Dancing between intent and impact
Final Bow for Yellowface
Client Phil Chan, Final Bow for Yellowface
Studio Kudos Design Collaboratory
CD John Kudos
Design Ashley Wu
Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing Between Intent and Impact by Phil Chan and Michele Chase explores racism and representation on the ballet stage and beyond.
Phil Chan, arts advocate and co-founder of the Final Bow for Yellowface Pledge, chronicles his journey navigating conversations around race, representation, and inclusion arising from issues in presenting one short dance—the Chinese variation from The Nutcracker. Armed with new vocabulary, he recounts his process and pitfalls in advising Salt Lake City’s Ballet West on the presentation of a lost Balanchine work from 1925, Le Chant du Rossignol.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Social Justice, Representation, Race, Ballet
