Community Laboratory for enVISION: Beyond
About this Event
What happens when you experience a performance without sight?
On June 20, ShaLeigh Dance Works invites you inside the creative process of enVISION: Beyond, a disability-led dance-theatre project exploring accessibility as artistic innovation.
As part of this special Community Laboratory, 20 audience members will have the opportunity to participate in a private, one-on-one immersive performance experience. Guided by a trained Movement Mentor, participants will journey through an eight-minute multi-sensory performance using touch, sound, movement, storytelling, and interactive participation.
Together, we are exploring how performance can be experienced beyond vision and how removing barriers can create new possibilities for artists and audiences alike.
The afternoon will also feature an informal toolbox sharing, offering a window into the artistic and accessibility practices informing the work, followed by a disability-led conversation with the artists and access experts helping to shape the project.
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Schedule
2:00–3:00 PM | Private Participatory Audience Experiences
Limited to 20 selected participants. Advance inquiry required.
3:00 PM | Public Work-in-Progress Showing
3:30 PM | Disability-Led Conversation
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Interested in Participating?
Participation in the immersive experience is limited and requires advance registration. Please contact ShaLeigh at [email protected] for eligibility information, accessibility details, and additional information about the experience.
Registration for the public showing and conversation is appreciated, but not required.
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Access information for the Reality Center:
Accessibility: The Reality Center is accessible to wheelchair users. Our team will make every effort to accommodate additional requests when possible. If required, please contact ShaLeigh Comerford at [email protected].
Parking: The Reality Center has a few allotted handicap parking spaces next to a ramped entryway. Parking is available free of charge in their attached parking lot (about 35 spots) to the rear of the building. Additionally there is nearby street parking.
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[ID: Omar González, SDW's longtime violinist and a Panamanian and Puerto Rican musician, performs on a small circular platform while audience participants wearing white eye coverings engage in an immersive multi-sensory experience. In the foreground, DJ Robinson, a Black man and co-director of enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight, sits among the participants within an individual performance station. Translucent panels and long-exposure photography capture layers of movement throughout the space, creating blurred traces of performers moving between audience members. The image conveys enVISION's exploration of perception, sensory awareness, and connection beyond sight.]
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enVISION: Beyond by ShaLeigh Comerford has been made possible in part by the Durham Arts Council’s Annual Arts Fund, an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, New Music USA’s Organizational Fund 2025-2026, the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, the Triangle Community Foundation, South Arts in partnership with the NEA and the N.C. Arts Council, and the ARPA Arts, Culture & Sustainability (AC&S) Stipend Program @Hayti.
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