"Within These Walls" by Lenora Lee Dance at Zellerbach Playhouse

Within These Walls is an award-winning multimedia experience that integrates contemporary dance with poetry, original music, and video projection. Inspired by the experiences of the estimated 170,000 Chinese immigrants who were processed, detained, and/or interrogated at the U.S. Immigration Station on Angel Island between 1910 to 1940, Within These Walls serves as a meditation on healing, resilience, and compassion.

Lenora Lee Dance premiered Within These Walls in 2017 as a site-specific performance at the Angel Island Immigration Station. The company received a Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Production from the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee. The UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies is re-staging the work with a cast of 14 students for Berkeley Dance Project, an annual dance concert.