Quest: arts for everyone
WISH LIST: $100: 2 hours of sign language interpreters; $500: Quest performance at a local school; $1,000: 4-day residency by artists and staff for 100 students.
At Quest, inclusive casts and production staff create visual theater so powerful that the spoken word becomes … superfluous. Using mime, gesture, masks, dance, and digital media, what sets this physical theatre company apart is its desire to reach through the barriers of hearing to embrace multicultural and mixed-ability actors and stage crew to share the fact of our common humanity. When the performer’s body, rather than the actor’s voice, becomes the central expressive tool, more work becomes available not only to deaf and hard of hearing performers, but to others whose native language is not English and to individuals who have reading or speaking difficulties. And the experience can be transformative for theatre patrons, students, and community groups as well: when deaf and hearing audience members laugh together, they form a bond that might otherwise never exist. Quest is passionate about enabling marginalized individuals to express themselves, employing people with disabilities, integrating arts into the curriculum, and bringing people together through performance. You can get passionate, too!
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Timothy McCarty President |
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