Labo for Accessibility in Dance – Dance Appreciation with the Visually Impaired
Dates】
1st session Friday, December 11, 16:00-19:00
2nd session Sunday, December 27, 12:00-16:00
3rd session Monday, December 28, 13:00-17:00
[Venue] Dance Base Yokohama
Dance Base Yokohama has launched a project “Dance Accessibility Lab: A New Way of Enjoying Dance with People with Visual Impairment Dance Base Yokohama has launched a project “Labo for Dance Accessibility – Dance Appreciation with the Visually Impaired” to explore new ways of appreciating dance for the visually impaired and the visually impaired.
While one of the attractions of dance is that it can be viewed in a variety of ways, it is often perceived as “difficult to understand,” and the hurdles to viewing dance are often high. In this project, visually impaired people will watch dance works newly created by choreographers and dancers with narration by critics, poets, aesthetes, and interpreters (interpreters) who are professionals in “communicating with words”. Through the dialogue that takes place, participants will not only learn “what kind of support is necessary for dance appreciation,” but also discover new possibilities for dance from the perspective of the visually impaired, “what dance appreciation is all about. Furthermore, we expect that choreographers, dancers, and producers will gain an inclusive perspective, pioneer new dance expression, and expand the possibilities of their works.
The workshop to be held at DaBY will be compiled as a documentary video and shown as part of the Agency for Cultural Affairs’ “Project for Strengthening the Profit-Making Power of Culture and the Arts”. The video will be distributed in February 2021 on “THEATRE for ALL,” a barrier-free platform operated by precog, Inc. Please look forward to it.
Dance Base Yokohama (DaBY) Statements
DaBY opened in June 2020 with the goal of becoming a platform for opening up dance to society. DaBY has launched a variety of activities to increase accessibility to people who have had difficulty accessing dance and to increase the number of dance viewers.
In this project, we feel that we have the potential to overturn the stereotypes associated with difficulties in “watching dance” through our attempts to “watch dance” with visually impaired people. We hope that by sharing our experiences with each other, we will be able to notice new sensations and appreciate dance more deeply than ever before.
◆Links to distributed videos and reports
■Documentary Video Viewing URL
https://theatreforall.net/movie/dancebaseyokohama/
■Report Part I
https://theatreforall.net/feature/feature-daby-1/
■Report Part 2
https://theatreforall.net/feature/feature-daby-2-3/
■Two Qs
(video talk by Ms. Hayashi, facilitator of the workshop, and Mr. Fujimoto, monitor for the visually impaired)
https://theatreforall.net/ movie/dancebaseyokohama_2q/
■No disc live (“AFTER RUST” short version)
■Disc Live #1: Asa Ito
■Disc Live #2 Kiyonatsu Osaki
■Disc Live #3 Takao Norikoshi
■Disc Live #4 Natsumi Wada
◆Project Members
Eri Karatsu (DaBY Artistic Director, Aichi Arts Theatre Senior Producer)
Taku Yoshida, Nozomi Tanaka, Marika Futagawa (DaBY)
Mai Hyodo, Moemi Seki (precog Inc.)
Kenta Hayashi, Morimitsu Urano, Mieko Nakagawa (“Art appreciation workshop with visually impaired people”)
◆Project Partners
●Discribers
Asa Ito (Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Research Institute for Science and Technology, Center for Future Humanity, Liberal Arts Research and Education Academy)
Kiyonatsu Osaki (Poet)
Takao Norikoshi (Writer, Yasagure dance critic)
Natsumi Wada (Interpreter)
●Study group guests
Shoko Yamagami, Takako Matsuda (Palabra KK)
Junji Watanabe Junji Watanabe (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
●Performances
Udai Shike (Cellist)
Ryu Suzuki (Choreographer)
Kanade Ikegaya, Kohei Fujimura, Shinoh Hatanaka, Yuka Kamimura (Dancer)
FY2020 Strategic Arts and Culture Creation Promotion Project “Cultural Arts Profit Enhancement Project” Barrier-free video distribution platform Project
◆Project Member Profile
◆Project Partner Profile
●Discrivers
Guests of Study Group
Appearance in films
Visually impaired monitors
Masayoshi Idomoto
Yoshiko Ina
Masahiro Fujimoto
Akiko Matsumoto
Yasuoki Yamazaki
Observers
Kenta Komori (DaBY dance evangelist/dancer/choreographer)
Saori Haras (DaBY resident choreographer/dancer/artist)
Nao Yoshiraki (filmmaker/choreographer/dancer)
Record
Photo by Naoshi Hatori
Report by Momoko Kono
Performed works
“AFTER RUST” short version
Director, choreography, art by Ryu Suzuki
Music J.S. Bach Suite for Unaccompanied Cello
Arrangement by Udai Shike
Video
Video Production Director’s Univ.
Video Director Asahihiro Mima
Cinematography Asahihiro Mima, Mikihiro Endo
Planning and production Dance Base Yokohama, precog Inc.
Organized by Dance Base Yokohama
Co-organized by THEATRE for ALL
Agency for Cultural Affairs FY2020 Strategic Arts and Culture Creation Promotion Project “Arts and Cultural Profitability Enhancement Project”
Barrier-free video distribution platform project
THEATRE for ALL Precog Inc.
