Translations is an immersive performance for small audiences designed to be experienced with the "non-visual senses." Accessible to both blind and sighted audiences, Translations invites everyone to hear, feel, smell, and imagine live dance. Paired one-to-one with a performer, audience members use everything beyond vision to perceive the dance which takes place all around them, unfolding through verbal description, touch, currents of air moving around them, delightful smells, and the mesmerizing sounds of moving bodies. Translations offers a one-of-a-kind sensory journey.
Created by Vancouver’s All Bodies Dance Project in collaboration with VocalEye and artistic consultants from the blind community.
Limited seating capacity: Please note that due to the intimate nature of this immersive performance, seating is limited to just 10 participants per show. We encourage you to register in advance to secure your spot.
VocalEye is a non-profit society, registered charity and the first live descriptive arts service for the blind in Canada. Their mission is to provide greater access to theatre, arts and cultural events for people of all ages who are blind and partially sighted.
Featured Artists
All Bodies Dance Project · Interdisciplinary
All Bodies Dance Project (ABDP) is an inclusive dance company located on unceded Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories (Vancouver, BC, Canada). Our mission is to create opportunities for people of all abilities, genders, sizes, and backgrounds to practice, research, and create innovative, inclusive dance.
In ABDP’s work, differences are regarded as creative strengths as we explore the choreographic possibilities of diverse ways of moving and perceiving. Our work blurs the boundaries between community-engaged and professional practice. We value the lived experience of movers both with and without disabilities and approach accessibility tools and practices as sources of generative artistic possibility. Our practice aims to dismantle assumptions, biases, and default notions around contemporary dance, the theatre, and the dancing body. We want to expand the possibilities of who dances and what dance can be.
"It feels as though I’ve suddenly been transported into the centre of the work. My first inclination is to draw a mental picture of the bodies dancing, but I challenge myself to just focus on the sensation of wind on my skin." - The Dance Current
Read the full reviewCredits:
Created by All Bodies Dance Project in collaboration with VocalEye
- Director: Naomi Brand
- Artistic consultant: Collin Van Uchelen
- Stage Manager and Guide: Emily Parkhouse
- Music: Brian Eno
- Performers: Scott Augustine, Shondra Cromwell-Krywulak, Scotty Dont, Jocelyn Mah, Ezgi Turker
- Guides: Snizhana Bora (Korchova), Mariana Romero, Jacqueline Russel, Deanna Witwer, Jaz [Marshall] Whiteley-Steel
- With contributions from Paul Marshall and Kara Bullock