Kitty Lunn began her study of ballet at an early age, and at 15 she was dancing principal roles with the New Orleans Civic Ballet, where she made her professional debut in the title role 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 DeMille, 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.
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In the fall of 1995, she founded Infinity Dance Theater, a non-traditional dance company featuring dancers with and without disabilities. Infinity 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 a wheelchair dance technique strongly rooted in and growing out of classical ballet and modern dance. Ms. Lunn is a Registered Dance Educator, former faculty member of the National Dance Institute, and former adjunct faculty of Columbia University's Dance Education Program (at the graduate level). To read more about Kitty Lunn and Infinity Dance Theatre, please see the articles on the Information Page. |
