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Fusion: Edward Dizon
Click on the links below to hear audio segments from an April
2007 interview by Armand Venenciano
with Edward
Dizon, who is the director
of Fusion Dance team.
Male Fusion Dancers
(Ed Dizon top left)
Past
1. Background and
Childhood
2. Meaning of
Filipino
3. Experiences
in Filipino Culture
4. Have
you been to a PCN before?
5. Have
you recently been to the Philippines?
Background Information on FUSION
8. Promoting
FUSION to the public.
Present
11. Other Schools Benefit from
FUSION
12. FUSION dance team involved with
the Filipino/ Filipino American community?
Future:
15. Filipino-American History?
Segment
1
Background and childhood (1.3 MB Click here for audio file)
Ed talks about life growing up and the differences of Filipino and American
views.
Segment 2
What does it mean to be Filipino? (1.6 MB Click
here for audio file)
One of the hardest questions… Ed talks about
Filipino Flag
Experiences in Filipino Culture (3.6 MB Click here for audio file)
Ed talks about his experiences in Filipino culture.
Segment 4
PCN (Pilipino Culture Night) (216 KB Click here for audio file)
Ed talks about events in PCN
Segment 5
When was the last time you have been to the
Segment 6
Background on FUSION (3 MB Click here
for audio file)
Origins of FUSION.
Segment 7
How did you get into Dancing? (1.8 MB Click here
for audio file)
Dancing as a hobby?
Segment 8
Goals as a Dancer (510 KB Click here for audio file)
Past Goals as a dancer explained.
Segment 9
Promoting FUSION (824 KB Click here for
audio file)
Myspace, e-mail blasts and so-on
Fusion Promoting for Dance Auditions
Fusion at
Look At picture.
Current Dance Classes
Benefiting from FUSION (1.3 MB Click
here for audio file)
If students joined a program
such as FUSION.
Segment 12
Fusion Involved with
Filipino-American community? (3.5 MB Click here for audio file)
Events that relate to
connecting to the Filipino- American Community.
Fiesta Filipina - June 11, 2006
Favorite Food (687 MB Click here for audio file)
Two
types, one of them has to deal with remembering his Auntie
Future Goals for FUSION? (1.7 MB Click here for audio file)
Lots of goals listed in the
interview.
Filipino- American History? (3.0 MB Click
here for more information)
Ed talks about leaving an
imprint, leaving something so that he can be remembered.
Image sources:
Male Fusion Dancers: http://a763.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/53/l_fc739af9e54ceed337758f579cd0e152.jpg
Filipino Flag: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/flags/rp-flag.html
Promoting FUSION: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/NICKELAZZ/may12_flyer_v.jpg
Dance Classes: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v662/holleratchoboy/sfsuflyer3_copy1.jpg
Fiesta Filipina: http://a697.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00839/69/69/839309696_l.jpg
Article:
SF State's FUSION: Fusing Students with
Dance: http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/arts/008327.html
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last revised: 5-30-07
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