Antoine Hunter knows how hard it can be for Deaf performers to be noticed. The choreographer and founder of Real Urban Jazz Dance, who is deaf, spent much of the late-2000s scrolling through MySpace ...

Heather Wagley’s inability to hear hasn’t denied her the joy of dance. Despite losing her hearing as an infant, her mother encouraged her to take up ballroom dancing at age 13 and she’s been tripping ...

Urban Jazz Dance Company has announced the 13th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF), featuring performances and workshops highlighting the artistry and important contributions ...

A collection of interpretive dances based on children’s prose and poetry is featured in a new production by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf’s Performing Arts department at Rochester ...

Urban Jazz Dance Company founder Antoine Hunter Purple Fire Crow, a Bay Area African American, Indigenous, Two-Spirit choreographer, director, producer and advocate, who is deaf, is on a mission to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — A dance troupe right here at home unlike any other. They don’t ask you to listen with your ears. They ask you to listen with your eyes. “I’m deaf and I’m a visual learner,” ...

When Antoine Hunter first launched the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) in 2013, he planted what he calls a small seed. Thirteen years later, he said, “It’s grown into a big redwood ...

Constant bullying and targeting in junior high school drove Antoine Hunter to dark spaces, making him feel suicidal. But a dance class at Oakland’s Skyline High School provided a revelatory experience ...

A Fallen Woman/ Oriental Dancer Off-Broadway The Chief Thing 1963 A Landlady Off-Broadway The Chief Thing 1963 A School Teacher Off-Broadway The Chief Thing 1963 A Slave Girl/ Oriental Dancer ...

Writer, artist and educator Fred Michael Beam will be performing "Black Deaf Male: Who am I?" at this year’s ESL Rochester Fringe Festival. Beam was always fascinated with performing arts as a child.

The Urban Jazz Dance Company presents the 13th Annual Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival, which takes place from August 8 to August 10. The Festival features performances and workshops that ...