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My love affair with the dance began at the age of eight, when my grandmother took me to see the film The Red Shoes. I saw that beautiful, red-headed ballerina up on the screen, and I knew, right then, that I wanted to be a dancer when I grew up.

After a great deal of hard work and nurturing by my teacher, Lelia Haller, in my home town of New Orleans, I was dancing principal roles with the New Orleans Civic Ballet by the age of fifteen. I made my professional debut in Coppelia. My work in New Orleans led to a scholarship to the Washington Ballet where I studied and worked with both Mary Day and the great ballet master, Edward Caton. I had the great fortune to dance in numerous ballets including Swan Lake, Giselle, Les Sylphides and The Nutcracker. While in Washington, I was privileged to work with such dance legends as Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Jose Limon and Erik Bruhn.

While preparing for my first Broadway show in 1987, I slipped on ice, fell down a flight of stairs and broke my back. Now a paraplegic, I use a wheelchair, and work diligently on behalf of performing artists with disabilities. After my accident I was sure that my dancing days were over. How could I dance when I couldn't walk? The thought of life without dancing was extremely depressing for me. I had to find a way to keep dancing. What I learned was that the dancer inside me didn't know or care that I was using a wheelchair, she just wanted to keep dancing.

In the fall of 1995, I founded Infinity Dance Theater, a non-traditional dance company featuring dancers with and without disabilities. The Company now performs all over the world, offering both concerts and educational programs. We are teaching other dance educators to bring the joy and drama of movement to a new level of inclusion by expanding the boundaries of dance and changing the world's perception of what a dancer is.

I continue to take a mainstream, professional ballet class every day and have developed wheelchair dance techniques strongly rooted in and growing out of classical ballet and modern dance. Listen to the dancer in your heart.  He or she will show you the way!

Kitty Lunn, Artistic Director





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Infinity at Theater for the New City

Frida Kahlo and the Dance with Death


September 15 & 16, 2023 at 8pm

155 First Ave (between E 9th and 10th Streets)

$15 general admission
$10 for students, seniors, people with disabilities and their personal care attendants

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Dance Classes and Professional Development

Infinity offers tuition-free dance classes for adults with physical disabilities. Professional development workshops and private training sessions are also offered to dance educators and other dance professionals.

Email Chris for more information about either program.


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