featured in advertisements for the "New 202" campaign produced by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities to highlight art and culture in the nation's capital. He has been referred to as the "poet laureate of Washington dance". In 2012 he was described as "not only a Washington prize, but a national dance treasure" by Pulitzer Prize winner Sarah Kaufman. Since 2013, Burgess has been the first choreographer-in-residence at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. March 18, 2017 was declared Dana Tai Soon Burgess Day in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A short documentary about Burgess and the dance company, with funding from the Humanities Council DC, called "Passages from the Journey", was premiered online in December 2020. In February, 2021 he received the Aaron Stein Memorial Fund Award from the American Group Psychotherapy Association. Burgess was the 2021 recipient of the Selma Jeanne Cohen Dance Lecture Award, presented by the Fulbright Association. Personal life In 2011, "The Reliable Source" reported that Burgess became engaged to yoga teacher and playwright Jameson Freeman while touring the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The couple married in Santa Fe, New Mexico in September 2015. Freeman won the Democratic primary for the 86th district of the West Virginia House of Delegates in May, 2022. He lost in the general election to the Republican incumbent. References External links Guide to the Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co. and Moving Forward: Contemporary Asian American Dance Company Records, 1988-2012, Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University Interviews: Passages from the Journey, a short documentary about Burgess and DTSBDC Fox 5 Morning CHOREOGRAPHY COMES TO SMITHSONIAN: DANA TAI SOON BURGESS DANCE COMPANY TO INTERPRET PORTRAIT GALLERY’S “THE FACE OF BATTLE" BBC News: Nasa has collaborated with one of America's leading choreographers to create a modern dance about space exploration National Portrait Gallery: Dana Tai Soon Burgess, Smithsonian's First Choreographer-in-residence ARIRANG TV: The INNERview with Dana Tai Soon Burgess National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works Podcast: Dana Tai Soon Burgess, dancer and choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company at National Portrait Gallery Burgess: Art vs. Entertainment Dana Tai Soon Burgess and Company: Dancing Through the Asian American Experience (Interview) Dana in his kitchen Living people Artists from Santa Fe, New Mexico American male dancers American choreographers American people of Korean descent 1968 births People from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California Columbian College of Arts