About Speaking Vibrations:
ASL poet and storyteller Jo-Anne Bryan, percussive dance artist Carmelle Cachero, literary Hip Hop artist King Kimbit, and contemporary dance artist Jordan Samonas are the creators of Speaking Vibrations.
We are four women from different walks of life, of diverse identities, practices and communities. Our stories are about the tensions between where we are from, where we live, and the languages we speak, sign, or have lost.
Accessibility is our aesthetic:
- We create inclusive, accessible and transdisciplinary performance works.
- We centre Deaf storytelling, performance, and creation methods.
- We combine different styles of performance and storytelling.
- We use innovative and accessible technologies, production methods, stage and sound design.
- We work with ASL interpreters and accessibility consultants.
- We believe that accessibility is a process!
To learn more about this website’s accessibility, click here.
More about Speaking Vibrations:
We won the April Hubbard Creative Access Award at the 2023 Halifax Fringe Festival and the Corel Endowment Fund for the Arts Award (Ottawa Arts Council, 2023). We were nominated for Best Direction (Jacqui du Toit and Pamela Witcher) and Best Design (Vibrotactile Design: David Bobier, Jim Ruxton and Jesse Stewart) at the 2022 Prix Rideau Awards. At the Ottawa Fringe Festival in 2021, we won “Outstanding Ensemble Performance.”
The City of Ottawa, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts have funded and supported our work. We have attracted attention from interviews and reviews with newspaper, radio, magazine and online publications.
To learn more about past performances, click here.
Our Team:
creation/performance | Jo-Anne Bryan, Carmelle Cachero, King Kimbit, & Jordan Samonas
producers | Carmelle Cachero & Jordan Samonas
stage & production manager | Kat Wong
director/dramaturg | Jacqui du Toit
Deaf culture director | Pamela Witcher
lighting design | Emilio Sebastiao
projection & video designer | Lesley Marshall
vibrotactile specialists | David Bobier & Jim Ruxton (VibrafusionLab)
lead interpreter | Marianne Kelly