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The Gallaudet Dance Company
The Gallaudet Dance Company is a performing group of approximately 9 dancers. All members of the company are undergraduate or graduate students at Gallaudet University, the world's only accredited liberal arts university for deaf and hard of hearing students. Each dancer's background is different—both in terms of hearing loss, preferred communication mode, secondary school education, and current major field of study as a University student. But all the dancers are excellent communicators. They rely on their vision as their primary mode of communication and communicate through their dancing in a range of styles, including dance that uses American Sign Language as its foundation. Gallaudet University itself is a bilingual community where students, faculty, and staff communicate with each other in both American Sign Language and English. The company is not able to satisfy all of the many requests it receives for two reasons. First, the dancers' primary responsibility is to their liberal arts studies. Secondly, the company is self-sustaining and requires financial support for its performances. For booking information, please click on "Bookings" on the top of the page and for more information on dance techniques for deaf and hard of hearing dancers and/or our teaching methods, click on "Techniques" and/or read article by Dr. Diane Hottendorf and Ms. Sue Gill-Doleac entitled "Deaf Dancers Celebrate 50 Years of Dance! Teaching Dance to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students: The Gallaudet University Way," Dancer Magazine, March 2005, 42 - 45.
National Deaf Dance Academy
The National Deaf Dance Academy (NDDA) offers dance classes to deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing children between the ages of 4 to 12 at the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, Gallaudet University. The academy offers ballet, tap, hip-hop jazz, tumbling, and jazz-funk classes on Friday afternoons.
The academy was established in 1986 by Sue Gill-Doleac, a former Gallaudet Dancer and the assistant director of the Gallaudet Dance Company. The academy runs for eight weeks in the fall and ten weeks in the spring; culminating with a spring dance recital. Currently there are thirty-six students enrolled in the academy.
Photography by Ben Baylor and Gabriella Piazza.
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Previews Fundamental Dance Signs (1991; 21 min.) presents basic dance signs for ballroom dance, ballet, tap, and creative movement. Techniques Contact Us!
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