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Integrated Dance Organizations

This is a partial list of resources compiled by the Office for AccessAbility at the National Endowment for the Arts (Phone: 202.682.5530; TTY: 202.682.5496)

Asher Dance Eclectic
M.A.D. Theatre of Tampa, Inc
4250 Bay to Bay Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33629
Voice: 813.786.6291
Email: AsherDance@madtheatre.com
Website: http://www.madtheatre.com

Asher Dance Eclectic incorporates able-bodies and wheelchair dancers primarily through jazz and contemporary dance styles.  The company performs full-length productions in local venues throughout Central Florida.

AXIS Dance Company
1428 Alica Street, Suite 201
Oakland, CA 94612
Judith Smith, Artistic Director
Voice: 510.625.0110
Fax: 510.625.0321
Email: judy@axisdance.org
Website: http://www.axisdance.org/

Axis Dance Company is an established and internationally known Bay Area dance company with a commitment to collaborations between people with and without disabilities; innovation in dance performance; and to professional excellence. Axis is creating a new form of contemporary dance, bringing to stage exciting and profound performances. AXIS' work has received awards and critical praise from audiences and performing artists in both the arts and disability communities intentionally. AXIS offers performances, residencies, workshops, master classes and a Community Education Outreach Program.

Bethune Dance
Ida Babayan, Managing Director
8033 Sunset Boulevard, #221
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Voice:  323.874.0481
Fax:  323.851.2078
Email: ida@bethunedance.org
Website:  http://www.bethunedance.org

The Bethune Theatredanse is a company that blends the elements of dance, special effects of art, video and music to pioneer a unique theatrical experience.  Infinite Dreams, Bethune Theatredanse’s dance and drama outreach program, is an acclaimed education and performance program providing disabled children an opportunity to affirm their capabilities by participating in the world of movement and dance.

Dance>Detour
Contact:  Alana Yvonne Wallace, Founder & Artistic Director
2941 S Michigan Ave, #413
Chicago, IL 60616
Voice:  312.225.8824
E-mail: dancedetour@aol.com
Web site: http://www.dancedetour.org

Dance>Detour is a professional, diverse-abilities, performance and arts/advocacy dance company that grounds its work in the diversity of its dances- celebrating their physical, ethnic, generational, cultural and artistic differences.  The varied repertoire embraces many forms of dance from classical – to jazz – to modern – to African, which appeal to audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Dancing Wheels of the Cleveland Ballet
Mary-Verdi Fletcher, Founder
c/o Professional Flair, Inc.
Bulkley Building
3615 Euclid Avenue, 3rd floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Voice/TTY: 216.432.0306
Fax: 216.432.0308
E-mail: proflair1@aol.com
Web site: www.dancingwheels.org

A dance company made up of professional dancers with or without disabilities. Specialized in innovative and avant-garde integrated dance performances. Offers master classes to professionals and college students, and a weekly dance class and summer dance workshop for dancers of all levels.

Full Radius Dance
Douglas Scott, Artistic Director
P.O. Box 54453
Atlanta, GA 30308
Voice/Fax: 404.724.9663
Email: fullradiusdance@aol.com                   
Web site: www.fullradiusdance.org

Full Radius Dance is a modern dance company provides opportunities for children and adults with and without disabilities to experience a greater awareness of their artistic potential through dance.  The program helps to foster acceptance, understanding and inclusion of people with disabilities in the performing arts through its’ mature, choreographed complex works that celebrate technique and physicality.

Infinity Dance Theater
Kitty Lunn, Executive Director
220 West 93rd Street No. 6-C
New York, NY 10025
Voice: 212.877.3490
Fax: 212.799.1922
Email: k1infinity@aol.com  or info@infinitydance.com
Web site: www.infinitydance.com

Provides public performances, lecture demonstrations, workshops, and classes for people of all ages and abilities using the Meissner acting method and the development of wheel-chair dance technique based primarily on classical ballet and modern dance.

