Lenora Lee Dance, with Asian Improv aRts, API Cultural Center & Chinese Historical Society of America, presents "Within These Walls" (2017) and the World Premiere of its sequel, "Dreams of Flight," both site-responsive, immersive, multimedia dance works created for and performed at the U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island State Park in the San Francisco Bay. Inspired by experiences of those detained and processed at the Station, "Within These Walls" and "Dreams of Flight" transform and animate the historic barracks into sites for remembrance of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, speaking to the power of individuals and communities to transcend.
Audiences will travel by ferry to Angel Island, walk or shuttle to the Immigration Station, follow the performers along the grounds of the Station, and journey within a labyrinth of rooms throughout the historic two-story Immigration Center buildings, experiencing intimate interactive environments, a tapestry of movement, sound, poetry and film integrated on the surfaces inside and outside the building and within the walls.
"These performances are dedicated to the 170,000 Chinese who were detained, interrogated and processed at the Station between 1910-1940 as a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which tore families apart and resulted in a mass incarceration experience that forever stamps the experience of Chinese in America," explains Lenora Lee, Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance. She adds, "Three of my grandparents were processed on Angel Island and through my research I found many stories like theirs of being separated, imprisoned and kept in a kind of limbo while their status was being determined by authorities tasked with keeping Chinese out of the U.S."
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Audiences will travel by ferry to Angel Island, walk or shuttle to the Immigration Station, follow the performers along the grounds of the Station, and journey within a labyrinth of rooms throughout the historic two-story Immigration Center buildings, experiencing intimate interactive environments, a tapestry of movement, sound, poetry and film integrated on the surfaces inside and outside the building and within the walls.
"These performances are dedicated to the 170,000 Chinese who were detained, interrogated and processed at the Station between 1910-1940 as a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which tore families apart and resulted in a mass incarceration experience that forever stamps the experience of Chinese in America," explains Lenora Lee, Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance. She adds, "Three of my grandparents were processed on Angel Island and through my research I found many stories like theirs of being separated, imprisoned and kept in a kind of limbo while their status was being determined by authorities tasked with keeping Chinese out of the U.S."
Lenora Lee Dance, with Asian Improv aRts, API Cultural Center & Chinese Historical Society of America, presents "Within These Walls" (2017) and the World Premiere of its sequel, "Dreams of Flight," both site-responsive, immersive, multimedia dance works created for and performed at the U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island State Park in the San Francisco Bay. Inspired by experiences of those detained and processed at the Station, "Within These Walls" and "Dreams of Flight" transform and animate the historic barracks into sites for remembrance of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, speaking to the power of individuals and communities to transcend.
Audiences will travel by ferry to Angel Island, walk or shuttle to the Immigration Station, follow the performers along the grounds of the Station, and journey within a labyrinth of rooms throughout the historic two-story Immigration Center buildings, experiencing intimate interactive environments, a tapestry of movement, sound, poetry and film integrated on the surfaces inside and outside the building and within the walls.
"These performances are dedicated to the 170,000 Chinese who were detained, interrogated and processed at the Station between 1910-1940 as a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which tore families apart and resulted in a mass incarceration experience that forever stamps the experience of Chinese in America," explains Lenora Lee, Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance. She adds, "Three of my grandparents were processed on Angel Island and through my research I found many stories like theirs of being separated, imprisoned and kept in a kind of limbo while their status was being determined by authorities tasked with keeping Chinese out of the U.S."
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Audiences will travel by ferry to Angel Island, walk or shuttle to the Immigration Station, follow the performers along the grounds of the Station, and journey within a labyrinth of rooms throughout the historic two-story Immigration Center buildings, experiencing intimate interactive environments, a tapestry of movement, sound, poetry and film integrated on the surfaces inside and outside the building and within the walls.
"These performances are dedicated to the 170,000 Chinese who were detained, interrogated and processed at the Station between 1910-1940 as a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act, which tore families apart and resulted in a mass incarceration experience that forever stamps the experience of Chinese in America," explains Lenora Lee, Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance. She adds, "Three of my grandparents were processed on Angel Island and through my research I found many stories like theirs of being separated, imprisoned and kept in a kind of limbo while their status was being determined by authorities tasked with keeping Chinese out of the U.S."
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Angel Island, Tiburon, CA 94920
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