“When I was a child,” recalls D.C.-based choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess, “I asked my mother about the scars on her hands and she answered simply, ‘I picked pineapples as a child and carried 50-pound bags out of the field.’”
This explains, in part, why the topic explored in “Seeds of Toil: Three Asian American Stories of Resistance and Resilience” is “enormously personal” to Burgess, whose family immigrated to Hawaii in 1903 on the steamship Gaelic.
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