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 ...

Fred Michael Beam is the deaf performing artist who will sign in ASL alongside Charlie Puth during the National Anthem at Super Bowl LX. The post Fred Beam: Meet the ASL Performer for the Super Bowl ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...