Inflight Dance Co.
Contact:  Paula Gorman, Founder & Artistic Director
8622 Starcrest T-6
San Antonio, TX 78217
Voice: 210-590-0818
Email: paulagorman@sbcglobal.net
Web site: http://www.inflightdance.com

The Inflight Dance Co. is a mixed ability Dance company that integrates able bodied dancers with wheelchair dances to create a profound dance presentation.  The company provides professional dance instruction in a pleasant and accessible surrounding.  Inflight Dance Co. performs throughout Texas and Nationally.

International Center On Deafness and the Arts – Center Light Theatre
Kathleen Herman, Executive Director of Programs
614 Anthony Trail
Northbrook, Ill 60062
Voice: 847.509.8260
TTY:  847.509.8257
Fax: 847. 509.8157
Email: icoda@aol.com
Web site: http://www.icodaarts.org/

The International Center on Deafness and the Arts (ICODA) provides education training and artistic opportunities for the deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing community to participate in and observe the highest qualify of professional artistic endeavors.  ICODA’s professional ICODance company features dances who are deaf, hard of hearing and hearing performing together.  In addition to performances, the company offers an outreach program and a dance studio.

Joint Forces Dance Company & DanceAbility
Contact:  Alito Alessi, Artistic Director
P.O. Box 3686
Eugene, OR 97403
Voice: 541.342.3273
Email: jointforcesdance@yahoo.com
Web site: http://www.danceability.com

Joint Forces encourages the evolution & performance of dance & cultivates a “common ground” that allows all individuals to develop creatively, regardless of abilities or disabilities.  The main programming areas are DanceAbility (dance for people both with and without disabilities), workshops, performances, choreography, and events like Contact Improvisation.

Karen Peterson & Dancers Inc.
Contact:  Alito Alessi, Artistic Director Excello Dance Space
8702 SW 129th Terrace
Miami, FL 33176-5904
Voice: 305.298.5879
   Fax: 305.378.4042
Email: kpdance@bellsouth.net
Web site: http://www.karenpetersondancers.org

Karen Peterson & Dancers is a fifteen year old Miami based modern dance company that promotes excellence in dance through its quality based performances and educational programs.  The company’s repertory is performed by both disabled and non-disabled dancers and promoted artistic integrity and integration by crossing barriers outside of tradition.  The company also provides an extensive year-long outreach program creating performances, workshops and lecture demonstrations in schools, parks, rehabilitation centers, libraries and at outdoor festivals.

Light Motion Dance Company Contact:  Charlene Curtiss
1520 32nd Ave, South
Seattle, WA 98144
Voice: 206.328.0818
Fax: 206.325.9379
Email: cacurtiss@msn.com

Light Motion was established to develop the artistic expressions of both disabled and non-disabled dancers.  Working with both choreography as well as improvisation, the Company travels nationally and internationally to perform and teach dance residencies for dances of all ages, abilities, and professional levels.

Seize The Day!
Contact:  Patricia Krauss, Artistic Director              
P.O. Box 26
Mt. Rainier, MD 20712
Voice:  301.927.2311
Email: pkseize@aol.com

Seize the Day is a contemporary dance theater company comprised of artist with and without physical disabilities.  Their arts education program includes children and adults with a wide range of physical and developmental disabilities.  The company teaches and performs in the DC Metro region and is available for year round performances/workshops nationally and internationally.

Spitzer Dance Company
Contact:  Alex Spitzer, Artistic Director 5481 Hege Brooke Point
Acworth, GA 30101
Email: sdc@spitzerdancecompany.org
Web site: http://www.spitzerdancecompany.org

Spitzer Dance Company believes that dance as an art form and means of expression that should be available to people of all abilities.  SDC’s professional Modern Company is committed to bringing dance to local, regional, national and international stages.  Along with performances, the company brings residencies, workshops, and lecture/demonstrations to the public.

Tokounou Dance Company
Contact:  Sidiki Conde
137 First Ave, #7
New York, NY 10003 
Voice:  212.533.9764
Email: tokounou@mindspring.com
Web site: tokounou.home.mindspring.com

Founded by Sidiki Conde, the Tokounou company works extensively with children and adults of all abilities giving performances while teaching African dance and music in schools, hospitals, and universities.  Participants will learn to sing and play African rhythms on djembe drums and other instruments, as well as traditional dances.