[Perform-Talk] Fwd: REMINDER: Dark Room Ballet Upcoming Workshops: November and December 2022

[Katelyn MacIntyre]

Forwarding this for those who may be interested in self audio description and anatomy workshops. Please reply to the email listed in the information below with any questions.

~Katelyn MacIntyre, M.M.
www.katelynmac.com
www.facebook.com/KatelynMacMusic
@KatelynMacMusic
President, National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts Division

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> From: Alejandra at Dark Room Ballet <aleja at darkroomballet.com>
> Date: November 2, 2022 at 12:24:19 PM EDT
> To: Dark Room Ballet Info <info at darkroomballet.com>
> Cc: Krishna Washburn <krishnawashburn at yahoo.com>
> Subject: REMINDER: Dark Room Ballet Upcoming Workshops: November and December 2022
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> If you are receiving this message, it's because you may be interested in one or more upcoming workshops with Dark Room Ballet!
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> Sponsored by Movement Research, these workshops conclude an anatomy series, and will begin a series on audio description in dance.
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> Like all current Dark Room Ballet classes, these workshops:
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> Will take place virtually using Zoom
> Are taught by Krishna Washburn, a blind professional dancer and dance teacher
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> Prioritize the educational needs of blind and visually impaired adults
> And people who are interested in or working with audio description...
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> ... but are open to everyone!
> Are free, particularly for blind and visually impaired students...
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> But if you can, please consider making a donation to support the work of Dark Room Ballet, and in particular, the completion of the Telephone Film!
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> To register for any or all of the workshops described as follows:
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> Please send email to: info at darkroomballet.com (or reply to this message) 
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> and let us know which workshops you are interested in attending.
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> NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2022:
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> The Dark Room Presents: Audio Description as an Art Form 
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> This series of workshops explore audio description for dance as an art form of its own. These workshops are suitable for all people, from those with no prior knowledge of audio description all the way to working professional audio describers. Each workshop can be experienced as a standalone class, or students may choose to register for the series. Like all workshops and classes in the Dark Room, these workshops are designed specifically for the educational needs of blind and visually impaired people, and priority is given to blind and visually impaired students for registration.
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> The Layered Body: Self-Audio Description that De-Centers Sight
> Saturday, November 5th, 4 PM New York Time
> Audio description for dance has, for too long, stayed deliberately superficial and visual in its descriptions of movement performance. In this workshop, participants will cultivate the somatic skills and body awareness to describe how the body feels in movement, rather than how it looks, de-centering sight and rooting itself in visceral language.
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> Your Memory is Real: Creating Memory-Based Self-Audio Described Dance
> Saturday, November 12th, 4 PM New York Time
> This is a Blind Art workshop, where participants are given the tools, coaching, and safe space to develop memory-based self-audio described movement performances for one another. Learn how to move and speak simultaneously, and welcome others into your authentic memory space.
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> How it Feels: Integrating Physical Sensation and Emotion in Self-Audio Description
> Saturday, November 19th, 4 PM New York Time
> Emotional content is often deliberately excluded from audio description for dance. In this workshop, participants will cultivate a self-audio description practice that can help fully integrate the description of physical movement and the accompanying emotional experience.
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> Forming Effective Audio Description Partnerships Between Dancers and Describers
> Saturday, December 10th, 4 PM New York Time
> Audio describers can create their best art when they can form real partnerships with dancers that have self-audio description skills. Whether you are a dancer who wants to hone your self-audio description skills or an audio describer who wants to learn the questions to ask when developing descriptions (and what to do with the answers), this crucial teamwork will be cultivated here.
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> Audio Description for Traditional Ballet Performances
> Saturday, December 17th, 4 PM New York Time
> Using the framing device of Act 1, Scene 1 from Giselle, participants will develop a different set of expectations for audio described traditional ballet performances, and will co-create a manifesto for ballet audio description for wide-spread dissemination among traditional arts presenters.
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> Best,
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> Alejandra Ospina, Program Coordinator
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> on behalf of
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> Krishna Washburn, Artistic Director
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> Dark Room Ballet with Krishna Washburn
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