T.I.A. for young audiences
T.I.A. for young audiences
T.I.A. dance productions
T.I.A. dance productions is led by Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, Hannah Dewor, Lilian Korner, and Bex Pattison.
At T.I.A. dance productions, we believe that working with youth forms the foundation for accessibility in dance. The project “T.I.A. for young audiences” aims to develop an infrastructure for a community that engages with creative, integrated audio description in central Hesse. Our touring production “Tanzselfies #unfiltered” (dance selfies #unfiltered) is aimed at audiences 11+. This dance piece is created with Blind, Low Vision and BIPoC
youth and adults in mind. Two dancers with intersecting experiences of discrimination, including sexism, ableism, and racism, encounter each other on stage.
Furthermore, we will conduct workshops on audio description and dance in addition to performing our work in Marburg and Gießen, thereby expanding our practice beyond Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Our approach to creative integrated audio description includes how we promote our events and how we reach our audiences. We actively ask ourselves
how our audiences can arrive at venues and what conditions they might need to feel welcomed and supported.
“Tanzselfies #unfiltered” aims to invite audiences ages 11+ to encounter movement as a form of personal expression and learn that professional dance is open to disabled people.
Our community-oriented approach enhances accessibility in the dance field, while the accompanying workshops share our practice with Blind, Low Vision and sighted audience members alike.
Jury statement:
Creative integrated audio description (AD) truly brings something new to the contemporary dance scene. Artists who are already familiar with this type of work are now expanding on the approaches they began in Frankfurt and Wiesbaden.
T.I.A. dance productions is a collective of queer, BiPoC, and disabled artists founded by Amelia Uzategui Bonilla. Their goal: to build a community infrastructure for creative integrated AD in central Hesse. They are developing a piece for young audiences aged 11 and up, while also offering workshops on dance and audio description for blind, visually impaired, and sighted participants. From Frankfurt, the piece and the workshops will move to Giessen and Marburg, imparting knowledge about dance and access: accessibility refers to artistic production – and the ways in which people experience a piece, how they get to the venue and feel comfortable there.