Skyline College/North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library
Student project for LSCI 110 – Digital Oral Research Project, Skyline College

Fusion: Edward Dizon

Click here to read to read the research essay, “Fusion of two different cultures”, by Armand Venenciano

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)

 

Table of Contents:

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

6. Dancing a hobby?

7. Goals as a Dancer?

8. Promoting FUSION to the public.

9. FUSION established?

Present

10. FUSION at S.F. State.

11. Other Schools Benefit from FUSION

 12. FUSION dance team involved with the Filipino/ Filipino American community?

13. Favorite Filipino Food?

Future:

14. Future Goals for FUSION?

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.

 

 

 

Back to Table of Contents

 

 

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

 

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Segment 3

Experiences in Filipino Culture (3.6 MB Click here for audio file)
Ed talks about his experiences in Filipino culture.

  

     

 

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Segment 4
PCN (Pilipino Culture Night)  (216 KB Click here for audio file)
Ed talks about events in PCN 

 

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Segment 5
Philippines Recently? (545 KB Click here for audio file)
When was the last time you have been to the Philippines?

 

 

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Segment 6
Background on FUSION (3 MB Click here for audio file)
Origins of FUSION.

 

 

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Segment 7
How did you get into Dancing? (1.8 MB Click here for audio file)
Dancing as a hobby? 
 

 

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Segment 8
Goals as a Dancer (510 KB Click here for audio file)
Past Goals as a dancer explained.

 

 

 

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Segment 9
Promoting FUSION (824 KB Click here for audio file)
Myspace, e-mail blasts and so-on

 

 

Fusion Promoting for Dance Auditions

 

 

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Segment 10

Fusion at S.F. State (2.4 MB Click here for audio file)

Look At picture.

 

 

Current Dance Classes

 

Segment 11

Benefiting from FUSION (1.3 MB Click here for audio file)

If students joined a program such as FUSION.

 

 

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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

 

Segment 13

Favorite Food (687 MB Click here for audio file)

Two types, one of them has to deal with remembering his Auntie

 

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Segment 14

Future Goals for FUSION? (1.7 MB Click here for audio file)

Lots of goals listed in the interview.

 

 

 

Segment 15

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.

 

Back to Table of Contents

 

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
by Eric Brenner, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA
These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit the author and cite the source as: North San Mateo County Oral History Archives, Skyline College Library. All commercial rights are reserved. To contact the coordinator, or send comments or suggestions, email: Eric Brenner at brenner@smccd.net