This is a video that discusses the making of Next Movement, a collaboration between Orchestra Next and DanceAbility International.

Trio is an original composition set to the music of J.S. Bach. The piece was choreographed by the Founder and Artistic Director of DanceAbility International, Alito Alessi. Trio is but one of a number of pieces set to the music of Bach, which were performed during an evening-length concert which was the signature performance for the 2019 Oregon Bach Festival held in Eugene, Oregon.

Master DanceAbility Teacher Jana Meszaros speaks about DanceAbility International, and the DanceAbility method. Content created by Alito Alessi, edited by Jana Meszaros & Madeliene Sisson. Photos and videos can be credited to DanceAbility contributors worldwide.

Don’t Leave Me explores our dependence on each other and how space determines action and vice versa. The 8 dancers play with how choices and structures constrict or how they can open opportunities for collaborative creativity. Choreographer and Guggenheim Fellow Alito Alessi’s mixed-abilities work is renown worldwide. The sets and movement were reciprocally designed with the dancers with and without disabilities. The sets were designed by Frances Bronet and the Design in Movement team of Univ. of Oregon School of Architecture. The piece changes perspectives on disabilities and on interactions with space and design, as choices within various configurations of wooden cubes unfold in real time

A collaboration of dance, space, and music How does space affect movement? How does dance transform space? In this world premiere, DanceAbility International collaborates with the University of Oregon's School of Architecture and Allied Arts, featuring top contemporary dancers from Eugene, the University of Oregon, Lane Community College, and the Shedd Institute.

DanceAbility International is a nonprofit organization established in 1987 in Eugene Oregon. DanceAbility's mission is to encourage the evolution of mixed-abilities dance by cultivating a common ground for creative expression for all people. The mission is accomplished through performance, educational programs, teacher training and workshops. The work of DanceAbility International helps decrease prejudice and misconceptions about diversity in the field of dance, and by extension in society. Alito Alessi performs with DanceAbility's principal dancer, Emery Blackwell. Emery is a dancer, choreographer, musician, composer, and teacher. He has cerebral palsy, and has been involved in promoting civil and human rights for many years. Emery is retiring this year so this will be one of his final performances with DanceAbility.

8/26/14: Award-winning dance by professional dancers with and without disabilities.

Footage includes highlights from the “informance” presented in downtown Austin as the culminating activity of the four-week intensive DanceAbility Teacher Certification Course taught by Alito Alessi of DanceAbility International. Participants came together from across the United States and Mexico to learn to teach the DanceAbility method. The Urban Intervention you see represented here is a series of structured improvisations that are meant to showcase the skills that were practiced during the course. For more information about DanceAbility go to: www.danceability.com The course was hosted in Austin by Body Shift – an on-going, community-based project funded by VSA Texas and Forklift Danceworks For more information about on-going mixed-ability classes and workshops in Austin go to: www.bodyshift.org Special thanks to Impact Austin and UT Austin Theatre and Dance Department

Alito Alessi is the Artistic Director of DanceAbility International and co-founder of DanceAbility. Alessi has been involved with the evolution of contemporary dance for the past 30 years, and is internationally known as a pioneering teacher and choreographer in the fields of contact improvisation, and dance and disability. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

Denver Fusion Exchange class demo: No Boundaries by Alito Alessi & Karen Daly from DanceAbility™ International January 9-13, 2014 DanceAbility: http://www.danceability.com/‎ IR019566

DFX- Denver Fusion Exchange- Performance Demo- DanceAbility International- Alito Alessi & Karen Daly

Choreographed by Jana Meszaros Dancers: Kelcie Laube and Maria Antonieta Alvarez Performed at Lane Community College "Collaborations 2017"

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