“Leaving Pusan” at AAPI Dance Festival Day 1 – NYC
January 11, 2025 | 1:45 pm - 3:30 pm
Join Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company at the Ailey Citigroup Theater on their AAPI Dance Festival performance.
“Leaving Pusan” tells the story of Dana Tai Soon Burgess’s great grandmother’s emotional and physical departure from Korea in 1903 – she voyaged to Oahu, Hawai’i on the first steamship, the Gaelic, that delivered Koreans to work on the sugar cane and pineapple plantations. She worked on the Del Monte plantation her entire life.
Please note this is Day 1 of a two-day festival. Day 2 is on Sunday, Jan 12 from 4:15–6:15pm also at The Ailey Citigroup Theatre.
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Photo by Mary Noble Ours