2009 Best in Dance - Washington Post

"Island" by Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Oct. 9-11 at Dance Place: D.C.-based Burgess employed a cool, stylized touch to conjure the past with piercing immediacy in this evocation of Chinese immigrants at the Angel Island detention center in San Francisco Bay in the early 1900s. - Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post

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