Tanz hören (?) Zur Versprachlichung von Tanz und Musik im Modus der vorproduzierten Audiodeskription

Résumé

In the last two decades, the idea of extensive social participation and empowerment of people with special needs has become increasingly prevalent. In the context of such initiatives, audio description has become a common means of choice to give blind and visually impaired people access to media and performances that are naturally available to members of the sighted majority society. As a physical art, dance itself, although in most cases it is accompanied by music and produces a sound sequence itself, is probably primarily intended for the visual mode of reception. This article is concerned with how the audio description of dance performance recordings takes place and which visual and auditory elements motivate audio describers to use certain linguistic formulations. Approaches to answering the following questions will be presented: Does audio description itself have an aesthetic character in this context, or is it able to add a linguistic aesthetic dimension to the multimodal experience of dance and music? The case study of a French-language audio description of the dance performance Triton by Philippe Decouflé was chosen to provide answers to this question.