The Tallahassee Democrat
Originally published February 19, 2008
BY Mark Hinson

Axis brings complex dance to Tallahassee

Excerpt:

It isn’t every day you watch a dancer with metallic, prosthetic legs perform a duet to a mournful country ballad by Gillian Welch, but the Axis Dance Company is not your typical dance company.

Axis rolled, jumped, crawled, piggy-backed and gracefully waltzed its way into town on Monday night as part of the Seven Days of Opening Nights arts festival. Several of the dancers were in wheelchairs, some were able-bodied and the rather amazing Lisa Bufano danced with and without her artificial legs.

Read full article

Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts
Fri, February 22, 8pm
Hardin County Performing Arts Center, Elizabethtown, KY
http://www.kentuckycenter.org/

Single tickets are $15. Tickets may be purchased by contacting The Hardin County Performing Arts Center at (270) 769-8837

*Check with presenter for schedule of masterclasses, performances for youth and other education events.

FSU Seven Days of Opening Nights Festival
Mon/Tues, February 18 & 19 @ 8pm
Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre, FSU Tallahassee, FL
http://www.fsu.edu/~artsfest/

Hope Haven Children’s Clinic Fundraising Event
Fri, February 15, 8pm
Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts, Jacksonville, FL
http://www.hope-haven.org/Downloads/AXIS%20Dance%20event%20flyer%20.pdf

We will perform a 12 minute excerpt from
One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart
at the Mills College Alumni Dance and Music Concert
this Saturday, February 9, 8pm - 9:30pm.

The Mills College Alumni Dance and Music program also
includes work by Slow, Children, Agnes Szelag, Double Vision,
Patrice Scanlon, Marielle Jakobsons, Katie Faulkner, and Trisha Brown.

Lisser Hall
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
Wheelchair Accessible
Free Admission
directions to Mills College

Read more about this work

Lisa Bufano, Sonsheree Giles and Jerry Smith will perform One Breath is an Ocean for a Wooden Heart as part of the Extravagant Bodies festival in Zagreb, December, 2007.

Visit Extravagant Bodies
Learn More about the work.

December 9, 2007
Art Workshop Lazareti
Dubrovnik, Croatia

December 11, 2007
Kapelica Gallery
Kersnikova 4, 1000
Ljubljana, Slovenia

December 13, 2007
KONTEJNER
Caniceva 9 10 000
Zagreb, Croatia

Girlistic Magazine published an article on my performance work, ‘Refashioning Disability,’ in the winter 2008 issue.

Read the Article

I’m excited about a new dance on stilts that will premiere in Croatia in December.
One Breath is an Ocean for a wooden Heart is unusual contemporary dance duet created in collaboration with dancer Sonsheree Giles and composer Jerry Smith.

Learn More

Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center
Sat, November 17th @ 7:30pm & Sun, November 18th @ 2:30pm
Birmingham, AL

To buy tickets and to view the scheduleof masterclasses, performances for youth and other education events:
http://main.uab.edu/Sites/ASC/lineup/series07/4593/

Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center
Sat, November 17th @ 7:30pm & Sun, November 18th @ 2:30pm
Birmingham, AL

To buy tickets and to view the schedule of masterclasses, performances for youth and other education events:
http://main.uab.edu/Sites/ASC/lineup/series07/4593/