AADF2025 Collaborative Residency: Dance, Spoken Word & Community is a 5-month cohort residency for early to mid-career AAPI choreographers that runs April - August 2025. Resident choreographers are paired with AAPI spoken word artists for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration, creating joint work through community engagement and storytelling. Together, resident choreographers and spoken word artists explore the complexities of identity, migration, and resistance within the AAPI diaspora, which culminates in a final residency showcase at AADF2025: Becoming Asian American. Through the powerful mediums of poetry and movement, the artists reflect and amplify AAPI stories of shared struggles, celebrate cultural heritage, and foster collective resilience.