MODELS FOR ACCESSIBLE CONCERTS (2013-2025)
Medium and Large-Scale Inclusive Concerts in the Dominican Republic:
National Symphony Orchestra, 2013 (La Romana, DR)
Pitbull, 2013 (La Romana, DR)
Coldplay World Tour, 2022-ongoing
Bad Bunny, 2022 (Santo Domingo, DR)
Rosalía, 2022 (La Romana, DR)
Batlle’s engagement with music and the Deaf community began in 2013 making the first concert ever to include a Deaf audience. On May 26, at Altos de Chavón, the National Symphony Orchestra performed as Deaf students placed their hands on the instruments, translating vibration into intimacy; afterward, they signed that it “felt like love.” Months later, at Pitbull’s concert in the same venue, Sign Language interpretation was incorporated for the first time in the country as part of Batlle’s initiatives. Batlle opened that concert with a live drawing performance alongside Deaf students.
From these first ruptures to the integration of accessibility in Coldplay’s global tour a decade later, the project unfolded as a sustained inquiry into how concerts—mass choreographies historically designed through exclusion—could be reimagined as sites of collective access. Here, accessibility is not a technical addition but an aesthetic and political claim: music as a field where disability presence inscribes new ways of belonging.
Exploring sound vibrations and visuals at Marble House Project residency for artists in Vermont, USA | 2013
Deaf students feel the live music of the National Symphony Orchestra | La Romana, Dominican Republic | 2013
Deaf students feel the live music of the National Symphony Orchestra | La Romana, Dominican Republic | 2013
Deaf students feel the live music of the National Symphony Orchestra | La Romana, Dominican Republic | 2013
Deaf students feel the live music of the National Symphony Orchestra | La Romana, Dominican Republic | 2013
Exploring feeling sound vibrations with SubPac technology which transfers low frequencies directly to the body creating a physical experience of music | Hogar del Niño, School for the Deaf | La Romana, Dominican Republic | 2013
Exploring feeling sound vibrations with SubPac technology which transfers low frequencies directly to the body creating a physical experience of music | Hogar del Niño, School for the Deaf | La Romana, Dominican Republic | 2013
Exploring feeling sound vibrations with SubPac technology which transfers low frequencies directly to the body creating a physical experience of music | Hogar del Niño, School for the Deaf | La Romana, Dominican Republic | 2013
First silent disco in the Caribbean designed for a Deaf audience | Juanillo Festival 2016 | Cap Cana, Dominican Republic
As a result of Batlle’s decade-long work developing inclusive concerts, Coldplay’s show marked the first large-scale inclusive stadium event in the Dominican Republic. The concert incorporated accessibility in both infrastructure and technology, allowing audiences to not only attend but also feel the music. A sign language interpreter was present throughout the performance, establishing a historic milestone for cultural accessibility in the country.
Priscila dancing to Coldplay wearing the SubPac technology which transfers low frequencies directly to the body creating a physical experience of music.
The concert incorporated accessibility in both infrastructure and technology, allowing audiences to not only attend but also feel the music. A sign language interpreter was present throughout the performance, establishing a historic milestone for cultural accessibility in the country.