Wake Up Your Senses — Circus Performance for Sensory-Impaired Children
By Gidon Belmaker, Epoch Times Staff Jan 6, 2011
NEW YORK—Franklin Kocheran exclaimed, “I liked the acrobats!”
The eight-year-old boy voiced his preference after attending a circus performance at the Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center. Normally, this would not be a surprising statement coming from a child after a circus show. Kocheran, however, could not actually see the flips, somersaults, or human towers that had been performed.
The Big Apple Circus put on a free show, called the Circus of the Senses, for children with sensory impairments from the New York Metro area on Wednesday.
Sign language interpreters narrated the show for those members of the audience who could not hear the host introducing the performers or the loud music coming from the speakers. For the visually impaired, on the other hand, a play-by-play account of the performance was offered through an audio broadcast.
The show is a way to bring the circus to people who might not otherwise experience it, said Guillaume Dufrensnoy, artistic director of the Big Apple Circus.
read more at: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/48744/
NEW YORK—Franklin Kocheran exclaimed, “I liked the acrobats!”
The eight-year-old boy voiced his preference after attending a circus performance at the Damrosch Park in Lincoln Center. Normally, this would not be a surprising statement coming from a child after a circus show. Kocheran, however, could not actually see the flips, somersaults, or human towers that had been performed.
The Big Apple Circus put on a free show, called the Circus of the Senses, for children with sensory impairments from the New York Metro area on Wednesday.
Sign language interpreters narrated the show for those members of the audience who could not hear the host introducing the performers or the loud music coming from the speakers. For the visually impaired, on the other hand, a play-by-play account of the performance was offered through an audio broadcast.
The show is a way to bring the circus to people who might not otherwise experience it, said Guillaume Dufrensnoy, artistic director of the Big Apple Circus.
read more at: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/48744/
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