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Audio description for dance brings movement, emotion to visually impaired audiences
Some accessibility challenges have obvious solutions: replacing stairs with a ramp, or offering closed captioning for a TV show.
Others are more complicated, like making visual art accessible to people who are blind or have a visual impairment.
Audio description has been around for about 40 years. For a long time, describers were taught to keep a neutral tone. But that's starting to change, especially in audio description for dance.
“One of the reasons that’s happening is because we have blind dancers who are now involved in audio description,” says Celia Hughes, executive director of Art Spark Texas which produces art programs for underserved communities around the state. “They’re like ‘No, this hasn’t been a good experience for me; let’s make it better.’ From that is coming this whole new notion of what is the emotion of the story.”
Here's a recent example of audio description for Peter & Wendy,” a show based on “Peter Pan” put on by Houston’s Open Dance Project. The describer is Allison Tignor. The dancers featured are Sonia Engman and Ruby Cullen.
Learn more about how audio description is changing in the Standard’s special “The State of Disability in Texas.”
Shelly Brisbin previews Texas Standard's 'The State of Disability in Texas'
Our reporter producer Shelly Brisbin is hosting a one-hour special broadcast on Friday called The State of Disability in Texas. Listen to her give a preview, and let us know: what stories of Texans with disabilities do we need to know about for future reporting? We’re eager to hear your thoughts!
The hip hop pastor helping migrants at the border
The end of pandemic restrictions against migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. prompted a lot of speculation about how the situation at border would be affected. Sources at the border say fewer people are attempting to cross the Rio Grande illegally and the CBP One app gives migrants more agency.
However, factors behind migration – cartel violence, natural disasters, religious or political persecution – continue to force migrants from their homes.
Pastor Abraham Barberi, founder of One Mission Ministries provides humanitarian efforts, such as providing water and portable toilets for the migrant camp which is just a short walk from the international bridge to Brownsville. Those in the camp look to Barberi for direction, while government officials want him to convince asylum seekers to turn back.
Texas Standard intern Patrick M. Davis met Barberi reporting his feature on has the end of Title 42 affected asylum seekers. See his story here: https://txst.us/3P0tj5t
Cormac McCarthy notoriously rarely gave interviews.
As a result, much of the public has never heard the voice of the celebrated novelist, who died Tuesday at the age of 89.
But ahead of the release of his Texas-set “All the Pretty Horses” in 1992, McCarthy sat down to have lunch with New York Times journalist Richard Woodward in El Paso. The result was a 4-hour recording that Woodward used for an article that was instrumental in helping McCarthy achieve the fame that followed him the rest of his life.
The recording is now housed as part of McCarthy’s archives at the @wittliff.collections at Texas State University. This is just a brief excerpt of that conversation, courtesy of the Wittliff.
Steve Davis, literary curator at the Wittliff, spoke on meeting McCarthy when staff traveled to the writer’s adobe mansion in Santa Fe to pick up the collection:
“You know, he would speak in a very courtly southern Tennessee accent, and he had very good manners. He served us coffee. He was very gentlemanly. At the same time, you could see the undercurrent of somebody who had really grappled with very deep questions about life and death.”
Listen to more from our interview with Davis, where we discuss McCarthy’s legacy and deep Texas ties, following the link in our bio.
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What is doom metal? Darkwave? Drone and ambient metal? An Oblivion Access genre guide
Kurt Cobain’s friend Dylan Carlson helped birth an entire new genre of music in 1993 with his band Earth’s album “Earth 2.” The album takes the distortion, atmosphere and amplification of metal and pairs it down to its barest element: the riff, and the riff alone.
Earth plays “Earth 2” in full at the 2023 Oblivion Access music festival in Austin. Learn more about the types of bands you'll hear in this video, and learn more about the fest here: https://txst.us/OblivionAccess2023
