Traveling Light

Alexis Karl
| United States
| 00:07:04
 | 
2:00pm Saturday 1st March 2025

Follow the tightly-knit community on their symbolic journey into the woods. They carry only the experiences, memories, and dreams that matter to them.

Traveling Light, a short dance film celebrating performers with disabilities, reveals the language of movement as a profound form of communication. The film explores human connections and community as well as our inevitable link to nature.

The film has a version with an audio description.

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