{"id":122345,"date":"2019-02-28T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=122345"},"modified":"2021-02-10T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T14:07:55","slug":"video-talent-and-creativity-take-the-stage-for-sangai-asia-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/28\/video-talent-and-creativity-take-the-stage-for-sangai-asia-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Student talent and creativity take the stage on Sangai Asia Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVisibility matters,\u201d said Sukanya Shukla \u201920 of Dehradun, India. \u201cVisibility validates our presence on this campus. That\u2019s really important, for people of color to come forward and show their talents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bates students\u2019 talent and creativity were on full display at Sangai Asia Night, an annual celebration of the multitude of Asian and Asian American cultures represented at Bates.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009779;\"><em>Video by Theophil Syslo.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2019 Sangai Asia Night\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ws5iOHXmamE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 25 in the Schaeffer Theatre, students drew from Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean cultures, with performances ranging from songs by college\u2019s taiko and gamelan ensembles to a hip hop dance number.<\/p>\n<p>Shukla was part of a group that performed a Bollywood-inspired dance. She said performers can be nervous before the show, but \u201conce it starts we all lose that fear, and we\u2019re just dancing and enjoying it. I think that\u2019s the reason why our performances every year go so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark Su \u201922, Wanyi Lu \u201919, and Yichun Liu \u201921 performed the instrumental song \u201cLaputa: Castle in the Sky,\u201d from the Japanese film of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing all the Asian cultures come together and celebrate each other\u2019s art was an amazing experience,\u201d Su, of Beijing, said. \u201cI\u2019m just excited to do my part in making this already amazing repertoire even better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSeeing all the Asian cultures come together and celebrate each other\u2019s art\u201d \u2014 that&#8217;s Sangai Asia Night at Bates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1016,"featured_media":122546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"Bates News","_estimated-read-time":"","_post-template":"\/usr\/local\/webserver\/webpve\/htdocs\/new-www.bates.edu\/wp-content\/themes\/b\/news\/single-big-header-image.php","_header-color":"#000000","_photo-credit":"","_header-effect":"parallax","override_related_with_tag":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,133,11012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122345"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123225,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122345\/revisions\/123225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}