MCA Chicago Re-Releases World Premiere of Kinetic Light’s "Wired" from May 2022 (FREE + VIRTUAL)
Company:
Kinetic Light
In honor of Kinetic Light’s Wired world premiere in May of 2022, MCA Chicago is re-releasing the performance videos. Captured in a dynamic multi-camera shoot with multiple angles, close-ups, and full stage shots, the performance is available in five accessible versions, detailed below.
These videos will be live May 8 - June 12, 2023
We hope you will experience Wired at home.
Wired is a passionate and potent aerial and contemporary dance experience that tells race, gender, and disability stories of barbed wire in the United States. The dancers of Kinetic Light trace the fine line between “us” and “them” as they explore the contradictions, dangers, and beauty of barbed wire. Wired meditates in sound, light, and movement as it questions and ruminates on power, belonging, abolition and deinstitutionalization, sexuality, art, community, and connection — all through the powerful lens of disability as creative and cultural force.
Videos
- Single-Track Audio Description + ASL for Curtain Speech + Closed Captions
- Poetic Audio Description + ASL for Curtain Speech + Closed Captions
- Multi-Track Audio Description + ASL for Curtain Speech + Closed Captions
- ASL + Closed Captions for Curtain Speech (no audio description)
- ASL for Curtain Speech + Open Captions for Music (no audio description)
Wired Artistic Collaborators
Choreography: Alice Sheppard, Jerron Herman, Laurel Lawson
Lighting, Projection, Scenic, Production Design: Michael Maag
Music: Ailís Ní Ríain, LeahAnn “LaFemmebear” Mitchell
Scenic & Prop Design: Josephine Shokrian
Audio Description: Finnegan Shannon, Cheryl Green, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Nathan Geering, Shankojam, and Mo Pickering-Symes, using The Rationale Method
AD Sound Design: Dylan Keefe, Andy Slater
Flight Director: Catherine Nelson
For additional details about Wired collaborators, access, background, and potential activations, click here.
Content Advisory: Wired honors the race, gender, and disability histories of barbed wire in America. At times, the performance includes depictions of violence and disability/race injustice. As part of the artistry of the audio description, some moments include references to sexual violence, medical trauma, disability-based and racial injustice, and other potentially sensitive topics. It also includes profanity.
Other Resources
Making Wired: Barbed Wire & More
Wired Access Guide (note some elements are for in-person experience only)
Disability Arts: Q &A with Ailís & Alice
Chicago Tribune: Developing the Aerial Dance in Wired
The Shed: Creative Q&A with Alice & Michael
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