Max Greyson

This masterclass will be an exploration of identity by description. We pose ourselves the question: how does describing something or someone affect our own identity? How does describing invoke speech, sound and movement? How does a description become a bridge for communication, a two-way connection, a collective awareness of the physical presence? The methods and tools used during the masterclass are based on the ArtInAD research project, in which Max Greyson developed different ways to artistically integrate audio description for dance and theatre.

Max Greyson (1988) is a poet, theater writer and spoken word performer from Antwerp, Belgium. He is an artistic member of the Un-Label Performing Arts Company, which produces international dance theatre productions. A year after, his debut collection of poems Madness doesn’t settle was published. In 2019 his second collection of poems Et alors came out and in 2021 he presented his novel debut A probable coïncidence, all published by De Arbeiderspers. Max Greyson is the artistic director of ARType vzw, an organization that features the music theatre collective Voyeurs. Their second music theatre production Voyeurs in BXL premiered in 2019. As from 2019 he holds a position as artistic researcher at the Antwerp Royal Conservatoire. His project ArtInAD is an artistic research project for integrated audio-description for the blind and visually impaired in music theatre.

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