Like other accessibility tools, audio description provides an alternative form of perception and can enrich the experience of a work of art for disabled and nondisabled people alike. Seeing art is more than just looking at it with your eyes.

In this workshop, participants will explore various methods of audio description, learn about its history and use in contemporary performance practices, and experiment with audio description as a choreographic tool to describe dance as well as speculate about it through language.

✳︎ The workshop is aimed at blind, low-vision and sighted individuals who have experience in the performing arts and/or are interested in learning more about audio description.

Interpretation: Lee Minjin

Emmilou Roessling works with sculpture, choreography and text. Her work employs layers of opacity, camouflage and description as formal strategies, with a particular interest in the porousness of time and the ambiguous threshold between the dynamic and the static. Through repetition and diversion, her choreographies and sculptures fold back on themselves, redirecting attention towards the contexts in which they take place. She studied dance and choreography in Gießen and Amsterdam, and fine arts at the Städelschule Frankfurt. She lives and works in Berlin.