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Antoine Hunter

The Silence: American Sign Language Dance, 2020
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Courtesy of Antoine Hunter, Urban Jazz Dance Company
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Celebrated Bay Area Deaf dancer Antoine Hunter collaborated with acclaimed theater director Ellen Sebastian Chang on the creation of Silence, a dance broken into three parts. His choreography incorporates movements from American Sign Language (ASL), jazz, and modern and classical American dance.

Against an urgent and rhythmic score of cello and violin, Hunter begins with raised arms under a single spotlight, in a gesture of calling in. He takes us on a deeply personal journey into the intensity of his experience. His movements throughout invite us to consider ASL as a form of dance, and dance as a non-verbal and gestural language.
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