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“A landmark documentary...delineates how virtuosity becomes identity”
- Debra Cash, NPR/WBUR

Asia Moon

Review (NPR/WBUR)

05/09/11

Other observers have been able to convey hip hop and house dance's enviable virtuosity. But it has took Sally's Sommer's patient commitment to delineate the way virtuosity becomes identity.

NPR/WBUR

Published: May 9, 2001

"Check Your Body at the Door - Rough Cut (54 minutes) Film"
Review by Debra Cash

Winter 1994/1995

Winter 1994/1995
12/01/94

Photo Shoot for Dance Ink featuring Asia Moon, Archie Burnett, Barbara Tucker, Bravo LaFortune and Willi Ninja.

Cindylee “Asia” Moon, moved from Korea to NYC's East Village. Bound by her Korean family’s traditional views about the female roles she rebelled, struggling to define her new Americanized "body and soul." The Salsa and street Hip-Hop bursting out in the lower east side "were the most exciting things I'd ever seen," and Asia immediately started tagging along with friends to clubs when she was about ten years old.