Atlanta Dance Company Explores Life Inside Internment Camps
Lynn Lane / Courtesy of Core Dance
2017 marks 75 years since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the executive order authorizing the creation of Japanese-American internment camps. After the order, roughly 120,000 Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes and forced to live with little but a bed, a few crates and whatever they could carry with them from their homes.
Internment camps and the experiences Japanese-Americans had inside of them are the subjects of Core Dance’s recent production. Artistic Director Sue Schroeder learned more about the history of the camps during a residency in Arkansas, where two of the camps were located.
“What this really is, is a way to have empathy to experience what it would have been like to be in that position,” Schroeder said in an interview with Lois Reitzes.
The production, called “Life Interrupted,” has its Atlanta premiere Feb. 23-26 at 7 Stages Theatre in Little Five Points. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday.
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