Event

Asian America Across the Disciplines Series Spring 2021 presents Asian American Cinema and other Cultural Movements in conversation with Phil Chan, Director of Programming for IVY.

Phil Chan is a co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, and most recently served as the Director of Programming for IVY, connecting young professionals with leading American museums and performing arts institutions. He is a graduate of Carleton College and an alumnus of the Ailey School. As a writer, he served as the Executive Editor for FLATT Magazine and contributed to Dance Europe Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Business Weekly, and The Huffington Post. He was the founding General Manager of the Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, and was the General Manager for Armitage Gone! Dance and Youth America Grand Prix. He served multiple years on the National Endowment for the Arts dance panel and the Jadin Wong Award panel presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance. He serves on the Leaders of Color steering committee at Americans for the Arts, the International Council for the Parsons Dance Company, and the Advisory Board of Dance Magazine. He is the author of Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing between Intention and Impact, and a 2020 New York Public Library Dance Research Fellow.

In this lecture, Chan will provide a primer on the complex conversation around authenticity and appropriation through the lens of Asian American media advocacy. Topics will include the history of yellowface on stage and screen, negative stereotyping, Hollywood whitewashing, cultural appropriation, and media activism. We will also be joined by Phil Chan, co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, an organization committed to eliminating outdated and offensive stereotypes of Asians on stage, whose particular focus is ballet companies.

Hosted by ASAM and ASAM 110-301 Asian American Activism.