Audio Described & ASL Performances
ASL & Audio Description for Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet
Smuin’s annual holiday extravaganza returns for the 2024 edition, the 30th year we’ve presented our popular seasonal celebration.
Audio Description for The Christmas Ballet – Wednesday, December 18, at 2:00 pm
There will be Audio Description, as well as a pre-show Haptic Access Tour, at the performance on Wednesday, December 18, at 2:00 pm.
ASL for The Christmas Ballet – Saturday, December 21, at 7:30 pm
There will be an ASL interpreter for the entire performance on Saturday, December 21, at 7:30 pm.
Purchase Tickets
Smuin Box Office a 415-912-1899
Or email at boxoffice@smuinballet.org
Short Show Description
Haptic Access Tour
Arrive by 12:45 pm on Wednesday, December 18, for a 15 minute live pre-show tour that allows patrons to experience—through touch and their own movement— the space, performers, costumes, and objects in addition to key movement elements in the performance. Patrons should gather in the lobby of the Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA at 12:30 pm. The haptic access tour will begin at 12:45 pm.
About the Program
It wouldn’t be the holidays without Smuin’s annual run of The Christmas Ballet. From the classical first act to the “Cool Yule” of the second, make your spirits bright with this big-hearted production. New additions this year choreographed by Artistic Director Amy Seiwert, Company Artist Brennan Wall, and Alum Rex Wheeler keep Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet evergreen.
For more information, to book a spot in a Haptic Access Tour, or to reserve a headset please call: 415-912-1899
Note to group organizers: We currently have a total of 20 headsets available. We recommend that you ask people to reserve them. To date we have not had more AD users than we could accommodate. If you believe that you will have more AD users than this (i.e. you are working with a school group or organization) please let us know ASAP. We can purchase more receivers and headsets, but it takes up to a week for us to receive shipment.
Date and Time
For Audio Description: 12/18/2024 2:00 PM to 10/20/2024 4:00 PM
For ASL: 12/21/2024 7:30 PM to 10/18/2024 9:30 PM
Show Length
The show is 2 hours long and 3 and a half hours long if you join for the Haptic Access Tour on Wednesday, December 18.
Location of event
Blue Shield of California Theater at YBCA
700 Howard Street, San Francisco, California 94103
Contact
For more information, please contact the Smuin Box Office at 415-912-1899.
Gravity Access Service
The audio described performance is possible through a partnership with Gravity Access Services.
Your Gravity Audio Describer is
Rachael Dichter
About Audio Described Performances
For blind and visually impaired audience members, Smuin Contemporary Ballet partners with Gravity Access Services to offer live audio description and haptic access tours for selected performances. Audio description is a live audio track spoken by a professional audio describer to audience members with visual impairments through a wireless headset system. It provides clear and engaging descriptions of the meaningful visual details of a performance. Haptic access tours (20-30 minutes) are a live pre-show tour that allows patrons to experience—through touch and their own movement— the space, performers, costumes and objects in addition to key movement elements in the performance.
Your ASL Interpreters are
Pilar Marsh and Cathleen Riddley