Audio Described Ballet & Touch Tour for blind and low-vision patrons

Royal New Zealand Ballet’s 2018 Ryman Healthcare Season of The Nutcracker includes audio described performances for blind and low-vision audience members.

The Nutcracker’s national tour offers free touch tours before each audio described performance, where audiences go backstage, touch costumes and props, and learn more about the production. RNZB Dance Educator Lucy Marinkovich explains ballet terminology, and the shapes and quality of movements in The Nutcracker.

RNZB Touch Tour and Audio Described Performance. Photography: Stephen A’Court.

RNZB Touch Tour and Audio Described Performance. Photography: Stephen A’Court.