Axis Dance Company is Changing the Face of Dance and Disability

Axis Dance Company is a company that started out as a social experiment to see what would happen when people with and without disabilities got together to create dance. The critically acclaimed dance company has been featured on shows like, So You Think You Can Dance and has received seven Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, acknowledging their creative achievements.

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 The dance company has toured throughout the U.S. and is currently  in Chicago at the Harris Theatre on October 8 and 10^th. They have become one of the world’s most acclaimed ensembles of performers with and without disabilities. Axis collaborates with top choreographers and composers to create new and innovative performances.

They work together, improvising and figuring out how someone in a wheelchair can move and use their strength and capabilities to create this beautiful art form. Axis combines dancers that are so physically different and want audiences to see them as a new way that dance could be. They show people that even though they’re in a wheelchair, they are still able to come together through movement and be part of something amazing.

During their visit to Chicago, the dance company will conduct a physically integrated dance workshop at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, introducing the exciting art of physically integrated dance for people with and without physical disabilities.

Check out their amazing performances and if you’re in Chicago, so see them at the Harris Theatre.