Flux Fusion

It has been claimed that deaf people could be taught to understand written combinations of symbols by associating them with the things they represented. The first book to teach sign language to deaf people was the manual alphabet published in 1620. Deaf people could communicate with themselves and the hearing world through gestures, hand signs, and fingerspelling. In 1817, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet founded the first school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut. A higher learning for deaf people was at Gallaudet College, in Washington DC. Which today is the only liberal arts college for the deaf in the U.S. and the world.
Columbia College offers you to get a degree in American Sign Language- English Interpretation. I am fortunate in getting a minor in ASL and let me tell you it’s fun but not easy. The ASL department sponsored an event on April 4, 2008 at the Hokin Annex-623 S. Wabash St, Chicago IL 60605. A group called Flux Fusion performed live with dancing and signing pop songs such as memorized and Waiting on the World to Change. Flux Fusion is a younger version of the Wild Zappers. An all deaf group who combines jazz, hip hop, American Sign Language and popular music to inspire and uplifts those of the deaf community who are trying to break the gap between the deaf and the hearing world.
Now just imagine you are deaf. You want to listen to music but you can’t, but you can feel the vibration of the music. That’s exactly how Flux Fusion performs. How they are able to stay on beat is with the rhythm of the vibration. All their acts were amazing. They picked great hits such as Let‘s Get It Started, Touch, Hero and All Night. The choreography wasn’t difficult but not easy. It wasn’t cheesy but had a commercial feel to it and their singing of course was impressive. The group is very diverse. It only consist of four people; two males and two females. One black and Hispanic guy and two white girls. Afterwards they had a Q&A and all of them had always had a passion for dance but never knew how to pursue it because they would never make it in the dance world because their deaf. So one of the guys decided to start a group, Flux Fusion to prove to the hearing that they aren’t any different from them and are capable of doing the same things.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be deaf? How your life would be different? Would society treat you differently? A lot of people mistake deafness as a disability. What is disable about it? Nothing is wrong with them physically, they just cant hear. I don’t like to be treated different even when I can hear and I bet it’s frustrating for the deaf because they are just like any hearing person. Matter of fact sometimes I wouldn’t mind to be deaf for a day to not hear all the drama and bullshit of politics and to be in my own world and to sign with other’s around the hearing because they wouldn’t know whether or not if I’m talking about them!