Saturday: Dance Workshop with Sunshine 2.0
Sunshine 2.0 will teach a dance workshop: Sign Dance Movement!
Age range: middle school and up
Sunshine 2.0 is a professional traveling theater troupe based at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) in Rochester, New York. The troupe travels to public schools, schools for the deaf and hard-of-hearing students, colleges, or civic group venues and offers performances and activities that highlight STEM fields and other educational topics through the arts. Our performances are accessible to all audience members and cover subjects for people of all ages. Using unique approaches to theater and dance, Sunshine 2.0 develops programs, workshops, and performances featuring materials that provide educational content and demonstrate the special quality of the performing arts in Deaf theater, while introducing audiences to the experiences of Deaf people.
Its current company members are Shiann Cook, Tyler Fortson and Zain Ahmed.
