"Now the entire audience will hear such descriptions, within a groundbreaking work that explores how blindness can redefine our responses to sensation, sound and storytelling. In her art, Healey is guided by a desire to show how blindness and disability can offer an alternative form of perception for everyone. Her immersive descriptive audio, woven with the music, is at the centre of the performance on stage."
"Making world-class ballet and opera for everyone is a motto of the Royal Opera House. Under Kevin O'Hare, the Royal Ballet's director, the company is focusing on radical accessibility inviting artists and audiences to experience ballet in transformative new ways, he said. The new work is being choreographed by Tiler Peck, Bim Malcomson and Rebecca Myles Stewart, as well as McGregor, each collaborating with Healey."
"Robert Binet, the curator of this commission, said: World Ballet Day was founded on the principle of access. After a decade, we're pushing that concept further to consider how disabled perspectives can shape our art form, and invite audiences of all abilities and experiences to experience dance in new ways. Having worked with Healey in Canada and Australia, he realised that sighted people who had experienced Healey's descriptive audio felt it helped them understand dance, which can seem so abstract."
The Royal Ballet will present a new commission that broadcasts descriptive audio to the entire audience, making visual description integral to the performance. Devon Healey, a blind artist, collaborates with Sir Wayne McGregor, choreographers Tiler Peck, Bim Malcomson and Rebecca Myles Stewart, and composer Max Richter. The work premieres on 12 November, World Ballet Day. Healey's immersive descriptive audio is woven with the music and designed to reframe blindness as an alternative mode of perception. The Royal Opera House aims to make world-class ballet and opera accessible, and the company is pursuing radical accessibility under director Kevin O'Hare. The commission examines how disabled perspectives can reshape dance.
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