African American Sign Language in visual theatre

Digital Work

Identifier: ds_0101_mbanks_cap_01.mp4

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"African American Sign Language in visual theatre" on RIT Digital Collections

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Dates

Creation: 1991

Creator

Banks, Michelle (Person)

Summary

Michelle Banks shows a videotape of a performance in African American Sign Language. Following the video, she leads a group discussion focusing on how to use African American Sign Language in theatre and the importance of preserving Black Sign Language or African American Sign Language and Black Deaf culture.

Extent

668.66 Megabytes (mp4)

Language

Sign Languages

English

Additional Description

General Note

This material was digitized as part of a CLIR Hidden Collections grant: "Sculptures in the Air: An Accessible Online Video Repository of the American Sign Language (ASL) Poetry and Literature Collections at the RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive (RIT/NTID DSA) in Rochester, NY." Original VHS recordings were transferred to mp4 format, captioned, and voiced, by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Production Services department.

Processing Information

Dr. Karen Christie, Professor Emerita of NTID, provided accurate sign language transcriptions of this video; voicing from ASL into English was provided by Miriam Lerner, performing arts interpreter. Dr. Christie also prepared the notes and abstract.