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KITTY LUNN, RDE*
- Founder & Artistic
Director -
Ms. Lunn's love affair with dance began at the age of eight,
when her grandmother took her to see the film The Red Shoes. By the time she was fifteen,
she was dancing principal roles with the New Orleans Civic Ballet, where she made her professional
debut in Coppelia.
Her work in New Orleans led to a scholarship to the Washington
Ballet where she studied and worked with both Mary Day and the great ballet master Edward Caton.
Numerous ballets in which she danced include Swan Lake, Giselle, Les Sylphides,
and The Nutcracker. While in Washington, Ms. Lunn worked with such dance legends as Martha
Graham, Agnes de Mille, Jose Limon, and Erik Bruhn.
While preparing for her first Broadway show,
she slipped on ice, fell down a flight of stairs and broke her back. Now a paraplegic using a wheelchair,
Ms. Lunn works diligently on behalf of performing artists with disabilities. In the fall of 1995, she
founded Infinity Dance Theater, a non-traditional dance company featuring dancers with disabilities and
non-disabled dancers. Infinity Dance Theater is committed to bringing the joy and drama of motion and
movement to a new level of inclusion by expanding the boundaries of dance and changing the world's
perception of what a dancer is. To this end, she has developed wheelchair dance techniques strongly
rooted in and growing out of classical ballet and modern dance.
*"Registered Dance Educator" certifies
that Ms. Lunn has passed an evaluation conducted under the authority of the National Dance Education
Association and the National Registry of Dance Educators, Inc.
LUÍSA RIGHETO
Artistic Associate & Dancer
LUÍSA RIGHETO was born in Brazil and graduated from the
Martha Graham School in 2016. She has performed with Alison Cook Beatty Dance (as a guest artist),
Coyote Dancers, and Ziriguidum Dance Group in New York City as well as with Dance Claudia de Souza and
Caleidos Dance Co in Brazil. In 2018, she received The Notable Brazilian Award through the Brazilian
Community Heritage Foundation. Luísa performed with Infinity Dance Theater on a shared program of
Infinity and Alison Cook Beatty Dance at The Riverside Theatre in June 2019. She was featured in the
2020 installment of Infinity's Women's Stories Project and is a teaching associate for Infinity's
weekly dance classes.
IN MEMORY OF
ANDREW MACMILLAN
Technical Director ANDREW MACMILLAN was
in one form or another of show business since 1948 when he first appeared at the Barnstormers Summer
Theater in Tamworth, New Hampshire. After a long and successful career in television news, he returned
to the stage to win critical acclaim in the New York revival of R.C. Sheriff's famed anti-war
play Journey's End.
He originated the role of Walter Hard in the Dorset Theatre
Festival's production of A Hard Look At Old Times. Mr. Macmillan performed this role
everywhere from midtown Manhattan to the summits of the White Mountains. Other diverse projects
included narration of the Emmy Award-winning PBS Nova series, the recording of the Dale Carnegie
books, Woody Allen's New York Stories, and the television series The Equalizer. Mr.
Macmillan played a pivotal role in Infinity Dance Theater's development since the company's founding,
and created the dance chairs used by Infinity Dance Theater.
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