{"id":793,"date":"2024-07-15T18:15:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T18:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/sightlines\/?page_id=793"},"modified":"2025-01-23T03:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T08:07:21","slug":"remembering-chinatown","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/atlas\/remembering-chinatown\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Tai Soon Burgess: Remembering Chinatown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dana Tai Soon Burgess<\/h1>

Remembering Chinatown<\/h2>
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The video \u201cRemembering Chinatown\u201d is one of the earliest works produced by Dana Tai Soon Burgess after he moved to Washington, D.C., as a young dancer in 1990. Characterized by high-contrast colored filters and fluid movements, it captures the vibrancy of Chinatown\u2019s community and architecture. Since then, Burgess has become an internationally acclaimed figure whose portrait is on display in the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Portrait Gallery. In this chapter, Burgess reflects on the environment and era that inspired the video, which remains a powerful time capsule for himself and the neighborhood he called home.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>