Urban Jazz Dance Company

“UNHEARD Deaf Refugees in America” is an 80-minute interdisciplinary dance production based on interviews with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Hoh) refugees. The show fuses together American Sign Language (ASL), film, modern dance, ballet and folk rock to raise consciousness about the plight of Deaf refugees. UNHEARD will be staged on 6 UJDC dancers and premiere at ODC Theater in San Francisco April 2 – 4, 2021 for an audience of 500. Funding from NEFA will support touring costs. On tour, UJDC will serve as artist-activists through access advocacy, language and cultural modeling, and community organizing. The mission of UNHEARD is to effect justice for all refugees.