Experience the magic of Firebird’s Princex scene once more as we celebrate Disability Pride with the Museum of Science.

Join Founder Ellice Patterson as she discusses how reading has influenced her life and work, as well as how it tangibly supports accessibility for audiences within our performing company and students within our community engagement program.

Ellice Patterson, Founder & Executive Director at Abilities Dance Boston, will join the Boston Women Fund’s conversation to share what it means to hold community trauma and care while navigating systems rooted in scarcity. We'll also unpack what true investment in rest, wellness, and sustainability could make possible.

Abilities Dance is thrilled to partner with Modern Connections to show a work in progress. We will be showing a duet we’re creating for Firebird Part 2 featuring Dara Capley and Claire Lane. We hope you’ll be able to make it to the Showcase on June 5, 2026 at 7 pm at the the Jackson Dance Lab at Tufts University.

Porter Square Books is excited to partner with Abilities Dance for a workshop on teaching and learning with deaf/disabled students. This workshop will be led by Ellice Patterson, Founder/Executive & Artistic Director of Abilities Dance Boston. Porter Square Books will donate 20% of sales from 5-7PM to Abilities Dance. 

This is a pre recorded event from our November 7th premiere.

This event will feature the music of Abilities Dance Boston. There will be no dance, but music only to highlight the contributions of our composers over the years.

Be part of the powerful third installment of Branches — a dancer-led online performance on September 20 at 7 PM EST!

Featuring stunning original choreography by Dara Capley, Vanessa Cruz, Claire Lane & Leslie Taub, with an evocative new score by composer Erin Rogers. Register today

✨ Don’t miss our first-ever dancer-led in-person performance! ✨⁠

Join us on Constitution Beach for a powerful, FREE outdoor event featuring original choreography by Dara Capley, Claire Lane, and Mira Goksel, with live music by composer Robert Gross. 🌊🩰🎶⁠

(If you can't make it in person, we'll share a recording with captions and audio descriptions at a later time.)⁠ ⁠

We’re excited that the arts and culture sector is coming together for a mayoral forum. Abilities Dance has been a proud supporter and host committee member for this event and we cannot wait to be in community with you all soon.

See a series of solos from ADB’s repertoire at Museum of Science’s Disability Pride Celebration.

Join Abilities Dance at the Discovery Museum for a performance by Ellice Patterson, scientist by night, dancer by day. Ellice is a biologist who is passionate about science communication and is the Founder/Executive and Artistic Director of Abilities Dance Boston. Check out this side of her work as she performs adaptive ballet at Discovery Museum.

Ellice Patterson is co-creator of our Black Women in Science program series and a Discovery Museum Science & Engineering Communication Fellow.

There is a global movement to catalyze the arts for health. Boston Arts Activation 2024: Harmony and Healing brings a global conversation to Boston to inspire collaborations and celebrate local initiatives. Bringing together artists, thought-leaders, healthcare professionals, and arts-focused organizations, BAA2024 features a full day of workshops, art experiences, performances, and conversation about the intersection of arts and health in the Greater Roxbury and Dorchester communities.

Abilities Dance is thrilled to be a part of the Arts for All conversation at 11:15

ED/AD Patterson is proud to be on the panel about Advancing Social Equity, Accessibility and Justice in Boston at the SDG Summit from 10:30-11:30 am on Saturday, September 28. We hope those interested in connecting with professionals in the environmental and social impact field can discuss how to better advance these and other environmental, social, economic and technological impact for good in the Greater Boston area.

A fully virtual dancer-led show highlighting disability justice and climate justice.

Choreographers share new original pieces delving into their personal touchstones and reflections on the show’s themes of climate change and disability justice, and where we can find wisdom and learning on new ways to move together.

Tickets are pay-what-you-can ($25 suggested).

Virtual only
Aug. 24, 2024, 7:30pm EST

Access info:
ASL, auto-captions, audio descriptions

ADB is so excited to partner with Boston Children’s Museum to present excerpts from The Banned Ballet on July 20, 27, and August 3. Inspired by the sweeping book bans across the country aimed at eliminating diverse identities from schools, public libraries, and public discourse in general, this original story brings our diverse stories to life, told by the queer, trans, disabled, and BIPOC voices who live them.

IMAGE ID: a black poster with a dimensional green form of a stippled concave-appearing dish bisected by a smooth rectangular shape. Text reads: ASC Ep. 10 ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL, Masary Studios, Lani Asuncion, Yanran Bi, Kate Orion, Sohyoung Park, Ellice Patterson

Image description: Digital flyer. Join Cultural Equity Learning Community and Open Door Arts on August 1 at 6pm for live performance by All Voices Count and conversations with Ellice Patterson. More info at bit.ly/augustcelc

ADB is so excited to partner with Boston Children’s Museum to present excerpts from The Banned Ballet on July 20, 27, and August 3. Inspired by the sweeping book bans across the country aimed at eliminating diverse identities from schools, public libraries, and public discourse in general, this original story brings our diverse stories to life, told by the queer, trans, disabled, and BIPOC voices who live them.

ADB is so excited to partner with Boston Children’s Museum to present excerpts from The Banned Ballet on July 20, 27, and August 3. Inspired by the sweeping book bans across the country aimed at eliminating diverse identities from schools, public libraries, and public discourse in general, this original story brings our diverse stories to life, told by the queer, trans, disabled, and BIPOC voices who live them.

Join us for a night exploring and celebrating disability visibility in the arts. The evening will include performances from Abilities Dance Boston and SpeakEasy Stage Company’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Cost of Living." Tiziana Dearing, host of Radio Boston, will moderate a panel conversation about accessibility and disability advocacy in the arts with community leaders.

Are you curious to learn how one BU alum is paving the way for inclusive arts?

Get answers to these questions and more at our next Innovate@BU Alumni Disruption Series event moderated by Spencer Hart-Thompson with BU QST ‘17 alum Ellice Patterson.

“Telephone” is an activist screendance documentary celebrating emotionally rich, poetic audio description for dance, which allows blind and visually impaired people to be included fully in the joy of artistic expression.