Hyphenated America
Skirball Center for the Performing
Arts
566 LaGuardia Place (Washington
Square South)
8-10pm
FREE
RSVPs for this event are ONLY
ACCEPTED ONLINE visit:
http://www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu/calendar/hyphen
Please PRINT out one
copy of the confirmation email per
RSVP to exchange for tickets at the
Skirball Box Office before the
performance, up to the show time.
For more information visit:
www.apa.nyu.edu.
A/P/A Institute presents the New
York premiere of Hyphen at the New
York University Jack H. Skirball
Center for the Performing Arts.
Known for Asian-inspired works and
visual clarity, the Washington,
D.C.-based Dana Tai Soon Burgess &
Co.’s new work explores “Hyphenated
America.”
“The piece looks at the experience
of being a hyphenated American—Asian
Americans but also other ethnic
Americans and multi-racial
Americans,” says artistic director
and choreographer Dana Tai Soon
Burgess. “Does the hyphen connect or
separate our hybrid identities?
There’s definitely a struggle going
on; commonality is a difficult
process in a multifaceted America.”
Members of the dance company are
Asian American, Latin American,
European and Irish American, and
held discussions about what the
hyphen meant in their lives.
Snippets of these discussions will
be woven into the performance’s
sound design.
The set design
includes short black-and-white “Fluxus
films” by famed video artist Nam
June Paik, a Korean American. Paik
was the founder of video art and the
first Asian American artist at the
heart of the avant-garde Fluxus
movement of the late 1950s and early
1960s, a movement that included Yoko
Ono and John Cage. The works used
for Hyphen are the little-seen early
Paik classics Cinema Metaphysique,
Button Happening, and Hand and Face.
“They resonate with questions about
identity,” says Burgess.
The program also includes Burgess’
Meditations, a work
originally created for Ballet
Memphis, as well as Khaybet,
a solo piece, and Chino Latino,
inspired by the intersection of
Asians and Latinos in Latin and
South America. Visit the company
online at www.dtsbco.com.
Performance will be followed with a
Q&A with Dana Tai Soon Burgess and
Prof. John Kuo Wei Tchen, Founding
Director of the A/P/A Institute at
NYU.
Co-Sponsored by the Asian
American Arts Alliance. Supported by
the Korea Society.
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