Opera and dance audio description

A great deal of guidance regarding audio description for opera is related to best practices for the development of audio description for theatre. The same best practices apply to audio description for dance, which the authors integrate with the use of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS) as a framework for observing dance and crafting dance description. This paper will provide an overview of best practices in the development and delivery of audio description for opera and dance. It is a collection of best practices as developed over several decades of practical experience with description for opera and dance as well as other performing arts description techniques.