Who is Infinite Flow Dance?
Infinite Flow Dance is an award-winning Los Angeles-based professional dance company and nonprofit that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with diverse, intersectional identities, with a mission to advance disability inclusion, one dance at a time.
Since 2015, Infinite Flow has performed over 250 times, from school assemblies to events at Apple, Microsoft, adidas, and Red Bull, and other brands. Infinite Flow’s dance videos have been viewed over 100 million times across social media, and they’ve been featured on NBC Today, Good Morning America, PBS, and other national and international media outlets.
Infinite Flow Dance was founded by Marisa Hamamoto, a spinal stroke survivor and late-diagnosed Autistic. Marisa recently became the first professional dancer named People Magazine's “Women Changing the World.”
Infinite Flow Dance is a robust social justice entity committed to radical inclusion, systems change, and producing transformational experiences. Infinite Flow Dance is available for performances, keynotes, panels, school assemblies, and accessibility & inclusion workshops, virtually and in person.
What we believe
Dance doesn’t discriminate™ Dance is a universal language. When you dance with someone, you see beyond race, color, size, age, gender, ability, disability, etc.
Accessibility is a human right, not a luxury. An inaccessible world excludes people with and without disabilities. Accessibility is a gateway and a foundation to access other rights; thus, it should be considered first, not last.
Inclusion is about us, not “them”™ Othering people with disabilities, or any group, creates separation. Inclusion is not about one group serving another. It’s about each of us being part of the change together.
Inclusion inspires innovation. Disability inclusion benefits all of us and provides a diversity of thought, experience, and perspective. Some of the greatest innovations have emerged from designing for people with disabilities: the typewriter, touchscreen, OXO peeler and sliding doors were all developed for people with disabilities. What would the world look like if we placed disability inclusion first, not last?
Disability inclusion is intersectional. Intersectionality is a theoretical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's identity combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. We take an intersectional approach to better understand and advance disability inclusion, considering how each person’s multiple identities may affect their navigation of the world and their own disability.
We are available for
Performances
Speaking Engagements
Dance Workshops
Accessibility & Disability Inclusion
Consultation & Workshops
Corporate Events
School Assemblies
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Infinite Flow’s Origin Story
Beyond being a survivor of spinal cord infarction (aka spinal stroke) and a late-diagnosed autistic, here’s Infinite Flow Dance Founder Marisa Hamamoto’s backstory.
