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DESCRIPTION:April 30 at 2pm in Fremont, May 7 at 2pm and 4pm at UC Berkeley, May 14 at 
 4pm in San Francisco\n\nEpiphany Dance Theater presents the world premiere 
 performances of "Native Land, Native Hands," a major site specific work 
 exploring the historic oppression and racial injustice toward Bay Area Deaf 
 communities and communities of color, April 30 in Fremont, May 7 at UC 
 Berkeley and May 14 in San Francisco. "Native Land, Native Hands" is a 
 response to works by celebrated Bay Area Deaf sculptor Douglas Tilden 
 (1860-1935), which have become symbolic of the marginalization and 
 relocation of Deaf and Indigenous people in the Bay Area.\n\n"Native Land, 
 Native Hands" will feature American Sign Language-choreography, other forms 
 of dance, text, and original music and will be performed by a cast of eight 
 Deaf and hearing actors and dancers. It is written and choreographed by 
 African, Indigenous, Deaf, Disabled, Two Spirited lead artist Antoine 
 Hunter, Artistic Director of Urban Jazz Dance Company, with Dramaturgy by 
 Kim Epifano and performed at four sculptures by Tilden in Fremont, UC 
 Berkeley and San Francisco.  Each component will be designed for viewing as 
 either a stand-alone performance or part of a trilogy.\n\nHunter explains 
 the layered controversies represented by Tilden's work and the sites they 
 occupy. The Fremont location of Tilden's Bear Hunt (1892) on the site of 
 the current California School for the Deaf, for example, depicts a bear 
 protecting its cubs by wrestling with two Indigenous people.  Tilden's The 
 Football Players (1898) on the UC Berkeley Campus is the original location 
 of the California School for the Deaf before the land was sold and the Deaf 
 community was systematically pushed out to make way for the university.  
 Tilden's Admission Day (1897) commemorates the admission of California into 
 the United States, and Mechanics Monument (1901) delineated the old 
 shoreline of San Francisco Bay.   Both sculptures survived the 1906 
 earthquake and are now located at the intersections of Market and 
 Montgomery Streets and Market and Bush Streets respectively.\n\nFree\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/03/03/18848379.php
SUMMARY:Epiphany Dance Theater Presents 'Native Land, Native Hands'
LOCATION:California School for the Deaf - Bear Hunt Sculpture\n39350 Gallaudet 
 Drive\nFremont, CA 94538
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/03/03/18848379.php
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