IN DEVELOPMENT: Kinematic/Kinesthetic (2023-2025)
AXIS Dance Company is commissioning Extreme Lengths Productions’ Producing Director Ben Levine to create a dance work incorporating disability robotics. Supported by a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission for Media Arts, three-year project Kinematic/Kinesthetic will incorporate disability robotics to create a dance work to premiere at the Exploratorium (San Francisco) in 2025.
“Kinematic/Kinesthetic” will use technological innovation as a tool for artistic generation by developing robotic technologies to research new movement possibilities for disabled and non-disabled dancers. The project explores unfamiliar or un-human movement beyond the restraints of the human body, expanding understandings of ability and embodiment. The project will culminate with a multidisciplinary performance featuring dancers, robotic apparatuses, projections, and surround sound.