AXIS Dance Company

We collaborate with disabled and non-disabled artists to create virtuosic dance productions.

AXIS Dance Company - A World Where Everyone is Dancing

Let's redefine dance and disability.

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What’s Coming Up

Performances

Janpi hold a side lunge in their wheelchair; Alaja places one foot on Janpi's knee and soars through space with their other leg lifted in an upward extension. Luggage hangs from the ceiling above the dancers. White AXIS and Jacob's Pillow logos are placed on the image
July 14 2023
AXIS at Jacob’s Pillow

AXIS is honored to be presented at the 2023 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Western Massachusetts, …

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Janpi hold a side lunge in their wheelchair; Alaja places one foot on Janpi's knee and soars through space with their other leg lifted in an upward extension. Luggage hangs from the ceiling above the dancers. White AXIS and Jacob's Pillow logos are placed on the image
July 15 2023
AXIS at Jacob’s Pillow

AXIS is honored to be presented at the 2023 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Western Massachusetts, …

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Janpi hold a side lunge in their wheelchair; Alaja places one foot on Janpi's knee and soars through space with their other leg lifted in an upward extension. Luggage hangs from the ceiling above the dancers. White AXIS and Jacob's Pillow logos are placed on the image
July 16 2023
AXIS at Jacob’s Pillow

AXIS is honored to be presented at the 2023 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Western Massachusetts, …

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Classes, Workshops & Fellowships

Headshots of four artists, alongside white AXIS & Mellon Foundation logos. Davian Robinson poses orange sweater with a big wide smile. Then, a brightly-lit photo of Larissa from the shoulders up. Larissa has light brown skin and short, curly black hair that curls around their foreheard and ears. They are smiling at the camera with a soft expression. They are wearing a teal shirt with a yellow design, and a green mask with a plaid design hangs off of their left ear. Sammie, a white person in their early 20s, is kneeling on a grey floor with a white wall behind them. They are looking slightly up and to the left. Then, Saira - a queer person with warm brown skin and a green bun - leans one eye toward a candle.
May 30 2023
2023 Choreo-Lab Fellowship

Calling all disabled choreographers! The goal of the AXIS Choreo-Lab Fellowship is to develop, refine and …

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JanpiStar, who is a wheelchair user, raises two hands up while improvising with a student in a dance class. Two other dancers improvise behind them. White and yellow text reads program information described below, with a circular yellow button that reads
July 24 2023
2023 Summer Intensive

AXIS Dance Company invites disabled, non-disabled and neurodiverse dancers from around the world to engage, share …

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Meet the AXIS Team

It takes a village to redefine dance and disability! Learn more about our close-knit team of fantastic dancers, staff and leadership: Meet AXIS Team

A group of 11 diverse disabled and non-disabled AXIS employees stand and sit together for a group picture. Everyone wears a white top and blue jeans, and pose against a white background.
Photo by David DeSilva, with Danae Rees, Zara Anwar, Nadia Adame, JanpiStar, Octavia Hingle, Louisa Mann, Alaja Badalich, Dawn States, David Calhoun, Alex Arzt, Yuko Monden Juma

AXIS believes in accessibility for everyone.

AXIS Dance Company pledges to work towards full accessibility for all disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent people in all of our programs and services.

In our in-person and online performances, classes and events, our goal is to always center access from the ground up – as opposed to adding accommodations as an afterthought. This goal is something we will always be working towards; there is no ‘perfect’ way to provide access for all and we always have more to learn.

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Website & Virtual Events

From ALT Text in images to ASL Interpretation and Audio Description, we strive to make our website and virtual events as accessible as possible.

In-Person Access

In addition to mandatory wheelchair accessibility in all venues, we also include live ASL Interpretation, Audio Description, relaxed performance options, chemical sensitivity requests and live Touch Tour experiences whenever possible for in-person programming.

Feedback and Accommodation Requests

Do you know ways we can make our online and in-person events more accessible? Are there accommodations you need that we are not providing? We’d love to hear from you and will do our best to accommodate you. Read our Accessibility Statement for more information.

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Donate now to help AXIS redefine dance and disability. We thank you for your dedication to the transformative power of dance and inclusion.

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