Kinematic/Kinesthetic (2023-2025)

AXIS Dance Company commissioned Extreme Lengths Productions’ Producing Director Ben Levine to create a dance work incorporating disability robotics. Supported by a Hewlett 50 Arts Commission for Media Arts, three-year project Kinematic/Kinesthetic incorporated disability robotics to create a dance work performed at the Exploratorium (San Francisco) and Stanford Live (2025).

Kinematic/Kinesthetic uses technological innovation as a tool for artistic generation by developing robotic technologies to research new movement possibilities for disabled and non-disabled dancers. The project explores unfamiliar or un-human movement beyond the restraints of the human body, expanding understandings of ability and embodiment.