Amar Ramasar, one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers nowadays, was quoted as saying:
In the first, Asian and Asian-American dancers based in New York will perform brief solos and duets on a platform encircled by colleagues and audience members.
The benefit, from 7 P.M. to midnight, will feature performances by Asian dancers and musicians at Bridgewaters in the South Street Seaport.
Ramasar is one of the few Asian American professional ballet dancers nowadays.
Nina Rajarani, MBE, is an award-winning South Asian dancer and choreographer and winner of The Place Prize 2006.
Mr. Maddin has added an interesting twist to the Count's outsider status by casting an Asian dancer (Zhang Wei-Qiang) as Dracula.
The show pumps our patriotic biceps with an American flag, then flaunts the carnage of war using a veteran's flashback and an Asian dancer in white.
Mr. Kubo, he said, is a fine dancer from among the promising young Asian dancers now coming into their own, but he is simply "too small" for the standards of the art.
