The company “Dewey Dell” will offer a tactile tour for people with visual impairments on the show “The Rite of the Spring” (Le Sacre du Printemps) that will be presented at Homo Novus Festival in Riga on 29 and 30 August. The tactile tour consists in offering an experience of the show that is mainly through the sense of touch and sound. Different parts of the set, costumes, props and some moments of the musical score will be accessible to be touched or listened to in a safe environment where questions of all kinds are always welcome. The show “The Rite of the Spring”, with the original music by Igor Stravinsky, provides different access to the work, particularly well because the show is made by different scenes, each of them involving costumes resembling insects, flowers, leaves and other elements from the natural kingdom. For this reason, the materials of the costumes, their textures, changes according to the skin or fur or shell of the different insects, plants, flowers, mushrooms that are involved in the plot. The audience will be invited to enter the stage where the company introduces the work and invites them to touch the handcrafted set, then the various costumes in a chronological order in which they appear in the show. The audience will be invited to touch all the props on stage too, while the company describes the many atmospheres that follow within the plot of the work. In certain moments, music will also be played in order to complete the experience of certain scenes and to understand some characters and their story in a better way. The tour is not a show itself, but it is a dialog made with the participants. Both theoretical and practical questions are welcome – questions regarding the show’s plot or the constructions of costumes or set. The tour usually is 20-30 minutes long according to the response and the interaction that there might be with the audience. Often in our tactile tours, we have people with different kinds of physical impairments that could come to the theatre to have a closer contact with what they will see that evening, or with what they have already seen the evening before, to enter a deeper level of involvement in the experience that theatre is. For this reason, we also have many small children coming to these tactile tours. The company “Dewey Dell” wants to thank the Homo Novus Festival for allowing this tour to happen.