Audio described concert gives blind or vision impaired patrons the full experience
There would be a “touch tour” beforehand to enable the audience to fully appreciate and visualise the stage setting, costumes, instruments and their placement on stage in relation to each other. The service had been offered before for select concerts in the main centres, but this was the first time every location in the tour got a taste of the audio description. The music, by Dvořák’s Slavonic String Sextet and the New Zealand String Quartet, would be brought to life by choreography from Loughlan Prior for Ballet Collective Aotearoa. Prior said his goal was to bring an energy to ...