FESTIVAL UNBOUND

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DESCENT explores the pleasures of wheeled movement and reckless abandon. It is performed on a custom-designed architectural ramp installation with hills, curves, and peaks. Combining dance, architecture, design, and technology, this work challenges cultural assumptions of what disability, dance and beauty can be. Inspired by the sensual writings and art of French sculptor Auguste Rodin, DESCENT gives the mythological characters of Venus and Andromeda new life as interracial lovers. Voted as 2018’s most moving performance by the readers of Dance Magazine, DESCENT is “An ingenious set of ramps [that] serves as a canvas for projections of stars and seas, and as a surface for wheelchair motion with the gliding grace of ice dance,” according to The New Yorker.

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DESCENT is presented in partnership with Zoellner Arts Center.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Per Kinetic Light’s touring practices, masks are required for this performance. For the safety of the performing artists and audience, all audience members, ushers, and staff are required to be masked upon entering the venue and throughout the performance.

LOCATION: Baker Hall at Zoellner Arts Center – 420 E. Packer Ave, Bethlehem, PA 18015

RUN TIME: 2 hours, including a 15 minute intermission.

PARKING: Free convenient and safe parking is available for Zoellner events in the parking garage adjacent to the center. The entrance into the parking garage is located on Packer Avenue. Accessible parking spaces are located on the 1st and 3rd levels of the parking garage, and there is an elevator towards the Packer Avenue side of the garage.

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: This performance will include haptic interpretation of sound scores; ASL interpreters; audio description through Kinetic Light’s Audimance app; expanded accessible seating; tactile lobby experiences; sensory kits; a quiet space; and exit and entry welcome during performances. Please contact Zoellner’s box office at 610-758-2787 x0 or via email at jacqui@touchstone.org for more information or to reserve any of these services at least 2 weeks in advance.

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[Image description: Laurel Lawson, a white person with cropped hair, balances above Alice Sheppard with arms spread wide, wheels spinning. Alice, a multiracial Black woman with coffee-colored skin, opens her arms wide to receive her in an embrace. A starry sky fills the background, and moonlight glints off their wheelchair rims. Photo by Jay Newman/BRITT.]