The James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance in cooperation with various constituencies at AXIS Dance Company is one of the world’s most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers ...

Judith Smith, the co-founder and director of AXIS Dance Company, a trailblazing Oakland performing arts organization that works with disabled dancers, announced her retirement Wednesday. She is 57 ...

1987: Thais Mazur founds Axis Dance, one of the first "physically integrated dance" movement companies. Axis' works are choreographed by Mazur and the dancers. 1988: Axis premieres "In This Body" at ...

When a dance piece is titled "Full of Words," there's a faint, sinking suspicion that it will be long on chatter and short on dance. Happily, however, Marc Brew's new work of that title, which the ...

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Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. AXIS Dance Company greets 2018 with the appointment of Robin Anderson as ...

“You’re not always seeing everything that’s there.”— Artistic director Judith Smith, AXIS Dance Company Since 1987, AXIS Dance Company has created an exciting body of work developed by dancers with ...

All bodies are not the same. All bodies do not move in the same ways. AXIS Dance Company was founded more than 30 years ago by women who wondered how disabled and nondisabled bodies could merge in the ...

AXIS Dance Company’s new artistic director, multidisciplinary Spanish artist Nadia Adame, makes for a rousing, enter-exit-return story. If Act III arrived with Adame’s appointment last October to her ...

As a young champion equestrian, Judith Smith grew up riding and jumping horses. Then, at age 17, a car accident left her using a wheelchair. "I spent the years after my accident pretty much sitting ...