Antoine Hunter, Purple Fire Crow
Purple Fire Crow
Choreographer and Humanity Advocate
Oakland, California

Photo by Mark Kitaoka.
Oakland native Antoine Hunter, aka Purple Fire Crow, is an award-winning, internationally known Black, Indigenous, Deaf, and Disabled choreographer, dancer, actor, instructor, speaker, producer, and Deaf advocate. Hunter creates opportunities for Disabled, Deaf, and hearing artists; produces Deaf-friendly events; and founded the Urban Jazz Dance Company in 2007 and the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival (BAIDDF) in 2013. Awards include the 2022 Disability Futures Fellowship, 2021 Dance Teacher Award, 2019 National Dance/USA Fellowship recognized by the Mayor of Oakland, 2018 inaugural Jeanette Lomujo Bremond Humanity Arts Award, and the 2017 Isadora Duncan (Izzie) for BAIDDF. In response to COVID-19 in July 2020, Hunter founded #DeafWoke, an online talk show that amplifies BIPOC Deaf and Disabled stories as a force for cultural change.
Donor -Antoine Hunter's Fellowships have been funded by the Rainin Foundation, Ford and Mellon Foundations, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 09.05.2024