Translations

January 19th-21st, 2024

Presented as part of the High Performance Rodeo

Translations is an immersive performance for small audiences created by All Bodies Dance Project in collaboration with VocalEye and Naomi Brand with artistic consultants from members of the blind community. Translations explores the tools of live description applied to contemporary dance in order to create a performance designed specifically for the "non-visual senses."

The piece investigates the act of "audiencing" by asking questions about how spectators take in movement. What if sight isn't the intended way to experience a dance piece? How else can dance be accessed and who else can be included?
 

The performance makes dance accessible for blind and partially sighted audiences. During Translations, sighted audience members are invited to experience the dance with their eyes closed, not as a way to replicate the experience of blindness, but rather as an opportunity to focus on the information about the moving body being delivered through other senses such as the sound of the dance, the feeling of the air moving, and the images drawn in ones imagination from the description.

In this way, Translations asks audiences to consider their own perceptions and the ways that they typically access art and the world around them.

show dates & Times

Friday January 19th: 6:00pm & 8:00pm

Saturday January 20th: 2:00pm & 6:00pm & 8:00pm

Sunday January 21st: 2:00pm & 6:00pm & 8:00pm

@ Inside Out Theatre (In eau claire market)

Featuring

Performers:

Scott Augustine

Kara Bullock

Shondra Cromwell-Krywulak

Jocelyn Mah

Ezgi Türker

Scotty Waters

Program