{"id":3564,"date":"2022-03-01T15:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T15:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2024-09-04T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:51:49","slug":"inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month-march-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2022\/03\/01\/inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month-march-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month &#8211; March 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2022\/03\/Chris-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3566\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On 3 March it is World Hearing Day and with that in mind we have chosen Chris Fonseca as our Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris is a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher and deaf ambassador. He specialises in Urban dance technique and works extensively across the UK and overseas \u2013 receiving both international invitations and commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris drew early inspiration from the actor Michael \u2018Boogaloo Shrimp\u2019 Chambers and Old Skool dance techniques such as Electric Boogaloo, Popping, locking and B-Boying. Whilst attaining his degree in Graphic Communication, Chris was a founding member of Def Motion, an all-deaf dance group affiliated to Deaffest \u2013 the UK\u2019s annual Deaf Film Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then Chris has been involved in a variety of endeavours. In 2012, Chris appeared in the London Paralympics opening ceremony showcasing his talents as an accomplished dance artist and creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other achievements have included \u2013 The Black Collective: Black History Month, Smirnoff\u2019s Keep it Moving campaign, LinkedIn\u2019s Chase the Great campaign, SKY1\u2019s what\u2019s up TV, BBC\u2019s the One Show, BBC Three\u2019s Amazing Human JBL: Sound to See campaign, BBC\u2019s The Greatest Dancer, Blue Peter and touring the UK with the Wind in The Willows musical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about Chris see here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisfonsecadancer.com\/home\">https:\/\/chrisfonseca.co\/about<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about World Hearing Day see here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-hearing-day\/\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/campaigns\/world-hearing-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 March it is World Hearing Day and with that in mind we have chosen Chris Fonseca as our Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month. Chris is a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher and deaf &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability","category-inspirational-diversity-champion-of-the-month"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}