Embedding audio description into the creative process and performance.

An accessible and inclusive session.

Join Stuart Waters https://www.head-on.co.uk and Willie Elliott http://wevoices.co.uk for an online workshop, where you will be introduced to how Stuart and Willie began a journey in 2021 into embedding audio description from the outset of a creative process for performance and touring. This covers research, creation and performance stages of the creative process.

They will both co-lead the workshop, sharing their practice from touring work, A Queer Collision, https://www.head-on.co.uk/a-queer-collision

The workshop will involve listening, watching, and experimenting with embedding audio description yourself. It will include fun tasks, sharing experiences, and a Q&A session. The aim is to introduce a different relationship to access and encourage you to adapt and rethink your approaches. They will share what they chose at the time of creation, but audio description offers many other possibilities. This is an opportunity to play and think differently about it.

Monday 16th March 2026

Workshop schedule

The workshop will take place on Teams, with plenty of screen breaks and time to work creatively away from the screen. Please arrive having had lunch.

1pm - 1:45pm: Welcome, check in and introduction to Stuart and Willie, their practices and sharing of A Queer Collision.

1:45 - 2pm: Break

2pm - 2:50pm: Willie Elliott will lead an introduction to audio description practical workshop and tasks. This part of the workshop will close with a conversation held by Stuart.

2:50pm - 3pm: Break

3pm - 3:45pm: The final practical experience of embedding audio description led by Stuart and Willie.

3:45pm - 4:15pm: Q&A and check out

Suggested Pay What You Can - £25

Once registered, we will send you the Teams Meeting Link

We welcome deaf, disabled, neurodivergent people, and access service providers like audio describers and BSL interpreters to attend. You don’t have to be an artist. Your lived experience will help us improve access, develop current methodologies, and continue the conversation.

Questions? Contact rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk

Thanks in advance for joining us!