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Urban Jazz Dance Company: GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness In The Bay
CONTENT DESCRIPTION: Facebook image post for GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay. Dark blue background with white text. Two photos are featured: Photo 1: Three dancers on a black stage mid performance. Photo 2: two humans sleeping on the sidewalk under the orange half circle window awnings in front of Glide Memorial Church. One of the sleeping figures is curled up on cardboard in a fetal position. The other person is covered with a white blanket. A third person with long hair, blue jeans, and an olive jacket is walking and reaching into a fanny pack. Text reads: Nov 10-12 Fri & Sat: 7:30 PM Sun: 2 PM Z Space 450 Florida St, San Francisco, CA 94110 Urban Jazz Dance Company Presents: GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay. The letters Deaf are bolded in yellow for emphasis. Urban Jazz Dance Company presents GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay. Urban Jazz Dance Company presents GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay. Compelling work on what it means to be “Houseless in the Bay.” The work presents true stories pulling from interviews with Deaf and Disabled folks experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area. Show is for Hearing and Deaf audiences. Saturday’s performance will be followed by a Q & A Panel joined by representatives from local human agency service organizations who serve these populations. Sliding Scale Tickets $15-$40: Ticket link: zspace.org/urbanjazzdancecompany Logos for the following organizations are featured: San Francisco Art Commission DeafHope Hamilton Families Glide Memorial Church Ford Foundation Zellerbach Family Foundation Intersection for the Arts Fleishhacker Foundation Kenneth Rainin Foundation Grants for the Arts END CONTENT DESCRIPTION
Antoine Hunter/Urban Jazz Dance Company (African, Indigenous, Deaf, Disabled, choreographer) created a one hour and ten minutes raw, compelling work on what it means to be “Houseless in the Bay.” The work presents true stories pulling from interviews with Deaf and Disabled folks experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area.
Performers will use sign language, spoken text, dance (modern, contemporary, and jazz), film, music and silence to look at the lives of Deaf houseless folks: What does it mean to be a Deaf person with no house and/or living in the streets? What about stories of DeafDisabled women of color? In these interdisciplinary works, we explore the tension, perspectives and assumptions of the general public towards unhoused folks. GentriDeafcation: Echoes of Houselessness in the Bay is intended for both Hearing and Deaf audiences. Saturday’s performance will be followed by a Q & A Panel joined by representatives from local human agency service organizations who serve these populations. Urban Jazz Dance Company’s mission through this panel is to educate audiences about the exponential risk of homelessness in our communities in the Bay Area where homelessness is already a growing crisis. Where can you go if you become houseless? See this show to find out! All performances and the panel will be ASL interpreted. Saturday’s performance and panel will also have live captions!
