AXIS Dance Company is a Berkeley-based contemporary dance company that creates, commissions, and performs new work with disabled and non-disabled dancers collaborating as equal creative forces. Its artistic mission centers on redefining dance and disability through rigorous, ambitious performance that expands ideas of technique, excellence, and embodiment. Through choreography that treats access and artistry as mutually reinforcing, the company has built an acclaimed body of work that challenges assumptions about who dance is for and broadens the expressive language of contemporary dance.