Image description: Krishna, a thin, pale skinned woman with long dark hair pulled into a braid, poses on a studio stage. She is wearing a simple white dress with her shoulders exposed and a fluffy white headdress perched on her forehead and wrapping down her braid. She looks over her left shoulder as she lightly holds a straight cane between her hands and points her left foot behind her. Photo Credit: Krishna Washburn & Micaela Mamede

PAST workshop

[Virtual] Voices from the Dark Room: The Multitude of Audio Descriptions and When to Touch Them

Krishna Washburn

,

Alejandra Ospina

4:00pm – 5:30pm
June 18, 2022
$16

Hosted by Movement Research, Dark Room Ballet is designed specifically for the educational needs of blind and visually impaired adults.
Dark Room Ballet Series is offered at no cost.

Dark Room Ballet presents:

Voices from the Dark Room:
The Multitude of Audio Descriptions and

When to Touch Them

This Workshop is offered online via Zoom.

To register email [email protected]


Workshop Description

This self-audio description workshop gives students the framework for thinking of audio description as not a singular process with a singular best practice, but as multiple art forms with multiple purposes. Audio description has, for too long, been considered as an access tool that can be deployed at a moment's notice with little forethought, but this sort of thinking creates environments of severe inequity. Classrooms, rehearsals, and performances where blind and visually impaired people are given inadequate connection to the art at their center are ableist places.

Part One: Audio Description in Technique Class
Part Two: Audio Description for Narrative Performance (story arc)
Part Three: Audio Description for Non-Linear Performance (emotional quality) Part Four: Audio Description as Cooperative Creation and Collaboration (two voices)
Part Five: Audio Description for the Ensemble (a thousand voices)

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Krishna Washburn

Krishna is the director and teacher of Dark Room Ballet, a pre-professional dance curriculum designed for the educational needs of blind and visually impaired people, the only course of its kind in the English-speaking world. Krishna holds a Mas...
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Alejandra Ospina

Alejandra Ospina is a first-generation native New Yorker with roots in Colombia. She has been active for many years in advocacy and performance projects locally and beyond. In her youth, she was a founding member of the Fearless Theater Company ...
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