Getting dressed - Dance films for young people with audio description by young people too!

How many ways can you wear a pair of socks? How many t-shirts can you put on? What’s the bounciest, swirliest outfit you can wear?
Children aged 2-7 and their grown-ups are invited into a world of swirling skirts, sashaying socks, glitter ball jackets and tumbling t-shirts. 

The Getting Dressed films are a series of five short dance films that transform everyday clothes into celebrations of our individuality.  

Created by Second Hand Dance, pioneers in screen dance for young audiences, the films are based on the company’s live show Getting Dressed (which toured from 2017-19).

Each of the Getting Dressed films has recorded audio description written and presented by young people with assistance from Audio describer Jenny Cosgrove-Stuart.

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was joined again by Rosie Heafford, Artistic Director of Second Hand Dance to firstly find out a bit of background to the company and then on to the Getting Dressed films with audio description.

Rosie then told Toby about where the idea for the Getting Dressed films came from and how both Rosie and Jenny worked with the young people on the writing, presentation and recording of the audio description for the films.

The interview also included a short clip from Chaos one of the Getting Dressed films with fantastic description by one of the young people.

The getting Dressed films with AD are available to watch online and are also being shown with workshops at a couple of venues during February and more details about the screenings with links to where you can see the films online along with more about Second Hand Dance can be found by visiting the following website-

https://www.secondhanddance.co.uk

Image: Second Hnad Dance Logo