It was a day of freedom and fun for guests of the Greenbelt Rec Center and the Greenbelt Cinema. Based on the concept of "Dancing Joy," instructors taught traditional Middle Eastern Belly dance, and then 1930s-40s "Swing Dance" sponsored by the Rec Center itself. Then, some 80 people enjoyed a free screening of Dancing Joy at the Greenbelt Cinema, with a panel discussion after of the three primary filmmakers: Director Lan T. Lee, Editor Mie Smith and Producer Kate Tsubata. Th

Dancing Joy is now being shown in the museum dedicated to the moment when prisoners and their captors celebrated peace by playing Beethoven's stirring Symphony No. 9 in Bando internment camp in 1918, at the end of World War 1. The Naruto German House museum memorializes two amazing stories, both which have left a deep and powerful impact on the awareness of the people of Japan and Germany. When German soldiers were captured by Japanese forces in WWI, they were sent to the Ban