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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Caroline Butterwick

The art of audio description can turn dance into a moving experience for all

A scene from Lived Fiction by Stopgap.
‘If the choreography is incredibly poetic, so is the audio description’ … a scene from Lived Fiction by Stopgap. Photograph: Christopher Parkes

Six dancers glide across the stage at the Lowry in Salford. As a visually impaired person, I would expect to feel lost watching dance but I know how they link arms and roll their shoulders, how the light captures their sepia costumes. This is Lived Fiction, an inclusive contemporary dance work by Stopgap, with audio description as a key part of the performance.

I enjoy audio-described theatre, but was unsure how it would work for dance, which, to me, seems so inherently visual.

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