Audio Description for Dance at Jacob’s Pillow
About this episode
The episode explores audio description as a means of making dance accessible to blind and low vision audiences, featuring insights from experts in the field.
Audio description as access for blind and low vision audience members to enjoy dance is a field ripe with experimentation. Host Lisa Niedermeyer offers examples of audio description approaches from Pillow performances, while Thomas Reid and Cheryl Green, audio describers who also co-host a podcast called POD ACCESS for disabled creators, contribute their perspectives.
Topics covered
- audio description
- dance
- accessibility
- blind and low vision
- performance
Keywords
- POD ACCESS
- experimentation
- perspectives
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