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Meet our youngest fundraiser Talya (in white shorts & ponytail)! Talya is an 8 year old girl from Rhode Island. For her 8th birthday party this weekend she held a fundraiser for AXIS. She raised $400 for our company by selling delicious ice-cream sundaes! Thank you Tayla for this wonderful gift and from all of us at [...]

Tell a bit about yourself? My name is Jo Moffatt, I am from Brighton in England, but have been living in San Francisco for almost 2 years now. I live with my husband, Andrew and our black and white cat, Monstey. Back in the UK, I worked in the dance industry for many years as [...]

Were you unable to attend our April performances? No problem!! We recently asked some AXIS fans who mentioned they were interested in blogging to reflect a bit on their experience with AXIS and the 25th Anniversary Performances in April. Here are some of their thoughts and reflections: “I first heard about AXIS through Education Director, [...]

By Chelsea Embree, Co-Mosaic Editor (this article original appeared on the KNOX STUDENT BLOG) “Dear audience, this —” a dancer said, extending a hand, “— is an invitation.” And it was for sophomore Juan Irizarry, who joined a member of the AXIS Dance Company on the stage at the Space Place Theater at the University of Iowa on Friday, April [...]

Shared by former dancer, Megan Schirle during the 25th Anniversary Home Season Every touring company knows how challenging it is to take the show on the road. But the amount of creative problem-solving and contingency planning that AXIS staff and dancers have to engage in is difficult to imagine until you experience it, as I did [...]

Meet the collaborators for this weekend’s premiere of what if would you: Victoria Marks returns to AXIS to choreograph this new work inspired by the logic of “if/then” statements. “Creating with AXIS is always an experiment!”       Laura Hazlett, costume designer, is very honored to be working with AXIS for the first time, [...]

  Allan Ulrich April 7, 2013 ( originally appeared in Datebook, SF Chronicle) How wrong can a writer be? Back in 1987, when AXIS announced its first season, the very idea of a dance company highlighting performers who were partially abled (we used another term in those days) struck me as an example of Bay [...]

July 15th – July 19th, 2013 | 9:30am – 4:00pm Berkeley  &  Oakland, CA  | Cost: $250 For the first time in 25 years of its existence, AXIS Dance Company offers an accessible, age appropriate intensive called Get inMotion!.  AXIS will team up with the popular BORP (Bay Area Outreach Recreation Program) to provide an unforgettable movement experience! Campers will [...]

Congratulations to Mark Travis Rivera! Mark will be our AXIS’ Immersion Apprentice May – August. This apprenticeship is made possible through funding from the Rosemary Kennedy Internship Initiative a program of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and its affiliate VSA. Mark Travis Rivera is the artistic director of marked dance project, a modern [...]

In 3 weeks AXIS will celebrate it’s 25th Anniversary Performances. One of our world premieres will be “what if would you” choreographed by Victoria Marks with original music by Beth Custer. Here is a short behind-the-scene video with Judith Smith, Victoria Marks & Beth Custer talking about the work. Buy tickets for the show. Find [...]