Exposing the Implicit: AD for Aerial Action, Identity, and Storytelling

Abstract

ABSTRACT Dr. Katrina Carter shares some of the challenges and successes she encountered when incorporating Audio Description (AD) into an undergraduate circus module in the UK, for the first time. She demonstrates how, by considering diverse audiences, access tools can enhance the creative process for the artists themselves. Forcing them to question what, how and why they make specific choices can facilitate a deeper understanding of their own story-telling. On completion, the finished works then have the potential to be received more fully, by diverse audiences.