Acclaimed choreographer and dancer Chris Fonseca found fame when his audition for BBC reality show The Greatest Dancer went viral. The YouTube video in which he pops, locks, tuts and emits a beaming positivity has been viewed almost 2.4 million times. Why did it cause such a response with viewers? As a Deaf artist, he put on this extraordinary performance without being able to hear the music, but rather “feeling it” instead.
That was in 2019, and a lot has happened since then. The past three years have been a process of coming to terms with himself. Now Fonseca (who always capitalises the D in Deaf) has collected some of his experiences into Follow the Signs, a hip-hop gig theatre show at Soho Theatre.
