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Dance in May: Celebrating the Contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
In May we celebrate the contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to our shared dance heritage. Here are a few inspiring dancers who spent some or all of their careers in the United States and whose perseverance inspired others to dance.
Sun Ock Lee (born January 14, 1943)
Dancer Sun Ock Lee studied traditional Korean dance from the age of nine and relocated to the United States in 1969, forming her company in 1974. In the 1980s she published two volumes about Zen dance and began preserving traditional Korean dance forms.
Li Cunxin (born January 26, 1961)
The story of Chinese-born ballet dancer Li Cunxin is featured in the movie Mao’s Last Dancer (2009). Invited to study in the United States by the Houston Ballet in the 1970s, Cunxin defected and danced with the company for 16 years. After a stint as a stockbroker, he accepted the post of artistic director of the Queensland Ballet in 2012.
Yuriko Kikuchi (1920–2022)
Known simply as Yuriko, the modern dancer survived Wor
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Kei Takei
Kei Takei (武井 慧, born December 30, 1946)[1][2] is a dancer-choreographer and the creator of Moving Earth dance company.
Early years
Born in Tokyo, Takei studied a variety of dance styles including folk dances, ballet, and Japanese classical dance.[3] She arrived in New York from Japan in 1967 for a Fulbright Scholarship at Juilliard School of Music based on the recommendation of Anna Sokolow.[1] In 1969, Takei formed her dance troupe, Moving Earth.[1] She has been the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships (1978 and 1988).[4]
Main work
Her signature work, Light, is an ongoing creation composed of more than 30 parts and spanning 30 years, with the choreographer drawing on both Western dance traditions as well as Japanese dance, martial arts, and theater. Each section of Light has a different theme and are both autonomous and woven into the whole opus and are not necessary performed in chronological order.[5] The parts range from solo performances to works for more than 20
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George Takei
American actor, author and activist (born 1937)
In this Japanese name, the surname is Takei.
George Takei (tə-KAY; born April 20, 1937), born Hosato Takei (Japanese: 武井 穂郷, Hepburn: Takei Hosato), is an American actor, author and activist known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.[1][2]
Takei was born to Japanese-American parents, with whom he lived in Tule Lake Segregation Center during World War II. He began pursuing acting in college, which led in 1965 to the role of Sulu, to which he returned periodically into the 1990s. Upon coming out as gay in 2005, he became a prominent proponent of LGBT rights and active in state and local politics. He has been a vocal advocate of the rights of immigrants, in part through his work on the 2012 Broadway show Allegiance, about the internment experience.[3][4]
Takei spoke both English and Japanese growing up and remains fluent in both languages.[5][6] He has won several awards and accolades fo
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