This is a project I started i Montréal 2006 to experiment with radio as a medium to translate dance with the help of a translator for an audience with a visual impairment. 
 
We recorded the dance in a studio and aired it on radio with an ensuing interview with the participants. There are many obstacles as well as possibilities of such an approach both for the artist and art form as well as the blind audience. What you hear here is only a short excerpt of the interview to get a taste of what the experience was like for someone who is blind. 

Participants were John Doyle and Alan Dean (totally blind since 17 and 9 years), Speranza Spiratos (translator) and Talia Leos (dancer and choreographer). The dance piece is called "L'amour est plus froid que l'hiver ou le chaleur que tueé mon cueur".  

Excerpt from Ckut90.3fm "A blind dance translation project"

This is an excerpt from an interview done by Marcus Morey Halldin for Sveriges Radio P1. For the dance performance "Different ways of Seeing" at Fylkingen i Stockholm, Sweden. The movements of the dancer is translated for an audience of people with a visual impairment. 

Collaborators on this project was Cecilia Roos: (Professor in dance interpretation at University of Dance and Circus in Stockholm) and Helena Franzén (dancer and choreographer). The dance solo is an excerpt from Helena's performance "Trigger Point". The first dance piece in this audio excerpt is a work by Talia Leos called "L'amour est plus froid que l'hiver ou le chaleur que tueé mon cueur".  


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