The audiodescription and the visual elements of the spectacle

Abstract

Audio-description (AD) is a resource that is gradually being studied, researched and operationalized in a perspective of cultural inclusion, providing the access and enjoyment of people with disabilities to various cultural products / spaces. Assuming that theater, dance, the visual arts, cinema, circus, performance, television programs, and other cultural goods / products are assets to which everyone must have access; and the questions: how to determine which elements should be prioritized? What to keep and what to suppress in detriment of time? What is the aesthetic function of these audiodescribed elements and how to describe them?; we propose to reflect on the visual elements of the show, their functions and possibilities of verbal translation, thus broadening the understanding of the narrative by visually impaired people. We propose, therefore, notes for the description of the visual elements of the spectacle, making them verbal, using theorists of the scene arts and taking into account the constituent elements of the scene, its multiplicity and complexity.