Read "A Space For Us" by Larissa Velez-Jackson

Thanks so much to Claudia LaRocco (an art writer and interdisciplinary artist who I deeply admire) for editing and publishing my writing via Small Press Traffic. In this essay, I share a moving account of my journey to the AXIS Dance Company’s Choreo-Lab Fellowship for disabled and/or neurodiverse choreographers after my life-saving multiple myeloma treatment.

“It wasn’t just abstract — my whole body felt like it belonged to a community. I couldn’t imagine returning to more public, professional dance and choreographic life any other way.”

Read “A Space for Us” now, on The Back Room!

https://www.smallpresstraffic.org/the-back-room-article/a-space-for-us

Visual ID : Four Axis Dance Co members are together in a dance studio. One dancer in a wheel chair bends over and lightly holds the feet of a belly-down dancer on the floor. A third dancer crouches and touches between the belly-down dancer’s shoulder blades and a fourth stands with wide feet over them holding their shoulders. Two large abstract paintings are in the background.