Speaking Vibrations
Projection stage design, experimental video, projection art and creative captioning
Toured nationally, funded by the Canada Arts Council.
Great Canadian Theatre Company, 2022
Halifax Fringe Festival, 2023
Edmonton Theatre Festival, 2024
“Speaking Vibrations is a multidisciplinary devised performance made by four artists with an extensive range of skills and artistries. One thing that strikes me so distinctly about this piece is its generosity. The pace allows us to wade in slowly. The production functions like poetry rather than narrative; each line, each gesture, illuminating an idea and building to something greater. There is a show happening for a Deaf audience and there is a show happening for a hearing audience and they are the same show. This integration is unusual. It is a vision of a more equitable, beautiful and interrelated world. May this vision and interrelatedness inspire us all.” – Sarah Kitz, Artistic Director, Great Canadian Theatre Company (2022)
Speaking Vibrations is a unique, style-defying, multi and inter-disciplinary/lingual/cultural/sensory performance collective made up of Deaf and hearing artists.
We practice and perform in 10+ different genres such as: ASL song/poetry, visual vernacular, signed music, spoken word, rap, song, stepping, body percussion, rhythm tap and contemporary dance. We use innovative technology, video/media art, stage and sound design to create accessible, inclusive and immersive performance experiences.
Our mission: to promote and encourage collaboration across disciplines, between cultures, and among Deaf, hearing and disability communities; to broaden access and create spaces where diverse audiences can experience performance art together; and to inspire a vision of a more equitable world
Speaking Vibrations has been nominated and granted several awards. In September 2023, we won the April Hubbard Creative Access Award (Halifax Fringe Festival). In May 2023, we won the Corel Endowment Fund for the Arts Award (Ottawa Arts Council). We were nominated for Best Direction (Jacqui Du Toit, Pamela Witcher) and Best Design (David Bobier, Jim Ruxton, Jesse Stewart at the 2022 Prix Rideau Awards). In 2021, we won Outstanding Ensemble Performance at the Ottawa Fringe Festival.
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Featured image credits to Andrew Alexander
