This workshop is a practical and playful introduction to the topic of audio description of contemporary dance and performance.
Audiodescription in dance is the verbal and vocal description of bodies, movements, situations and everything else that happens on stage. It is the medium of access for blind and visually impaired audiences to participate in theatrical events.
In this workshop, artists Carolin Jüngst, Sophia Neises and Lisa Rykena will share their power-critical approach as well as ideas and experiences on the artistic use of audio description. The workshop is a kind of research lab where participants can try out different tasks and proposals to translate dance and performance into descriptive language and sounds – both as actors from the inside and as descriptors from the outside.
The workshop is for Blind people, Visually Impaired people and sighted people with an interest in dance.
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Werkstatt, Danzig am PlatzWerkstatt, Danzig am Platz Ostparkstraße 11, 3rd floor; or Henschelstraße 18 (entrance Basecamp, 1st floor) Frankfurt am Main
LANGUAGE:
Spoken English and German. Use of plain language is not possible.
PSBL. BARRIERS:
There are several possibilities of participa- tion: as a dancing, describing or feedback-giving person.
It is possible to switch flexibly between these possibilities. No previous experience with audio description or dance is necessary. All movement modes are possible, dependingon the chosen participation option. Accompanying persons may participate. Children and accompanying animals can be brought along.
Information about the room and spatial barriers will follow.
HYGIENE:
Masks are mandatory, more details will be announced.
by Sophia Neises and the choreographer duo Rykena/Jüngst (Lisa Rykena & Carolin Jüngst)
Curated by das Festival Team.
Audiodeskription und Tanz is an &FRIENDS GASTSPIEL, realized in the framework of FESTIVALFRIENDS and made possible by the programme „Verbindungen Fördern“ by Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste with means of Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
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Sophia Neises
Sophia Neises is a freelance performer, access dramaturg, theater educator (MA University of the Arts Berlin) and disability rights activist in the cultural field. She has lived and practiced in Berlin since 2015. Among other things, she has been developing the dance form “Non-visual Dance” with choreographer* Zwoisy Mears-Clarke since 2016. In 2019 she collaborated with Jess Curtis/Gravity in the performance “(In)visible” to explore an accessible aesthetic of dance for blind and visually impaired audiences. Since then, she began exploring the spectrum of audio description as accessibility and audio description as an art form. Thus, she collaborated with Ursina Tossi in 2021 and with Michael Turinsky in 2022 in dance performances at Kampnagel Hamburg, where she realized a poetic audio description embedded in sound in artistic collaboration. She identifies herself as a disabled artist and encourages to value people’s individual styles of perception to the highest degree and to create unconditional access to art already in the process.
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Lisa Rykena & Carolin Jüngst
Carolin Jüngst and Lisa Rykena work as an artistic duo between the cities of Munich and Hamburg. In their dance productions they roam through strip clubs, 1920s vaudeville theaters, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, or queer comic conventions and let mermaids, she hulks, expressive arias, velvet stages, and marble down jackets collide. Their work is engaged with queerfeminist, intersectional, and Ableism-critical body discourses and the transformation of normative categorizations of bodies. Drawing on classical, mythological, and pop cultural materials, they create characters that defy the stereotypes and clichés of heteronormative attributions. Since 2020, as part of the research project “Spoken Dance” (together with choreographer Ursina Tossi), they have been intensively exploring the artistic and political potential of audio description. They regularly produce their pieces in co-production with Kampnagel, Hamburg, and the HochX, Munich. Their works have been invited to various festivals. The production “She legend” was also presented at the Tanzplattform 2022, Berlin.
