AXIS Dance Company

Since 1987, AXIS Dance Company has created an innovative body of work, which has received acclaim from an international audience. The Company has become known for setting high artistic and educational standards in the emerging field of physically integrated dance. More than any other physically integrated company in the U.S., AXIS has been a bridge between contemporary dance and physically integrated dance. Under the Artistic Direction of Judith Smith, their repertory, which includes works by renowned choreographers, Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Joanna Haigood, Sonya Delwaide, Victoria Marks, and Ann Carlson has garnered five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. The Company has created over forty repertory works, two evening length works and several works for young audiences. AXIS has been featured in several national and local broadcasts including public television KQED’s Spark program in 2004, WNET’s nationally-broadcast production of "People In Motion" as well as in a documentary video, "Dancing From the Inside Out”. AXIS’ extensive community education/outreach program, Dance Access and its youth component Dance Access/KIDS! offers classes and workshops for adults and youth of all abilities, school assemblies, presentations, lecture demonstrations, and residencies locally and abroad. Dance Access is a model program that received a CA Arts Council Exemplary Arts award in 2002 and was presented in the Kennedy Center’s national Imagination Celebration at the 2002 Olympic Arts Festival. For more information on AXIS Dance Company visit www.axisdance.org.