Sarah Tubert is captain of the National Deaf Volleyball team, which recently won gold at the World Deaf Championships, but athletics isn’t her only talent. Here she performs her ASL translation of “Alexander Hamilton” from the Broadway musical. If you’re a Hamilton fan, you’ll appreciate how she manages to convey the complex verbal syncopations in the rhythm of her delivery—and even if you’ve listened to the song 500 times, you might discover something new in this translation to a visual modality.
September 21, 2016 – 6:00am