


Wiener Tanzwochen (Vienna, Austria), Kaaitheater (Brussels, Belgium), Centre National de la Danse (Paris, France) and The Place (London, UK) will work together to develop a new audience for contemporary dance performance amongst blind/partially-sighted people by creating and touring dance works made specifically to include that community as spectators and participants.
We are aiming for a step-change in the way artist and dance organisations create work with an awareness of this audience. Our arts organisations will thus be better equipped as cultural businesses to connect with these citizens and the networks that support them. Through our status amongst European art networks we will be able to share both the developed artworks and our learning easily across the EU, providing a model for best practice and a pathway to sustain engagement with this underrepresented audience.
To do so, the work program will consist of:
Simon Mayer working together with audio description experts on French audio description version of "Sons of Sissy"
Premiere audio description version of "Sons of Sissy" by Simon Mayer at CAMPING Paris.
Think tank gathering of experts (Valérie Castan, Anne Juren, Vera Tussing, Simon Mayer, Sophie Schmeiser, Willie Elliot, Eddie Nixon, Bernd Kainz, Said Gharbi, blind reference group, Michael Stolhofer)