From Memoir to Movement with Dana Tai Soon Burgess at Oxford Community Center

The Oxford Community Center (OCC) welcomes internationally acclaimed choreographer, author, and cultural ambassador Dana Tai Soon Burgess and members of the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company, Washington, D.C.’s preeminent contemporary modern dance company, for a unique evening combining conversation, storytelling, literature, and live dance on Friday, October 9 at 5:30 p.m.

The event offers audiences an intimate look inside the life and creative work of one of the nation’s most distinguished choreographers. The Washington Post hails Burgess and his eponymous Company – “not only a Washington prize, but a national dance treasure.” Burgess will discuss his award-winning memoir, Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly, in an onstage conversation with Margaret Andersen. Their discussion will explore Burgess’s remarkable personal and artistic journey, his multicultural heritage, the development of his career, and the experiences that have shaped his choreography. Members of the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company will bring the conversation to life through live dance excerpts of the Company’s signature work, giving the audience an opportunity to see how memory, identity, history, and personal experience are translated into movement.

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