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James Dinneen

James Dinneen is a writer and audio producer in Brooklyn.

This Is What Accessibility Sounds Like

By James Dinneen

Like a number of sighted people at the I wanna be with you everywhere festival at Performance Space New York, I had never used Audio Description (AD) during a dance performance. At every other dance show I had attended in my life, I had benefited from the assumption that the audience would be watching the dance.

Alice Sheppard seated in her wheelchair holds a book and speaks directly to the audience. Candace Davider is over Alice's left shoulder making the ASL sign of emotional struggle, two open clawed hands going up with one hand and down with the other on the body several times. Both of their faces have soft expressions of internal conflict. Photo: Mengwen Cao.
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