shannon brooks

access work

Accessibility is an integral part of my creative practice.To me, access as a creative force that transforms time, space, and power structures.

I love working with individual people, collaborative groups, and large organizations to help make their life or work more creativly accessible. Email me to start a conversation or to ask about my rates at: shannonlynnbrooks@gmail.com

how can we work together?

Facilitate movement classes Disabled people with specific focus on creative movement for Blind/Visually Impaired people.
Audio Describe live and documented performances with specific focus on dance and movement.
Consult and train movement/dance facilitators on cultivating a more accessible practice.
Access consultations for spaces, artistic organizations, individual people and small groups.
Program accessible multimedia events.

more about me

Shannon has over ten years actively working with other Disabled people to create more accessible creative practices. They are a founding organizer of Hook&Loop, a collective of Disabled artists in Philadelphia and their digital archive UNDUE BURDEN. Through this network, Shannon programs countless accessible events, provides access consultations and facilitates accessible movement classes. Their work as an accessibility organizer has been published or shown through Yale Accessibility Symposium, WHY, and Theater Journal, and Philadelphia Death and Art Festival.

Shannnon trained in Audio Description and Self-Audio Description through Krishna Washburn at the Darkroom Ballet and the Audio Description Learning Network, with a focus on the embodied experience in description, the haptic sense, and decentralizing sight in creative practices and facilitation. They are a returning faculty member at The DarkRoom Ballet and host open movement classes through TechOWL that focus on accessible open movement, our senses, and play. Most recently, Shannon received AD coach from Simon Bonenfont to script and perform live Audio Description for Ninth Planet’s production of The Holy Fool and worked with Nichole Canuso to develop touch-based accessibility and AD for her new piece Lunar Retreat, both premiered Fringe 2026.