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Sunday, November 3, 2024

The art of audio description can turn dance into a moving experience for all | Caroline Butterwick by Caroline Butterwick

Stopgap’s revelatory stage production Lived Fiction is committed to opening up dance for the whole audience Six dancers glide across the stage at the Lowry in Salford. As a visually impair…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PM

Monday, June 3, 2024

Fangs for the memories: how Dracula was made in Derby by Caroline Butterwick

The iconography of modern vampires can be traced back to a 1924 English stage version of Bram Stoker’s novel. On its centenary, the suave bloodsucker is returning to where it all began Wit…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

‘I hope it will send a message’: musical Rent to be reimagined with deaf actors by Caroline Butterwick

Using an ensemble cast of deaf and hearing actors, director Lilac Yosiphon aims to explore the isolation felt by the deaf community during the Aids crisis in the 1980s A new version of Jonat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

‘Our experience is valued’: workshops for care home residents inspire new forms of dance by Caroline Butterwick

Choreographer Aakash Odedra explains how the movements and stories of older people in Leicester are informing Mehek, his collaboration with Aditi Mangaldas Around 60 people are chatting and …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Saving Face: inside the arresting office drama about invisible illness by Caroline Butterwick

In his new show, Si Rawlinson mixes hip-hop, contemporary dance and physical theatre to explore how we present ourselves in the workplace A group of office workers are each hiding something …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

‘Disabled children need to know it is an option’: co-creating the future of dance by Caroline Butterwick

Frontlinedance works in communities to remove barriers for disabled people and those with long-term health conditions – and there’s no distinction between teacher and learner Several adu…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AM

Monday, December 26, 2022

‘Planting seeds of peace’: Bosnian war stories are brought to the stage by Caroline Butterwick

Susan Moffat and Aida Haughton explain how their play My Thousand Year Old Land was given a universal humanity by using raw, real-life testimony Three women – Pravda (meaning “justice�…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM

Friday, November 18, 2022

‘It’s undoubtedly going to have a big impact’: inside three Arts Council funding cases by Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, Caroline Butterwick and Alex Needham

In our final set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding round, we speak to Ballet Black, Disability Arts Online and Camden Art Centre Thrilled, relieved…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM

Friday, July 1, 2022

Access all areas: the creatives opening theatre up to disabled audiences by Caroline Butterwick

An audio describer, a creative captioner and an access consultant explain how their work is becoming integral to the theatre industry “I think a lot of people view me as just a bit of an a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Blindness on stage: ‘Until disabled people can tell their own stories, we’ll always be stereotypes’ by Caroline Butterwick

From unreadable scripts to ‘cripping up’, a career in theatre with a visual impairment can be a challenge. Chloë Clarke and Douglas Walker share their successes and hopes for the future…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AM

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Feel the sequins: touch tours and headset hosts are a sensation for visually impaired audiences by Caroline Butterwick

A writer who had felt shut out from stage plays finds out how Curve Leicester’s A Chorus Line is presented with audio description and a guide to the costumes Growing up, trips to the theat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AM

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