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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deaf dancer Shaheem Sanchez changes how Dulé Hill thinks about dance. Shaheem Sanchez is showing the world that the “deaf can dance.” Dulé Hill learns how Shaheem taught himself to dance after going ...

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 ...

A 12-year-old dancer is inspiring the next generation of deaf youngsters that they can follow their dreams. Erin Williamson, who attends St Joseph’s High School in Horwich, has bilateral hearing loss ...

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 ...

Lucy Howard-Karp, 17, prefers to dance without shoes. Like many teenagers, music plays a crucial part of Howard-Karp’s life. “I listen to music all the time,” she says. But Howard-Karp, who is Deaf, ...

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