Mona Jean Cedar
Aesthetic interpreter
RID Certified ASL Interpreter, over 25 years of experience
AA – Dance; AS – ASL Interpreting; BS – Deaf Studies / Focus on Performance
Who We Are
As your Interpreter Ms. Cedar will create the best aesthetic solution for your project!
That artistic production you’ve poured your heart into, surrounded it with the most creative types you know and want it, needs it, to be interpreted deserves to have an interpreter who is an artist too.
You don’t want an agency sending the first generic interpreter that answered their mass email request (that’s what they do) to show up with their obligatory boring black uniform, with no knowledge of the aesthetics of your event, to be pasted onto your work of art.
What you deserve is an artist, familiar and experienced in the aesthetics of your art genre with the sensitivity and creativity to provide an asset, an added level of art – visually and communicatively to enhance your precious production – not to distract from it.
Mona Jean Cedar has a deep well of experiences and an extensive educational pedigree to provide the complimenting aesthetic your project is worthy of. Let her help you design the approach to incorporating the interpretation layer best suited. It gives Ms. Cedar great joy to collaborate with fellow artists on cool and prestigious projects! 5, 6, 7, 8 - Let’s create!
Interpreting Services
Ms. Cedar can accommodate all your interpreting needs across a wide variety of settings. Her knowledge ensures ethically appropriate consulting and training.
She can also assist in coordinating needed teams and if necessary, procuring any CDI’s. Most importantly, affordable rates will always be quoted.
THEATER: Musical, Cabaret, A Chorus line, Ragtime, SpongeBob, Shakespeare, 12th Night, MidSummer Nights Dream.
EDUCATIONAL: K-12, Community Colleges, Universities, Architecture, Art / Design and Fashion.
DANCE: Dance DTLA, Blue 13, Invertigo, Heidi Duckler.
POETRY: National Poetry Slams, Women of the World Slam, Individual Slams,Toronto—Voices of Today.
POLITICS: Democratic Convention, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, Pete Bouddiged.
EVENTS: Women’s March, 2020—100,000 ppl, Los Angeles NYE 50,000 ppl.
CELEBRETIES: Elon Musk, Snoop Dog.
Pilates For Interpreters
As sign language interpreters, our bodies are our instruments necessary to perform; therefore, we must keep them healthy, flexible,and strong. The very act requires the arms to be held aloft, most often sitting, continuously; and, if done improperly, injure will occur; repetitive incorrectness worsens already weak situations.
By applying these kinesthetically sound principles of Pilates to custom design exercises for the specific muscle groups involved in the act of interpreting such as arms, neck, shoulders, wrists, hands, etc. as well as our ever important core muscles, one is able to maintain the body’s capacity to interpret over extended periods of time.
Appropriate alignment, awareness of breath, and the precise control of muscle movement will augment the body’s natural resiliency to ensure us to become more proficient and efficient in performing our tasks. An enlightened relationship with the body reaps holistic benefits.
What’s Pilates
Pilates is the highly acclaimed physical fitness system
Mona Jean Cedar’s extensive dance background was the perfect foundation for her transition into the Pilates technique. She now proudly holds Comprehensive Certification with Body Arts and Science Inc. Her years of teaching dance to a wide variety of disabled dancers gave her the insight and experience to work with differently abled bodies. Pilates for Interpreters offers both workshops and master classes as well as private sessions. These classes present the history and philosophy of Pilates for a comprehensive understanding of the value Pilates has to offer. Unique, specifically designed exercises, most incorporating the use of athletic stretch bands, are analyzed, broken down and. demonstrated for clarity Time is devoted for participants’ practical practice with individual guidance.
Ms. Cedar is available for private one-on-one coaching and training – live and virtual. She will evaluate your present physical condition and create personalized Pilates exercises to address your needs.
It gives Mona Jean great joy to be able to share this deeply beneficial knowledge with her fellow interpreters!
