi Tiombe Kambon, Ciara Lovelace, and Patty Overland September 27–29, 2019 The Costume Shop Theater This interactive, historical drag dramedy created by Regan Linton and M. Graham Smith utilizes non-traditional representations of identity—including gender, race, […]
The San Francisco Chronicle had an extensive article about wheelchair user Alice Sheppard. The article announced Sheppard has been selected as a United States Artists 2019 Fellow and her newest dance performance Pas De Deux: Robots as Our Partners is at the Exploratorium, Thursday, May 16, 8:30 pm, and Saturday, May 18, 1:00 pm. […]
Once more with feeling: I will never pay to see The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Even if money was no object, even if I had comp tickets, I still wouldn’t go. Hell, even if someone was paying me to watch the play, I would have significant pause. As an autistic person, if I […]