Interviews/Reviews
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In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Dance Magazine spoke with six Asian Americans working in the dance industry. This group is a small representation of the rich diversity within the dance field’s Asian-American community. Here are their reflections on their lives as Asian Americans working in dance and their hopes for an inclusive future.
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Seeing someone like me could shift your views about what’s possible. It’s about childhood innocence and imagination and I think that’s why people connect to it. But that’s not a reason it doesn’t need to keep evolving and progressing as a piece of art. Because it is maybe the only time people experience ballet, I think it’s important to be having these conversations about the impacts of the portrayal of people and the stories it is telling.
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Walsh sees a message in "An American in Paris" as freshly potent. "One of the characters," she says, "has a line: 'If you can make the world a better place, why would you withhold that?' The world right now is so dark. But we still have to find what is precious and worth fighting for."
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Hickey doesn’t call Walsh to dance the most spectacular Swan Lake (which she certainly could) because it would distract from the anticipation and tension of the scene. The ballet is a prime example of how the choreography in Anastasia serves the story without overwhelming it.
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But just being in New York, I was able to also do a TV show (Starz’s limited series ‘Flesh and Bone’) while I was there. I finished off the Broadway run of this, and then I was in the original cast of ‘Anastasia’ on Broadway. And I left that to come out on tour to be Lise. So, I’ve had an incredible opportunity in New York, and it was really all because of this show. I had never even realized that I could do musical theater and how much I would love it and love being a part of this community.