Landed, from Li Chiao-Ping Dance

Li Chiao-Ping Dance (LCPD) presents Landed, a collaboration between choreographer Li Chiao-Ping and visual artist Douglas Rosenberg.

May 6, 1882 - President Chester A. Arthur signs the Chinese Exclusion Act, one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, to that date. January 21, 1910 -November 5, 1940 - Chinese immigrants are detained, interred and interrogated at Angel Island Station. June, 1939 - the German ocean liner St. Louis and its 937 passengers, almost all Jewish, are turned away from the port of Miami, forcing the ship to return to Europe; more than a quarter died in the Holocaust. January 27, 2017 - President Donald Trump signs an executive order banning all Muslim refugees from entering the United States. He signs it on the International Holocaust Day of Remembrance.

Landed, which focuses on Angel Island, is a response to these catastrophic events. The work interweaves spoken text with Rosenberg's acclaimed, poignant visual designs and Li's signature, inventive movement, to engage stories of immigrants from the late 1800s to the present. Li, a first-generation Chinese-American, folds in personal history as well as stories about incarcerations at Angel Island, internment camps, refugee camps, and other stories of border crossings.

Landed is an evening-length, multimedia dance work that investigates the immigrant experience through stories, personal and historical, related to each cast member. This work blends together the abstract and symbolic, with physical expression and spoken work, to form a distillation of journeys, hope, loss, pain, and resilience.

Feedback from audience members has been overwhelmingly positive, with many people saying how touched they were and that they were moved to tears. Others have expressed how the show lingered with them for a long time after.

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