My study is composed of three interlocking parts in a sequence that constitutes the practice of ethnography: fieldwork, analysis, and presentation. The foundation for my fieldwork, is an “archeology of the structure of the perceived world” (Merleau-Ponty, 1962), using the holding environment of the rehearsal process and the structural process of an acting technique called Del-Sign. Del-Sign is a fusion acting style that I created by combining American Sign Language and the Delsarte method. I also employed contemporary qualitative methods described as “performance ethnography” (Denzin, 2003; Pelias, 2004). [more]