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DESCRIPTION:Kinetic Light has been dreaming up ways to connect with you\, u
 p close and personally. We are excited to host DESCENT: Online & In-Depth\
 , an online event featuring an intimate conversation between our founding 
 artists followed by screenings of DESCENT.\n\nThe first hour will be a pre
 -recorded\, podcast style conversation between the artists\; Alice Sheppar
 d\, Michael Maag and Laurel Lawson will tune into the event live via chat 
 so you can engage with them in real time during their recorded conversatio
 n. After a short break\, we’ll roll into screenings of DESCENT\, filmed 
 in 2018 at EMPAC\, with freshly revamped accessibility.\n\nThe live screen
 ing will have ASL and Open Captions. Gamble Auditorium is wheelchair acces
 sible through the Art Museum’s main entrance with seating available at t
 he top of the auditorium\, the auditorium does feature shallow stairs to t
 he majority of seating. Microphones are used in the venue. \n\nContent Not
 e: The artist conversation includes some explicit language and brief topic
 s of a sexual nature.\n\nMHC live viewing location co-sponsors: Division o
 f Student Life\, Music Department\, Dance Department\, First Year Seminars
 \, Provost’s Office\n\n \n\nAbout Kinetic Light:\n\nFounded by Alice She
 ppard in 2016\, Kinetic Light is a disability arts ensemble working at the
  intersections of disability\, dance\, design\, identity\, and technology.
  Through nuanced investment in the histories\, cultures\, and artistic wor
 k of disabled and/or Black\, Indigenous\, People of Color (BIPOC)\, the co
 mpany promotes intersectional disability as a creative force and access as
  an aesthetic critical to creating transformative art and affirming the di
 sability arts movement.\n\n \n\nAbout DESCENT:\n\nDESCENT was inspired by 
 Auguste Rodin’s work\, specifically Toilette of Venus and Andromeda. Rec
 orded in 2018 at EMPAC\, this performance features dancers Laurel Lawson a
 nd Alice Sheppard\, with lighting and video design by Michael Maag. Androm
 eda is embodied by Alice\, restoring the racial heritage that Rodin himsel
 f erased. Venus is assumed by Laurel\, who both challenges and realizes Ro
 din’s imaginations of Venus and ideals of feminine beauty. Venus and And
 romeda claim their desire\, as wheels fly within inches of the ramp’s ed
 ge. Their spines soften to taste the subtle pulls of gravity and arch into
  the sumptuous immersive world created by Michael.\n\n \n\nAccessibility I
 nquiries: \n\nFor inquiries about the accessibility of this event or to re
 quest any accommodations\, please contact dean-students@mtholyoke.edu. Ple
 ase make accommodation requests no later than August 31 to give implementa
 tion time\, however\, in all situations\, a good faith effort will be made
  to provide accommodations up until the time of the event.
GEO:42.256764;-72.572917
LOCATION:Art Building\, Gamble Auditorium
SUMMARY:DESCENT: Online & In-Depth
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