photo by Lisa Green
A Celebration of the Disability Arts including dance, film, music, theater, and visual art!
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Aired on WBEZ October, 2022.
“If you don’t change people’s minds and hearts, they build ramps that don’t lead to an accessible doorway.”
-Ladonna Freidheim
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Dancing at a Distance
ReinventAbility's founder and director appears in three MOMENTA Dance Company video projects:
2023 Chicago Festival
Events & Dates
May 21
The Inclusive Dance Festival
July 22
Disability Arts Celebration
December 3
On Display Global
Past Events:
May 19, 2022
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
at the
Mayor's Office for People With Disabilities (MOPD) Field Office
ReinventAbility was honored to be invited by the Commissioner of MOPD for the city of Chicago to present an interactive performance at their Awareness Day Festival.
CounterBalance 2021
CounterBalance is the only professional dance production featuring award-winning Chicago artists with disabilities. The 2021 virtual presentation explored creative inclusion and accessibility through movement and technology. Passionate dancers embodied our stories with “nuance and feats of strength” that have “a humbling effect in that, just when you thought you’ve seen it all, a group of talented artists… remind us that we haven’t seen anything yet.”
November 13 & 14, 2021
MOMENTA
Featuring original choreography created for an integrated cast of dancers with and without disabilities.
March, 2020
MOMENTA
ReinventAbility contributed to a new project introducing pre-professional students to working with a wheelchair dancer. This collaboration was very well received and presented in Momenta's spring concert.
Oak Park, IL
photo by Lisa Green
December, 2019
ReinventAbility again sponsored
the inclusion of a dancer with a disability in
The Nutcracker
Variable and at times 'invisible' disabilities can be difficult for others to comprehend. ReinventAbility teaches by example through this inclusion that, when given a chance, we can not only be included but thrive and contribute. And DANCE!
University of Chicago
November, 2019
MOMENTA
ReinventAbility founder was featured in Queens, a piece embodying female empowerment and all its complexities, choreographed by Sarah Fuller in celebration of her mentor, Stephanie Clemens.
Oak Park, IL
August, 2019
SummerDance
Free To The Public.
A celebration highlighting various forms of dance and dance companies from throughout ChicagoLand!
Wrigley Square
Millenium Park
Chicago, IL
August, 2019
ReelAbilities Film Festival
Closing night celebration, following two fantastic dance films, included dance vignettes by ReinventAbility, Tango 21, and JMAXX!
Chicago Cultural Center
photo by Lisa Green
March, 2019
MOMENTA
Our founder performed in a piece by ReinventAbility Board Member and 3Arts awardee Ginger Lane in concert with MOMENTA, in a unique production that included classical ballet, historical modern, contemporary, and physically integrated dance.
November, 2018
MFPA artist Peter Soby!
Peter shared his beloved character Muffin The Cat with young people at two Chicago institutions. Children at Comer Hospital enjoyed a reading of Muffin's Fun & Curious Christmas and demonstration of mouth painting. At ICRE-R, Peter shared his own experience of living life with a disability. Students thanked him for helping them feel better prepared for their future!
September, 2018
ReinventAbility founder appeared in
CounterBalance
The Power Of Integrated Dance
A showcase of artists with and without disabilities including special guest Cleveland's Dancing Wheels and co-produced by Access Living, Bodies of Work, and MOMENTA.
Center on Halsted
Hoover-Leppen Theatre
June, 2018
ReinventAbility was excited to sponsor the inclusion
of a wheelchair dancer in the contemporary ballet
Amira: A Chicago Cinderella Story
This inclusion was historic in that it marked the first time that a wheelchair dancer was presented onstage at the Logan Center! Local school children were thrilled to be introduced to wheelchair dance, inclusion and adaptation possibilities as part of this collaboration.
Logan Center for the Arts
Hyde Park, Chicago, IL