Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at George Washington University was awarded the 9th Annual Metro DC Dance Awards for "Outstanding New Choreography" for his multi-media dance entitled Hyphen. This dance premiered at GWU's Lisner Auditorium last October to critical acclaim "In the 16 years since he founded his company here, Burgess has emerged as the area's leading dance artist, consistently following his own path and producing distinctive, well-considered works." The Washington Post
This prestigious award is chosen through an adjudicated panel of dance experts and is the highest award in the DC region for dance. The Metro DC Dance Award was presented on the evening of September 14, 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Burgess's Hyphen is a multi-media dance work including projections by video visionary Nam June Paik. This work was toured by the US State Department to South America this summer and also was presented in NY at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. It deals with contemporary American identity and the concept of how we as hyphenated Americans, for example, Asian and American, Latino and American, view identity in a multi-faceted cultural landscape. Hyphen will be presented again in DC on Oct 9-11 at the Dance Place in NE, DC 202-269-1600.
The Metro DC Dance Awards is a spectacular event celebrating the excellence of Metropolitan DC, Maryland, and Virginia's dance community. It showcases the diversity of DC's finest with performances ranging from tango to tap to modern dance, and gives distinction to artists in thirteen categories - including Outstanding Youth Performance, Emerging Choreographer, and Outstanding New Choreography. The Metro DC Dance Awards is the only annual opportunity in Metropolitan DC for artists and audiences to recognize professionals and youth in the dance field.
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