Antoine Hunter
August 2008 Artist of the Month
“Dancing has shown me that people can reach their dreams, even people with disabilities. Dancing is a way to express oneself. As a deaf person, I have found dance is a way to communicate with both hearing and deaf worlds.”
"Antoine-Devinci Hunter, a native of Oakland, is founder and director of Urban Jazz Dance Company and Iron Triangle Urban Ballet (Richmond). He’s been called “a one-man firestorm.” Last November, he participated in Philadelphia’s Deaf Arts & Culture PaH! Festival. On April 25, he performed in Night of the Stars at the Black Deaf Advocates Eastern Regional Conference organized by Fred Beam. 'It was wonderful!'
His reputation is growing. He has a constantly growing list of dance credits, having performed numerous forms of dance with well-known artists and companies, including Nuba Dance Company, Reginald Ray-Savage and Zafra Miriam/Savage Jazz Dance Company, Ramon Alayo, Robert Moses’ Kin Dance Company, and Ross Dance Company. In September, he’ll be performing with the Sign Dance Collective, the British company that also participated in the Philadelphia festival. He tours with his own company and with others— currently five of them—and teaches children and adults in over 13 locations, 6 days a week, including East Bay Center of the Performing Arts, Dance-a-Vision Entertainment, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Youth in Arts, and Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts. It’s a scrambling, hectic schedule, but he loves what he’s doing—performing and teaching children who otherwise wouldn’t have the benefit of dance classes."
– Deaf Life
To learn more about Antoine and his work, please visit www.antoinehunter.com
