Reel Abilities

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25

Opening Night @

777 Evening Street

Worthington, OH 43085

Dancing Wheels Master Class: 4:00 – 5:00 pm

Members of The Dancing Wheels Company will conduct a physically integrated dance workshop providing participants an in-depth look at physically integrated dance through adaptive translation, integrated partnering techniques, and the opportunity to try dancing in a wheelchair. Registration is required and class size is limited to 30 participants.

Dancing Wheels Performance: 6:30 pm

Opening reception begins at 6:00 pm for all class and performance attendees.

In celebration of its 35th Anniversary Season and the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, The Dancing Wheels Company will show a preview performance of Going Up, a work of dance theater set in an imaginary elevator with theatrical, explosive movement vocabulary choreographed by Mark Tomasic. With each new floor the elevator reaches, riders and audience members come face-to-face with stereotypes and obstacles people with disabilities encounter daily. Personal stories reveal universal truths via live and recorded text fused with a divergent range of music from EDM artist Judson Mohawke to Puccini to Antônio Carlos Jobim.

This performance is made possible by a grant from Puffin Foundation West, Ltd.

Film Screening: Lost & Sound

8:00 pm

Made by a partially deaf filmmaker after the future of her own hearing was called into doubt, this moving and intimate documentary follows music critic Nick Coleman, dancer Emily Thornton and pianist Holly Loach over 2 years, as they journey deep into sound and silence. It combines intimate filming with original animation, a rich musical soundtrack, and new insights from the world’s top neuroscientists to tell the story of the great human love affair with music.

Click the film image to view a trailer.