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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Constant bullying and targeting in junior high school drove Antoine ...

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 ...

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.

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Urban Jazz Dance Company has announced the 13th ...

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 ...

Beam was always fascinated with performing arts as a child. At 7 years old, Beam remembers watching Michael Jackson dance on "American Bandstand," a music and dance television program that aired until ...

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

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 ...