Professors Dana Tai Soon Burgess and Kelly Southall worked with the DC Mayor's Office on Asian Pacific Islander Affairs to design the first Asian American contemporary Asian American Youth Dance and Arts Program. The students from School Without Walls took weekly dance classes, visited museums and discussed the history of Asia, the Asian American Diaspora and how youth identity today in the APIA community is evolving.
Burgess says, "Dance is a wonderful form of communication which allows young people the opportunity to work together in order to define and find acceptance of their cultural identities in our ever changing American landscape."
Pictured center is Julie Koo the director of the Mayor's Office of Asian Pacific Islander Affairs. Burgess and Southall are in the back row.
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